1 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-2?
2 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions,
3 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux
6 o Major features (fallback directory list):
7 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
8 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
9 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
11 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
12 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
13 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
14 blocking, but did not tell NSS about the fact, which in turn could
15 lead to unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
18 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
20 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
21 but broke tor on previous versions of glibc. We now apply the
22 correct seccomp rule according to the running glibc version. Patch
23 from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
24 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
25 according to the running glibc version. The opendir function
26 either uses open or openat but the current code does not
27 differenciate between opendir and open calls. This adds a new
28 seccomp sandbox rule for opendir. This fixes crashes when
29 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
30 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
33 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
34 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
35 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
36 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
37 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
38 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
42 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
43 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
44 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
47 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
48 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
49 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
50 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
51 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
52 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
55 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09
56 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few
57 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability,
58 compatibility, and portability issues.
60 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
61 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
62 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
63 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
64 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
65 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
66 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
69 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security):
70 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
71 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
72 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
75 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
76 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
77 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
78 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
79 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
82 o Minor features (directory authority):
83 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
84 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
85 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
86 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
87 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
89 o Minor features (entry guards):
90 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
93 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
94 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
95 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
96 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
97 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
98 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
99 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
101 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows):
102 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
103 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
105 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client):
106 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
107 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
109 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client):
110 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
111 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
114 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
115 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
116 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
118 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
119 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
120 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
121 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
123 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
124 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
125 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
126 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
128 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
129 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
130 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
133 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
134 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
137 o Removed features (IPv6, revert):
138 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort:
139 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no
140 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so
141 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS
142 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets
143 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users.
144 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
147 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16
148 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves
149 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that
150 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous
151 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6
152 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
154 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5.
156 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
157 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
158 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
159 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
160 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
161 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
162 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
163 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
164 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
165 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
167 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
168 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
169 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
170 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
171 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
172 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
173 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
175 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
177 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
178 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
179 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
180 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
182 o Major features (v3 onion services):
183 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
184 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
187 o Minor feature (developer tools):
188 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
189 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
191 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5):
192 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
193 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
194 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
197 o Minor feature (onion service v3):
198 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
199 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
201 o Minor feature (python scripts):
202 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
203 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
204 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
205 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
207 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
208 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
209 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
210 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
211 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
213 o Minor features (code safety):
214 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
215 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
216 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
217 Resolves issue 33788.
219 o Minor features (compilation size):
220 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
221 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
223 o Minor features (continuous integration):
224 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
225 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
226 Resolves ticket 32143.
228 o Minor features (control port):
229 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
230 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
231 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
232 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
234 o Minor features (developer tooling):
235 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
236 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
237 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
238 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
239 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
241 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
242 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
243 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
244 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
246 o Minor features (directory):
247 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
248 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
249 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
252 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
253 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
254 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
256 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
257 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
260 o Minor features (logging):
261 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
262 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
264 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
265 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
266 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
267 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
268 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
269 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
270 up from ticket 33316.
272 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
273 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
274 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
275 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
277 o Minor features (windows):
278 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
279 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
281 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3):
282 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
283 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
284 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
285 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
287 o Minor bugfix (refactoring):
288 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
289 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
290 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
292 o Minor bugfixes (client performance):
293 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
294 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
295 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
298 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
299 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
300 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
301 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
302 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
303 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
305 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
306 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
307 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
308 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
310 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
311 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
312 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
313 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
314 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
316 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
317 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
318 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
320 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
321 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
322 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
323 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
324 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
325 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
326 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
327 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
328 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
329 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
331 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss):
332 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
333 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
334 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
336 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
337 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
338 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
339 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
340 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
342 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
343 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
344 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
346 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
347 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
348 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
350 o Minor bugfixes (manual page):
351 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
352 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
354 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
355 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
356 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
359 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
360 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
361 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
363 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
364 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
365 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
367 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
368 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
369 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
372 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
373 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
374 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
375 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
377 o Code simplification and refactoring:
378 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
379 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
380 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
381 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
382 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
383 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
384 isolated in subsystems of their own.
385 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
386 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
387 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
388 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
390 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
391 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
392 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
393 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
397 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
398 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
399 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
400 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
404 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
405 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
406 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
407 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
408 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
409 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
410 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
413 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
414 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
415 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
416 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
417 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
418 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
419 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
420 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
422 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
423 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
425 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
426 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
427 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
428 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
429 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
430 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
431 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
432 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
433 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
434 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
435 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
436 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
438 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service):
439 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
440 code. Closes ticket 33014.
442 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
443 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
444 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
446 o Documentation (manual page):
447 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
448 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
449 Google Season of Docs.
450 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
451 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
452 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
453 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
454 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
455 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
456 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
460 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
461 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
462 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
463 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
464 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
465 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
468 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
469 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
470 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
471 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
472 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
474 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
475 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
476 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
479 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
480 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
482 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
483 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
484 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
485 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
486 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
487 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
490 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
491 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
492 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
493 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
494 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
495 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
499 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
500 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
501 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
502 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
504 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
505 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
506 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
507 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
508 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
509 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
511 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
512 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
513 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
514 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
515 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
517 o Minor features (testing):
518 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
519 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
520 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
521 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
522 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
524 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
525 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
526 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
527 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
529 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
530 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
531 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
532 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
534 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
535 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
536 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
537 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
539 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
540 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
541 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
542 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
543 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
544 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
545 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
546 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
547 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
548 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
549 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
551 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
552 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
553 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
554 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
555 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
556 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
558 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
559 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
560 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
561 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
562 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
563 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
566 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
567 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
568 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
569 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
570 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
571 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
572 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
573 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
575 o Code simplification and refactoring:
576 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
577 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
580 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
581 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
582 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
583 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
584 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
588 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
589 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
590 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
591 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
592 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
593 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
594 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
598 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
599 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
600 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
601 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
602 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
603 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
604 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
605 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
606 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
607 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
608 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
611 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
612 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
613 as soon as packages are available.
615 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
616 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
617 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
618 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
619 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
620 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
621 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
622 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
623 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
625 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
626 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
627 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
628 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
629 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
631 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
632 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
633 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
634 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
635 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
637 o Minor features (diagnostic):
638 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
639 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
640 code. Closes ticket 33290.
642 o Minor features (directory authorities):
643 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
644 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
645 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
647 o Minor features (usability):
648 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
649 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
650 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
652 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
653 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
654 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
655 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
658 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
659 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
660 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
661 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
662 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
664 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
665 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
668 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
669 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
670 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
671 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
674 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
675 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
676 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
677 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
680 o Documentation (manpage):
681 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
682 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
683 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
684 Google Season of Docs.
685 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
686 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
688 o Testing (Travis CI):
689 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
690 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
691 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
693 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
694 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
695 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
696 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
697 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
700 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
701 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
702 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
703 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
704 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
705 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
706 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
707 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
708 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
709 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
710 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
711 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
713 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
714 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
715 as soon as packages are available.
717 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
718 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
719 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
720 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
721 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
722 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
723 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
724 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
725 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
727 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
728 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
729 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
730 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
731 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
733 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
734 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
735 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
736 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
737 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
739 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
740 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
741 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
744 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
745 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
746 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
748 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
749 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
750 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
751 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
752 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
755 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
756 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
757 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
758 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
761 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
762 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
763 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
764 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
766 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
767 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
768 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
769 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
771 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
772 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
773 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
774 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
775 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
778 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
779 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
780 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
781 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
782 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
783 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
784 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
785 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
786 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
787 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
788 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
789 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
791 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
792 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
793 as soon as packages are available.
795 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
796 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
797 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
798 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
799 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
800 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
801 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
802 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
803 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
805 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
806 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
807 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
808 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
809 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
811 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
812 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
813 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
815 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
816 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
817 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
818 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
819 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
822 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
823 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
824 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
825 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
828 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
829 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
830 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
831 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
833 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
834 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
835 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
836 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
838 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
839 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
840 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
841 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
842 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
845 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
846 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
847 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
848 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
849 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
850 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
851 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
852 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
853 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
854 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
855 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
858 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
859 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
860 as soon as packages are available.
862 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
863 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
864 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
865 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
866 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
867 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
868 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
869 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
870 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
872 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
873 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
874 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
875 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
876 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
877 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
878 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
879 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
882 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
883 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
884 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
887 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
888 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
889 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
891 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
892 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
893 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
894 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
895 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
897 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
898 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
899 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
900 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
901 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
904 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
905 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
906 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
907 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
910 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
911 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
912 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
913 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
915 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
916 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
917 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
918 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
920 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
921 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
922 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
924 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
925 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
927 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
928 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
929 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
930 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
932 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
933 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
934 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
935 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
938 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
939 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
940 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
941 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
944 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
945 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
946 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
947 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
949 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
950 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
951 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
952 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
954 o Minor features (continuous integration):
955 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
956 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
957 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
958 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
961 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
962 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
963 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
965 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
966 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
967 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
968 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
970 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
971 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
972 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
974 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
975 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
976 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
977 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
978 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
980 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
981 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
982 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
983 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
985 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
986 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
987 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
988 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
990 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
991 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
992 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
993 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
996 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
997 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
998 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
999 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1001 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
1002 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
1003 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
1004 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1006 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
1007 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
1008 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
1009 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
1010 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
1012 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
1013 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
1014 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
1016 o Documentation (manpage):
1017 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
1018 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
1019 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
1022 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
1023 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
1024 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
1025 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
1026 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
1027 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
1029 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1030 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
1031 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
1032 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
1033 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
1034 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
1035 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
1036 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1038 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
1039 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
1040 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
1042 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1043 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
1044 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
1045 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1047 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1048 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
1049 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
1050 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1052 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1053 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
1054 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
1055 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1056 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
1057 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
1060 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1061 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
1062 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1064 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1065 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
1066 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
1067 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
1068 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
1069 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
1070 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
1071 Closes ticket 32629.
1073 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1074 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
1077 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
1078 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
1079 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
1080 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
1081 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
1082 current version of 0.4.1.x.
1084 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1085 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
1086 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
1087 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
1088 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
1089 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
1090 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
1091 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1093 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
1094 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
1095 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
1097 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
1098 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
1099 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
1100 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
1101 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1103 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1104 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
1105 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1107 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1108 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
1109 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
1110 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
1111 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
1112 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
1113 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
1114 Closes ticket 32629.
1116 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
1117 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
1120 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
1121 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
1122 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
1123 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
1124 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
1125 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
1126 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
1127 write better code in the future.
1129 o New system requirements:
1130 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
1131 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
1132 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
1134 o Major features (build system):
1135 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
1136 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
1137 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
1138 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
1139 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
1141 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
1142 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
1143 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
1144 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
1145 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1147 o Major features (onion service, controller):
1148 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
1149 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
1150 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
1151 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
1153 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
1154 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
1155 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
1156 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
1158 o Major features (proxy):
1159 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
1160 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
1161 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
1162 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
1163 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
1164 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
1166 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
1167 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
1168 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
1169 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
1170 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
1171 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
1172 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
1173 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1175 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
1176 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
1177 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
1179 o Major bugfixes (networking):
1180 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
1181 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
1182 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1184 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
1185 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
1186 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
1187 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
1188 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
1189 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1191 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
1192 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
1193 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
1195 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
1196 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
1197 message. Closes ticket 31371.
1199 o Minor features (configuration validation):
1200 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
1201 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
1202 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
1203 Closes ticket 31241.
1205 o Minor features (configuration):
1206 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
1207 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
1209 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
1210 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
1211 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
1212 Implements ticket 32404.
1214 o Minor features (controller):
1215 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
1216 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
1217 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
1219 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
1220 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
1221 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
1222 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
1224 o Minor features (defense in depth):
1225 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
1226 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
1229 o Minor features (developer tooling):
1230 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
1231 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
1232 Closes ticket 32772.
1234 o Minor features (developer tools):
1235 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
1236 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
1237 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
1238 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
1239 target. Closes ticket 31919.
1240 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
1241 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
1242 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
1244 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
1245 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
1246 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
1247 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
1249 o Minor features (Doxygen):
1250 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
1251 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
1252 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
1254 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
1255 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
1256 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
1257 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
1258 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
1259 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
1260 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
1261 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
1263 o Minor features (git scripts):
1264 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
1265 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
1266 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
1267 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
1268 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
1269 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
1270 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
1271 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
1272 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
1273 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
1274 Closes ticket 32216.
1275 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
1276 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
1277 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
1278 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
1280 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
1281 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
1282 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
1283 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
1284 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
1285 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
1287 o Minor features (portability, android):
1288 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
1289 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
1290 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
1292 o Minor features (relay modularity):
1293 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
1294 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
1295 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
1296 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
1297 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
1298 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
1299 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
1301 o Minor features (relay):
1302 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
1303 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
1305 o Minor features (release tools):
1306 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
1307 Closes ticket 32704.
1309 o Minor features (testing):
1310 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
1311 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
1312 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
1313 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
1314 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
1315 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
1318 o Minor features (tests, Android):
1319 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
1320 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
1321 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
1323 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1324 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
1325 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
1327 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
1328 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
1329 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
1331 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
1332 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
1333 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
1334 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1336 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1337 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
1338 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
1339 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
1340 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
1341 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
1342 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
1343 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
1344 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
1345 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
1346 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1347 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
1348 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
1349 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
1350 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1352 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1353 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
1354 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
1357 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
1358 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
1359 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
1360 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1362 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
1363 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
1364 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
1366 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
1367 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
1368 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
1369 Closes ticket 32213.
1370 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
1371 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
1372 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1374 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
1375 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
1376 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
1377 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
1378 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
1381 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
1382 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
1384 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
1385 Closes ticket 32216.
1387 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
1388 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
1389 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
1390 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
1393 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
1394 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
1395 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
1396 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1398 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
1399 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
1400 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
1401 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
1402 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
1405 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
1406 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
1407 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
1408 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
1409 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
1410 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1412 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1413 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
1414 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
1415 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
1416 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1418 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
1419 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
1420 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1422 o Minor bugfixes (test):
1423 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
1424 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
1425 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
1428 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1429 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
1430 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1431 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
1432 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
1433 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1434 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
1435 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
1438 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1439 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
1440 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
1441 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
1442 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
1443 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1445 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
1446 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
1447 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1449 o Deprecated features:
1450 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
1451 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
1452 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
1456 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
1457 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
1458 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
1459 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
1460 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
1461 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
1462 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
1463 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
1465 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
1466 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
1469 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
1470 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
1471 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
1472 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
1473 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
1474 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
1476 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
1477 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
1478 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
1479 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
1480 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
1483 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
1484 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
1486 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
1487 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
1488 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
1489 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
1490 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
1491 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
1492 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
1493 Closes ticket 32629.
1494 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
1496 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
1497 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
1498 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
1500 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
1501 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
1502 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
1504 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
1505 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
1506 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
1507 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
1508 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
1509 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
1510 Solves part of ticket 32339.
1511 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
1512 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
1513 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
1514 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
1515 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
1516 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
1517 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
1518 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
1519 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
1520 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
1522 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
1523 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
1525 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
1526 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
1527 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
1529 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
1530 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
1531 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
1532 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
1533 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
1534 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
1536 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
1537 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
1538 Closes ticket 32163.
1539 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
1541 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
1543 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
1544 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
1545 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
1546 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
1547 Closes ticket 32304.
1548 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
1549 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
1550 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
1551 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
1552 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
1555 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
1556 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
1558 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
1561 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
1562 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
1563 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
1564 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
1565 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
1566 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
1567 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
1568 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
1570 o Documentation (manpage):
1571 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
1573 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
1575 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
1576 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
1577 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
1579 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
1580 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
1581 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
1583 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
1584 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
1587 o Testing (continuous integration):
1588 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
1591 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
1592 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
1593 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
1594 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
1595 bugs present in previous series.
1597 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
1598 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
1599 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
1600 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
1602 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
1603 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
1604 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
1605 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
1607 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
1608 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1610 o Minor features (geoip):
1611 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1612 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1615 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
1616 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
1617 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
1618 Closes ticket 32500.
1621 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
1622 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
1623 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
1624 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
1626 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1627 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
1628 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
1629 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
1631 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1632 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
1633 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
1634 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1636 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1637 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
1638 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
1639 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
1640 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
1641 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
1642 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
1643 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1645 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1646 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
1647 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
1648 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
1649 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1651 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1652 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
1653 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
1654 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
1655 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
1658 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1659 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1660 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1661 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1663 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1664 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1665 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1667 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1668 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
1669 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1671 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1672 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1673 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1674 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1675 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1676 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1678 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
1679 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1680 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1681 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1683 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1684 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
1685 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
1686 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1687 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
1688 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
1689 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1690 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
1691 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
1692 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
1695 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1696 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
1697 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1698 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
1699 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1700 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
1701 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
1702 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
1703 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1705 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1706 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
1707 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
1708 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1710 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1711 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
1712 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
1713 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
1714 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
1717 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1718 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
1719 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
1721 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1722 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
1723 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
1725 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
1726 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
1727 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1729 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1730 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
1731 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
1732 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1734 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1735 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
1736 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
1737 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
1738 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1740 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1741 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
1742 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1744 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1745 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
1746 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
1749 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1750 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
1751 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
1753 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1754 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
1755 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
1756 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
1758 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
1759 Closes ticket 31859.
1760 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
1761 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
1763 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1764 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
1765 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
1766 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
1767 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
1768 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
1769 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
1770 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
1771 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
1772 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
1774 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1775 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
1776 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
1777 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
1778 Closes ticket 32500.
1781 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
1782 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
1783 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
1784 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
1785 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
1787 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
1788 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
1789 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
1790 support until 1 Feb 2022.
1792 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
1793 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
1796 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1797 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
1798 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
1799 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
1800 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
1801 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
1802 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
1803 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
1804 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
1805 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
1806 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1808 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1809 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
1810 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
1811 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
1812 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
1813 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1815 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1816 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
1817 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
1818 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
1819 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
1822 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1823 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
1824 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
1825 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
1826 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
1828 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
1829 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
1830 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
1831 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
1834 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1835 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
1836 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
1837 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
1838 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
1839 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
1840 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
1841 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1843 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1844 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
1845 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
1846 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
1847 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1849 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1850 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
1851 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
1852 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
1853 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
1856 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1857 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
1858 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
1860 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1861 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
1862 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
1865 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1866 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
1867 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
1869 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1870 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1871 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1872 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1874 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1875 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
1876 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
1877 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
1878 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
1880 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1881 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1882 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1884 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1885 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
1886 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
1889 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1890 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
1891 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1893 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1894 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
1895 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1897 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1898 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
1899 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1901 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1902 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
1903 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
1906 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1907 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1908 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1909 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1910 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1911 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1913 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1914 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
1915 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
1916 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
1917 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1919 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1920 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
1921 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
1924 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1925 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
1926 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1928 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1929 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
1930 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
1931 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1933 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1934 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
1935 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
1936 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1938 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1939 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
1940 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
1941 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
1943 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
1944 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1945 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1946 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1948 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1949 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
1950 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1951 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
1952 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1953 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
1954 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1956 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1957 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
1958 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
1959 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
1961 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1962 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
1963 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
1964 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1966 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1967 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
1968 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
1971 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1972 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
1973 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
1974 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1975 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
1976 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
1977 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1979 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1980 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
1981 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
1982 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
1985 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1986 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
1987 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
1988 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
1989 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1991 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1992 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
1993 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
1994 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
1995 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1997 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1998 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
1999 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2002 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2003 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
2004 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
2005 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
2006 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2008 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2009 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
2010 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
2011 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2013 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2014 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
2015 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
2016 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
2017 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
2020 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2021 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
2022 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
2025 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2026 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
2027 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
2028 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2030 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2031 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
2032 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
2033 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
2035 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2036 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
2037 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
2038 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2040 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2041 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
2042 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
2043 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
2046 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2047 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
2048 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
2049 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
2050 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
2051 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
2054 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2055 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
2056 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
2058 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
2059 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
2060 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2062 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2063 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2064 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2065 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2067 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2068 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2069 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2071 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2072 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2073 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2074 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2075 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2077 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2078 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2079 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2082 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2083 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2084 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2085 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2086 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2087 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2088 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2089 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2090 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2091 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2093 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2094 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2095 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2096 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2098 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2099 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
2100 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
2101 Resolves issue 29702.
2103 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2104 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
2106 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2107 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
2108 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
2109 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
2112 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2113 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2114 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2115 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2117 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2118 Closes ticket 31859.
2119 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2120 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2122 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2123 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2124 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2125 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2126 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2127 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2128 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2129 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2130 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2131 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2133 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2134 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
2135 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
2136 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
2137 Closes ticket 32500.
2139 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
2140 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
2141 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
2144 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
2145 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
2148 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2149 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
2150 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
2151 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
2152 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
2153 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
2154 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
2155 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
2156 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
2157 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
2158 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2160 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2161 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2162 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
2163 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
2164 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
2165 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2167 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2168 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
2169 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
2170 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
2171 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
2172 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2174 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2175 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
2176 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
2177 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
2178 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
2181 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2182 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
2183 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
2184 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
2185 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
2187 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
2188 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
2189 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
2190 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
2193 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2194 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2195 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2196 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2197 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2199 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2200 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2201 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2202 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2203 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2206 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2207 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
2208 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
2209 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
2210 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
2211 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
2212 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
2213 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2215 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2216 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
2217 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
2218 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
2219 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
2222 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2223 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
2224 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
2226 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2227 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
2228 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
2231 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
2232 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
2233 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
2234 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
2236 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2237 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
2238 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
2241 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2242 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
2243 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
2245 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2246 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2247 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2248 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2250 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2251 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
2252 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
2253 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
2254 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
2256 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2257 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2258 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
2260 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2261 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
2262 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
2263 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
2265 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2266 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2267 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2270 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2271 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
2272 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
2273 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
2274 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
2275 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
2276 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
2277 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
2278 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
2279 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
2280 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
2281 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
2282 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
2285 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2286 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
2287 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
2288 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
2289 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
2291 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
2292 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
2293 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2295 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2296 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
2297 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2299 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2300 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
2301 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2303 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2304 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
2305 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
2308 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2309 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
2310 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2312 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2313 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
2314 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
2315 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
2316 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
2317 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2319 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2320 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
2321 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
2322 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
2323 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2325 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2326 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
2327 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
2330 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
2331 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
2332 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
2334 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2335 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
2336 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2338 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2339 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
2340 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
2341 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2343 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2344 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
2345 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
2346 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2348 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2349 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
2350 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
2351 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
2353 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
2354 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
2355 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
2356 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2358 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2359 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
2360 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2361 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
2362 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2363 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
2364 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2366 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2367 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
2368 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
2369 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
2371 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
2372 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
2373 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
2374 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2376 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2377 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
2378 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
2381 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2382 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
2383 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
2384 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2385 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
2386 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
2387 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2389 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2390 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2391 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2392 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
2395 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2396 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
2397 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
2398 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
2399 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2401 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
2402 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
2403 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2405 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2406 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
2407 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
2408 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
2409 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
2410 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
2411 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
2412 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
2413 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
2414 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
2415 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2417 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2418 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
2419 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
2420 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
2421 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
2423 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2424 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
2425 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2428 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2429 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
2430 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
2431 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
2432 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2434 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2435 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
2436 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
2437 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2439 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2440 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
2441 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
2442 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
2443 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
2446 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2447 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
2448 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
2451 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
2452 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
2453 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
2454 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2456 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2457 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
2458 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
2459 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2461 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2462 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
2463 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2465 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2466 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
2467 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
2468 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2470 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2471 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
2472 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
2473 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
2476 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2477 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
2478 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
2479 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
2480 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
2481 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
2484 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
2485 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2486 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2487 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2489 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
2490 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
2491 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2493 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2494 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2495 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2497 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2498 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
2499 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
2500 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
2501 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
2502 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
2503 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
2505 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2506 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
2507 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
2510 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2511 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
2512 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
2513 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
2514 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
2515 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
2516 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
2517 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2519 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
2520 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
2521 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
2522 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2523 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
2524 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
2527 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2528 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2529 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2530 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2531 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2533 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
2534 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
2535 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
2536 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
2537 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
2538 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
2539 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
2540 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2542 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2543 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2544 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2547 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2548 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2549 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2550 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2551 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2552 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2553 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2554 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2555 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2556 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2558 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
2559 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
2560 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
2561 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
2562 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
2563 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2565 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2566 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2567 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2568 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2570 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
2571 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
2572 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
2573 Resolves issue 29702.
2575 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
2576 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
2578 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
2579 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
2580 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
2581 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
2584 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
2585 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2586 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2587 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2589 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2590 Closes ticket 31859.
2591 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2592 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2594 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
2595 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2596 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2597 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2598 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2599 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2600 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2601 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2602 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2603 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2605 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
2606 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
2607 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
2608 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
2609 Closes ticket 32500.
2611 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
2612 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
2613 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
2614 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
2616 o Minor features (build system):
2617 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
2618 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
2620 o Minor features (geoip):
2621 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2622 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
2624 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
2625 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
2626 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
2627 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
2628 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
2629 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2631 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
2632 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
2633 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2635 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2636 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
2637 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2639 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
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 (directory):
2646 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
2647 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
2648 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
2649 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2651 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
2652 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
2653 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2654 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
2655 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2657 o Testing (continuous integration):
2658 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
2659 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
2660 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
2661 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
2662 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
2663 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
2664 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
2665 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
2666 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
2669 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
2670 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
2671 from earlier versions of Tor.
2673 o Major bugfixes (relay):
2674 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
2675 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
2676 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
2677 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
2678 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
2679 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
2680 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2682 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2683 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
2684 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
2685 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
2686 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
2689 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
2690 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
2691 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
2692 Closes ticket 29669.
2694 o Minor features (testing):
2695 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
2696 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
2697 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
2698 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
2700 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
2701 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
2702 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
2703 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
2705 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
2706 Closes ticket 31859.
2707 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
2708 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
2710 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2711 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
2712 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2713 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
2715 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
2716 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2717 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
2718 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
2719 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2721 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
2722 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
2723 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
2724 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2726 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
2727 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
2728 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2730 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
2731 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
2732 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
2733 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
2734 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
2737 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
2738 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
2739 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
2741 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
2742 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
2743 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2745 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2746 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
2747 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
2749 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
2750 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
2751 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
2752 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2754 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
2755 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
2756 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
2759 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2760 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
2761 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2762 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
2763 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
2765 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
2766 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
2767 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
2768 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2771 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
2772 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2773 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
2774 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
2775 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
2776 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
2779 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
2780 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
2781 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
2782 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
2784 o Major features (directory authorities):
2785 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
2786 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
2787 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
2789 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
2790 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
2791 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
2792 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2794 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
2795 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
2796 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
2797 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
2798 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2800 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
2801 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
2802 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
2803 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
2804 Closes ticket 31779.
2806 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2807 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
2808 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
2809 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
2811 o Minor features (geoip):
2812 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2813 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
2815 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
2816 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
2817 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
2818 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
2819 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
2820 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
2821 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
2823 o Minor features (onion services v3):
2824 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
2825 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
2828 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
2829 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
2830 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2832 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
2833 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
2834 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
2835 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2837 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2838 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
2839 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
2840 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2842 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2843 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
2844 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2845 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
2846 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2847 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
2848 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
2849 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
2850 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2851 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
2852 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2854 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
2855 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
2856 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
2857 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2859 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
2860 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
2861 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
2864 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
2865 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
2866 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
2868 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2869 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
2870 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
2871 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2873 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
2874 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
2875 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2877 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2878 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
2879 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
2880 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
2881 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
2882 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
2883 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
2885 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
2889 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
2890 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
2892 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
2893 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
2894 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
2895 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
2896 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
2897 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
2900 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
2901 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
2902 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
2903 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
2906 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2907 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
2908 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
2909 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
2910 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2911 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
2912 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
2913 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
2914 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2916 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2917 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2918 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2921 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2922 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
2923 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2925 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2926 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
2927 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
2928 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
2929 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
2931 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
2932 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
2933 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2935 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2936 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
2937 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
2938 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2940 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2941 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2942 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2943 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
2946 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2947 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
2948 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
2949 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
2950 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2952 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2953 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
2954 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2957 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2958 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2959 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2961 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2962 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2963 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2964 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2965 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2966 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2968 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2969 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2970 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
2971 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
2972 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
2973 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2974 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2975 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2976 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2977 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2979 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2980 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2981 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2982 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2985 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
2986 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
2987 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
2988 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
2989 Tor's stability and ease of development.
2991 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
2992 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
2993 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
2994 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
2995 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
2996 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
2999 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
3000 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3001 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
3002 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
3003 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
3004 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
3007 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
3008 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
3009 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
3010 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
3011 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3012 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
3013 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
3014 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
3015 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3017 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
3018 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
3019 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
3020 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
3021 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
3022 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
3023 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
3024 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
3025 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
3026 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
3027 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
3028 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
3029 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
3030 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
3031 files. Closes ticket 31175.
3033 o Minor features (build system):
3034 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
3035 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
3036 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
3038 o Minor features (compilation):
3039 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
3040 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
3041 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
3043 o Minor features (configuration):
3044 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
3045 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
3046 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
3047 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
3049 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3050 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
3051 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
3052 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
3054 o Minor features (debugging):
3055 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
3056 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
3057 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
3058 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
3060 o Minor features (git hooks):
3061 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
3062 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
3063 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
3064 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
3065 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
3067 o Minor features (git scripts):
3068 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
3069 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
3070 push. Closes ticket 31314.
3071 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
3072 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
3073 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
3074 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
3075 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
3076 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
3077 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
3078 Closes ticket 31314.
3079 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
3080 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
3081 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
3082 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
3083 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
3084 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
3085 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
3086 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
3087 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
3089 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
3090 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
3091 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
3094 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
3095 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
3096 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
3098 o Minor features (onion service v3):
3099 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
3100 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
3102 o Minor features (onion service):
3103 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
3104 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
3105 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
3106 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
3108 o Minor features (stem tests):
3109 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3110 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3113 o Minor features (testing):
3114 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
3115 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
3116 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
3117 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
3118 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
3119 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
3120 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
3121 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
3122 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
3123 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
3124 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
3126 o Minor features (token bucket):
3127 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
3128 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
3130 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
3131 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
3132 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
3133 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3134 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
3135 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
3136 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
3137 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
3140 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3141 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
3142 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
3144 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
3145 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
3146 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
3147 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
3148 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
3149 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
3151 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3152 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
3153 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
3154 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
3155 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
3157 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
3158 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
3159 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3161 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3162 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
3163 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
3164 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
3166 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
3167 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
3168 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
3169 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
3170 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
3171 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
3172 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
3173 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
3174 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
3175 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3177 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
3178 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
3179 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
3182 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3183 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
3184 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3186 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
3187 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
3188 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
3189 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3190 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
3191 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
3192 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3193 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
3194 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
3195 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
3198 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
3199 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
3200 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
3201 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
3204 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
3205 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
3206 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
3207 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3209 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3210 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
3211 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
3212 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3213 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
3214 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3215 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
3216 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
3217 Closes ticket 31678.
3219 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
3220 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
3221 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
3222 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
3223 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3225 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
3226 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
3227 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
3228 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
3229 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3230 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
3231 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
3232 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
3233 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
3236 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3237 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
3238 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
3240 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
3241 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
3242 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
3244 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
3245 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
3246 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
3249 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
3250 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
3251 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
3252 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
3253 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
3254 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
3256 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
3257 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
3258 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
3259 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
3262 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
3263 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
3264 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
3265 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
3266 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3268 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3269 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
3270 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
3271 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
3272 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
3273 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3275 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
3276 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
3277 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
3278 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3280 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
3281 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
3282 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3283 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
3284 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3286 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
3287 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
3288 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
3289 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3291 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
3292 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
3293 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
3294 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
3295 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3297 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
3298 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
3299 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
3300 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
3301 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
3304 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3305 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
3306 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
3309 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
3310 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3311 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
3312 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
3313 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
3314 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3316 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
3317 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
3318 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
3319 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
3320 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
3321 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3322 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
3323 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
3324 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
3325 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3328 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
3329 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
3330 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
3331 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
3332 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
3333 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
3334 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
3337 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
3338 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
3339 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
3340 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
3341 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
3342 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
3344 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
3348 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
3349 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
3350 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
3351 Closes ticket 30967.
3353 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
3354 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
3355 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
3356 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
3357 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
3358 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
3359 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
3360 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
3361 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
3362 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
3363 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
3364 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
3365 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
3366 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
3367 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
3368 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
3370 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
3371 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
3372 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
3373 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
3374 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
3375 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
3376 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
3377 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
3378 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
3379 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
3381 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
3382 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
3383 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
3385 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
3386 Closes ticket 30806.
3387 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
3388 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
3391 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
3392 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
3393 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
3395 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
3396 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
3397 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3400 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
3401 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
3402 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
3403 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
3404 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
3405 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
3406 bugfixes on earlier versions.
3408 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
3409 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
3410 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3411 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3413 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3414 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3416 o Directory authority changes:
3417 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
3420 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
3421 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
3422 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
3423 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
3425 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
3426 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
3427 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
3428 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
3429 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
3430 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
3431 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3433 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
3434 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
3435 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
3436 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3438 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
3439 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
3440 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
3441 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
3442 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3444 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
3445 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
3446 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
3447 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
3448 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
3449 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
3451 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
3452 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
3453 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
3456 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3457 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
3458 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3460 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
3461 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
3462 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
3465 o Testing (continuous integration):
3466 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
3467 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
3468 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
3472 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
3473 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
3474 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
3475 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
3477 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
3478 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3479 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
3480 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
3481 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
3482 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3484 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3485 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
3486 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
3488 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
3489 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
3490 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
3491 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
3492 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
3494 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
3495 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
3496 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
3498 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
3499 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
3500 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3502 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
3503 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
3504 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
3505 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3507 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3508 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
3509 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
3512 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
3513 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
3514 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
3517 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3518 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
3519 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
3523 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
3524 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
3525 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
3527 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
3528 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
3529 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
3530 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
3531 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3534 o Minor features (geoip):
3535 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3536 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
3538 o Minor features (logging):
3539 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
3540 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
3541 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
3542 Closes ticket 30686.
3544 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
3545 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
3546 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3548 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3549 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
3550 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3551 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
3552 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3553 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
3554 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3556 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3557 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
3558 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
3559 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
3561 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3562 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
3563 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
3564 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
3565 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3568 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
3569 Closes ticket 30630.
3572 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
3573 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
3574 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
3575 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
3576 SENDME implementation.
3578 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
3579 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
3580 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
3581 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
3582 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
3583 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
3584 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
3585 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
3586 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
3587 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
3588 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3590 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
3591 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
3592 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
3593 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
3594 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
3595 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3597 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
3598 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
3599 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
3600 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
3601 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
3604 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
3605 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
3606 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
3607 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
3608 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
3609 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
3612 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3613 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
3614 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
3617 o Minor features (maintenance):
3618 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
3619 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
3620 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
3622 o Minor features (testing):
3623 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
3624 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
3625 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
3626 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
3628 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
3629 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
3630 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
3632 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
3633 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
3634 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
3635 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3637 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3638 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
3639 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
3641 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
3642 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
3645 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
3646 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
3647 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
3650 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
3651 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
3652 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
3655 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
3656 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
3657 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
3658 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
3660 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
3661 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
3662 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
3663 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
3666 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3667 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
3668 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
3669 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
3670 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
3671 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
3674 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
3675 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
3676 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
3677 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
3678 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
3679 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3681 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
3682 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
3683 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
3684 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
3687 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
3688 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
3689 Resolves issue 29702.
3692 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
3693 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
3694 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
3695 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
3696 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
3697 performance in several areas.
3699 o Major features (circuit padding):
3700 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
3701 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
3702 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
3703 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
3704 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
3705 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
3706 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
3707 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
3708 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
3710 o Major features (code organization):
3711 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
3712 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
3713 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
3714 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
3717 o Major features (controller protocol):
3718 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
3719 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
3720 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
3721 Closes ticket 30091.
3723 o Major features (flow control):
3724 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
3725 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
3726 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
3727 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
3728 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
3729 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
3730 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
3732 o Major features (performance):
3733 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
3734 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
3735 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
3737 o Major features (performance, RNG):
3738 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
3739 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
3740 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
3741 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
3742 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
3743 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
3744 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
3745 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
3747 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
3748 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
3749 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
3750 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
3751 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
3753 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
3754 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
3755 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
3756 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
3759 o Minor features (circuit padding):
3760 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
3762 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
3763 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
3764 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
3765 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
3766 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3767 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
3768 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
3770 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
3771 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
3772 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
3774 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3775 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
3776 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
3778 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
3780 o Minor features (controller):
3781 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
3782 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
3783 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3785 o Minor features (debugging):
3786 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
3787 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
3788 can use format strings to include information for trouble
3789 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
3791 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3792 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
3793 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
3794 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
3795 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
3796 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
3797 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
3798 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
3799 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
3800 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
3802 o Minor features (developer tools):
3803 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
3804 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
3805 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
3806 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
3807 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
3809 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
3810 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
3812 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
3813 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
3815 o Minor features (geoip):
3816 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3817 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
3819 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
3820 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
3821 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
3823 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
3824 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
3825 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
3826 addresses. Implements 26992.
3828 o Minor features (modularity):
3829 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
3830 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
3832 o Minor features (performance):
3833 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
3834 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
3835 Closes ticket 28837.
3837 o Minor features (testing):
3838 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
3839 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
3840 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
3841 Implements ticket 29732.
3842 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
3843 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
3845 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
3846 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
3848 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
3849 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
3850 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
3851 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
3852 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
3853 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3855 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
3856 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
3857 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
3858 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3860 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
3861 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
3862 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3863 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
3864 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
3865 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
3866 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3867 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
3868 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
3869 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3870 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
3871 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3872 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
3873 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
3874 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3875 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
3876 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
3877 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3879 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
3880 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
3881 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
3882 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3884 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3885 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
3886 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
3887 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
3888 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
3890 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
3891 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
3892 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3893 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3895 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3896 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
3897 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3898 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
3899 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
3900 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
3902 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
3903 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
3905 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3906 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
3907 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
3908 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
3909 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
3910 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
3911 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
3914 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
3915 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
3916 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
3919 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3920 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
3921 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
3922 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3923 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
3924 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
3925 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
3926 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
3928 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
3929 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
3930 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3931 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
3932 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
3933 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
3934 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3936 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
3937 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
3938 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
3939 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
3940 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
3941 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3943 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3944 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
3945 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
3946 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
3947 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3949 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3950 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
3951 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
3953 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
3954 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
3955 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
3958 o Minor bugfixes (python):
3959 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
3960 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
3961 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3963 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3964 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
3965 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
3966 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
3967 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3969 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
3970 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
3971 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
3972 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
3973 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3975 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3976 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
3977 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
3978 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3979 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
3980 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3981 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
3982 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3983 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
3984 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
3985 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
3986 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
3987 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3989 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
3990 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
3991 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
3992 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
3993 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3995 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3996 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
3997 port. Implements ticket 30007.
3998 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
3999 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
4000 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
4001 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
4002 string to directory connection with or without compression.
4003 Resolves issue 28816.
4004 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
4005 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
4006 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
4007 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
4008 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
4009 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
4010 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
4011 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
4012 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
4013 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
4014 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
4015 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
4016 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
4017 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
4018 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
4019 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
4020 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4021 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
4022 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4023 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
4024 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
4025 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
4026 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
4027 Closes ticket 29894.
4028 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
4029 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
4030 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
4031 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
4034 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
4035 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
4039 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
4040 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
4041 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
4042 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
4045 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
4046 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
4047 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
4048 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
4049 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
4050 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
4051 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
4052 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
4053 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
4054 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
4055 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
4058 o Testing (chutney):
4059 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
4060 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
4061 Closes ticket 27251.
4064 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
4065 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
4066 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
4067 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
4068 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
4069 long-term maintainability.
4071 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
4072 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
4073 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4074 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4076 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
4077 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4079 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4080 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
4081 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
4082 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
4084 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4085 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
4086 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
4089 o Minor features (testing):
4090 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
4091 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
4094 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
4095 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
4096 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4098 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
4099 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
4100 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
4101 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4103 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4104 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
4105 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
4107 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
4108 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
4109 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4112 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
4113 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
4114 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
4115 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
4117 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
4118 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
4119 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
4120 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
4121 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
4122 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4124 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
4125 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
4126 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
4127 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
4128 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
4130 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
4131 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
4132 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
4135 o Minor features (circuit padding):
4136 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
4137 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
4138 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
4139 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
4142 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4143 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
4144 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
4147 o Minor features (dormant mode):
4148 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
4149 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
4150 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
4151 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
4152 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
4153 background. Closes ticket 29357.
4155 o Minor features (geoip):
4156 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4157 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
4159 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
4160 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
4161 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
4162 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
4164 o Minor bugfixes (security):
4165 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
4166 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
4167 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
4168 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
4169 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
4170 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
4171 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
4172 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
4174 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
4175 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
4176 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
4177 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
4179 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
4180 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
4181 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
4182 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
4183 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
4185 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
4186 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
4187 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4189 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
4190 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
4191 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
4194 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
4195 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
4196 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
4199 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
4200 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
4201 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4203 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4204 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
4205 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
4207 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4208 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
4209 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
4210 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
4211 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
4212 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
4215 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4216 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
4217 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
4218 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
4219 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4221 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4222 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
4223 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
4224 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4225 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
4226 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
4229 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
4230 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
4231 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
4232 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
4233 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
4234 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
4235 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
4236 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4238 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4239 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
4240 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
4241 Resolves issue 28816.
4242 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
4243 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
4246 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
4247 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
4250 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
4251 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
4252 bugs from earlier versions.
4254 o Minor features (address selection):
4255 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
4256 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
4257 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
4258 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
4259 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
4260 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
4261 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4263 o Minor features (geoip):
4264 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4265 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
4267 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
4268 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
4269 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
4270 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4272 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4273 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
4274 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
4275 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
4276 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4277 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
4278 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
4279 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
4280 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4281 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
4282 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4284 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
4285 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
4286 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
4287 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4289 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
4290 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
4291 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4293 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4294 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
4295 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
4298 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
4299 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
4300 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4302 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
4303 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
4304 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
4305 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
4306 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
4307 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
4308 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
4310 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
4311 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
4312 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
4315 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4316 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
4317 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
4318 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
4319 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
4320 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
4321 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
4322 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4323 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
4324 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4326 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
4327 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
4328 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
4329 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
4330 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
4331 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4334 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
4335 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
4336 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
4339 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
4340 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
4341 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
4343 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4344 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4345 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4346 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4347 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4348 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4349 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4350 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4352 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4353 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
4354 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
4355 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
4356 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4358 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4359 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
4360 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
4361 Patches from "Mangix".
4363 o Minor features (geoip):
4364 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4365 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
4367 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4368 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
4371 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4372 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
4373 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
4374 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
4375 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
4376 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
4378 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4379 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
4380 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
4381 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
4384 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4385 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4386 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4387 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4389 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4390 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
4391 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
4394 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4395 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
4396 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
4397 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4399 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4400 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
4401 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
4402 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
4404 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4405 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
4406 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
4407 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
4408 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
4409 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
4411 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4412 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
4413 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
4414 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
4415 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4417 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4418 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
4419 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
4420 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
4421 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4423 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4424 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
4425 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
4427 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
4428 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
4429 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
4431 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4432 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4433 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4434 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4436 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4437 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
4438 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
4440 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4441 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
4442 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4443 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
4444 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
4447 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
4448 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
4449 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
4450 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
4451 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4454 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
4455 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
4456 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
4457 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
4458 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
4460 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4461 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4462 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4463 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4464 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4465 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4466 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4467 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4469 o Minor features (geoip):
4470 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4471 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
4473 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4474 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4475 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4476 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4478 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4479 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4480 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4481 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4482 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4485 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
4486 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
4487 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
4488 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
4490 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
4491 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
4492 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
4493 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
4495 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4496 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4497 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4498 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4499 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4500 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4501 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4502 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4504 o Minor features (geoip):
4505 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4506 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
4508 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4509 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4510 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4511 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4513 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4514 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4515 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4516 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4517 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4520 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
4521 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
4522 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
4523 backward compatibility.
4525 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
4526 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
4527 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
4529 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
4530 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
4531 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
4532 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
4533 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
4534 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
4535 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
4536 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
4538 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4539 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
4540 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
4541 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
4542 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4544 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
4545 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
4546 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
4547 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
4548 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
4549 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
4550 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4552 o Minor features (compilation):
4553 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
4554 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
4555 Patches from "Mangix".
4557 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4558 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
4559 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
4560 release. Closes ticket 27761.
4561 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
4562 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
4563 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
4566 o Minor features (directory authority):
4567 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
4568 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
4569 Closes ticket 26698.
4571 o Minor features (geoip):
4572 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4573 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
4575 o Minor features (testing):
4576 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
4579 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
4580 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
4581 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
4582 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4584 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4585 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
4586 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4587 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
4588 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4590 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4591 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
4592 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
4593 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
4595 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
4596 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
4597 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4599 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4600 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
4601 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4602 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
4603 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
4604 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
4605 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4607 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
4608 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
4609 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
4610 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
4611 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4613 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4614 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
4615 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
4617 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
4618 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
4619 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
4621 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
4622 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
4623 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
4624 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
4626 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
4627 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
4628 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
4629 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
4630 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
4633 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
4634 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
4635 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4636 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
4637 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
4638 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
4639 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4640 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
4641 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4642 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
4643 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
4647 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
4648 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
4649 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
4652 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
4655 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
4656 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
4657 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
4658 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
4659 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
4660 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
4663 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
4664 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
4665 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
4666 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
4667 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
4668 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
4670 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
4671 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
4673 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
4674 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
4677 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
4678 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
4679 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
4680 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
4681 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
4682 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
4683 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
4684 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
4685 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
4688 o Major features (circuit padding):
4689 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
4690 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
4691 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
4692 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
4693 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
4694 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
4695 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
4696 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
4699 o Major features (refactoring):
4700 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
4701 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
4702 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
4703 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
4706 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
4707 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
4708 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
4709 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
4710 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
4713 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4714 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
4717 o Minor features (controller):
4718 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
4719 Implements ticket 28843.
4721 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4722 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
4723 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
4724 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
4726 o Minor features (directory authority):
4727 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
4728 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
4729 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
4730 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
4733 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
4734 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
4735 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
4736 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
4737 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
4738 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
4739 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
4741 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
4742 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
4743 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
4745 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
4746 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
4747 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
4748 Closes ticket 28518.
4750 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
4751 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
4752 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
4753 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
4755 o Minor features (IPv6):
4756 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
4757 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
4758 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
4759 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
4760 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
4761 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4762 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
4763 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
4764 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
4765 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4767 o Minor features (log messages):
4768 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
4769 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
4772 o Minor features (memory usage):
4773 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
4774 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
4775 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
4776 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
4777 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
4779 o Minor features (parsing):
4780 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
4781 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
4782 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
4784 o Minor features (performance):
4785 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
4786 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
4787 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
4788 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
4790 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
4791 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
4792 Closes ticket 28852.
4793 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
4794 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
4795 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
4796 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
4797 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
4798 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
4800 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
4801 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
4802 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
4803 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
4804 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
4806 o Minor features (process management):
4807 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
4808 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
4809 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
4810 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
4811 module. Closes ticket 28847.
4813 o Minor features (relay):
4814 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
4815 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
4816 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
4818 o Minor features (required protocols):
4819 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
4820 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
4821 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
4822 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
4823 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
4824 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
4825 297; closes ticket 27735.
4827 o Minor features (testing):
4828 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
4829 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
4831 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
4832 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
4833 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4834 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
4835 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
4838 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4839 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
4840 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
4841 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4843 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
4844 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
4845 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
4847 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
4848 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
4849 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
4850 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4852 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
4853 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
4854 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
4855 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
4856 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
4858 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
4859 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
4860 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
4861 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
4862 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
4863 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
4864 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4866 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
4867 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
4868 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
4869 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
4872 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4873 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
4874 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
4875 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
4876 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
4877 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
4879 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
4880 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
4881 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
4882 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4884 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4885 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
4886 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
4887 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
4888 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
4889 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
4891 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
4892 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
4893 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
4894 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4896 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4897 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
4898 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
4899 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
4900 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4902 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
4903 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
4904 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
4905 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
4906 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4908 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
4909 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
4910 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
4911 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
4912 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4914 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4915 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
4916 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
4917 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
4919 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
4920 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
4921 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
4922 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
4923 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
4924 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
4925 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
4926 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
4930 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
4931 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
4932 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
4933 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
4935 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
4938 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
4939 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
4940 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
4941 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
4942 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
4943 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
4944 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
4947 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
4949 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
4950 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
4952 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
4953 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
4954 code from client and service into one function. Closes
4957 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
4958 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
4960 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
4961 Resolves ticket 28006.
4962 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
4963 Resolves ticket 28012.
4964 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
4965 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
4966 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
4967 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
4971 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
4972 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
4973 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
4974 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
4975 to this version, or to a later series.
4977 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
4978 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
4979 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
4980 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
4981 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
4982 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
4984 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4985 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
4986 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
4987 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
4988 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
4991 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4992 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
4993 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
4994 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4996 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4997 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
4998 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
4999 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5000 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5001 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5002 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5003 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5005 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5006 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5007 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5008 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5010 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5011 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
5012 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
5013 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
5014 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
5016 o Minor features (geoip):
5017 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5018 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
5020 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5021 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
5022 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
5023 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
5024 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
5025 Closes ticket 28973.
5027 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5028 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
5029 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
5030 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
5032 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5033 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
5034 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
5037 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5038 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5039 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5041 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5042 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
5043 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
5044 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5046 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5047 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
5048 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
5049 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5051 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5052 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5053 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5054 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5055 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5056 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
5059 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5060 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
5061 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
5064 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5065 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5066 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5067 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5068 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5070 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5071 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
5072 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
5073 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
5074 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5076 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5077 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
5078 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
5079 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
5080 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
5081 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5083 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
5084 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
5085 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
5088 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5089 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
5090 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
5092 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5093 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
5094 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5096 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5097 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
5098 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
5101 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5102 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
5103 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
5104 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
5105 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
5106 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5107 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
5108 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5110 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5111 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
5112 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
5113 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5115 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5116 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
5117 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5118 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
5119 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
5120 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5121 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
5122 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
5123 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
5124 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
5126 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5127 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
5128 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
5129 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
5130 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
5131 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5133 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5134 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
5135 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
5136 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
5137 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5139 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5140 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
5141 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5144 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
5145 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
5146 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
5147 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
5150 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
5151 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
5152 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
5155 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5156 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
5157 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
5158 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
5159 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
5162 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5163 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
5164 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
5165 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
5166 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
5167 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
5168 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
5170 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5171 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
5172 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
5175 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5176 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
5177 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
5178 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
5179 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
5182 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5183 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
5184 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
5185 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
5186 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
5188 o Minor features (geoip):
5189 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5190 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
5192 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5193 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
5194 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
5195 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
5196 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
5197 Closes ticket 28973.
5199 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5200 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
5201 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
5202 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5204 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5205 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
5206 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
5207 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
5208 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
5211 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5212 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
5213 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
5214 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
5216 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
5217 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
5218 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5220 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5221 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
5222 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
5223 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
5225 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5226 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5227 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5228 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5229 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5230 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
5233 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
5234 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
5235 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
5237 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5238 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
5239 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
5240 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
5241 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5243 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5244 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
5245 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
5246 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
5247 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
5248 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5250 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
5251 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
5252 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
5253 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
5255 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
5256 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
5257 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5260 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
5261 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
5262 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
5263 affecting directory caches.
5265 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
5266 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
5267 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
5268 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
5269 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
5270 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
5271 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
5272 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
5274 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
5275 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
5276 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
5277 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
5278 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
5279 so it will recognize them.
5281 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
5282 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
5283 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
5284 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
5285 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
5286 with the latest stable release.)
5288 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
5289 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5291 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
5292 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
5293 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
5294 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
5295 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
5296 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
5297 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
5299 o Minor features (compilation):
5300 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
5301 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
5303 o Minor features (geoip):
5304 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5305 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
5307 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
5308 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
5309 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
5310 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
5311 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
5312 Closes ticket 28973.
5314 o Minor features (performance):
5315 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
5316 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
5317 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
5318 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
5319 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
5320 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
5321 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
5322 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
5323 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
5324 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
5326 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5327 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
5328 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5330 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5331 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
5332 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
5333 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
5334 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
5336 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5337 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
5338 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
5339 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5340 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
5341 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
5342 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5344 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
5345 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
5346 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
5348 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5349 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
5350 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
5354 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
5355 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
5356 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
5357 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
5359 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
5360 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
5361 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
5364 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5365 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
5366 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
5367 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
5368 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
5370 o Minor features (geoip):
5371 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5372 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
5374 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5375 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
5376 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5378 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
5379 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
5380 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
5381 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
5383 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5384 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
5385 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
5386 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
5387 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
5388 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5390 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
5391 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
5392 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
5395 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5396 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
5397 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
5398 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5399 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
5400 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
5401 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5403 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
5404 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
5405 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
5406 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
5407 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
5408 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
5409 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
5410 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
5412 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
5413 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
5414 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
5415 reported by Keifer Bly.
5418 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
5419 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
5421 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
5422 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
5423 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
5424 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
5425 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
5426 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
5427 Closes ticket 19566.
5429 o Documentation (onion services):
5430 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
5431 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
5432 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
5433 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
5434 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
5435 process. Closes ticket 28275.
5438 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
5439 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
5440 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
5443 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
5444 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
5445 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
5446 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
5447 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
5450 o Minor features (geoip):
5451 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5452 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
5454 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5455 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
5456 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
5457 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5459 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
5460 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
5461 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
5462 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
5463 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
5466 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
5467 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
5468 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
5469 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
5471 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
5472 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
5473 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5475 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5476 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
5477 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5479 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5480 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
5481 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
5484 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5485 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
5486 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
5489 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5490 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
5491 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
5493 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5494 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
5495 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
5496 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
5497 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
5498 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
5499 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
5500 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
5501 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
5502 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5505 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
5506 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
5507 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
5508 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
5509 acceptable long-term-support release.
5511 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
5512 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
5513 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
5514 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
5515 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
5516 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5518 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
5519 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
5520 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
5521 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
5522 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5524 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5525 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
5527 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
5528 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
5530 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
5531 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
5532 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
5534 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
5535 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
5536 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
5539 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5540 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
5541 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5543 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
5544 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
5545 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
5548 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5549 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
5550 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
5553 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
5554 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
5555 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
5556 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5558 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5559 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
5560 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
5561 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
5564 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
5565 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
5566 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
5567 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5569 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5570 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
5571 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
5572 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
5573 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
5574 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
5575 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5577 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
5578 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
5579 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
5582 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
5583 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
5586 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
5587 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
5588 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
5589 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
5590 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5592 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
5593 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
5594 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5595 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
5596 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
5597 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5599 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
5600 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
5601 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
5602 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
5603 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
5605 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5606 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
5607 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5609 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
5610 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
5611 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
5612 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
5613 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5615 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
5616 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
5617 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
5620 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
5621 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
5622 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
5623 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
5624 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
5626 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5627 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
5628 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5630 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5631 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
5632 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
5633 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
5634 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5636 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5637 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
5638 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
5639 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
5640 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
5643 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5644 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5645 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5646 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5648 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5649 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
5650 Implements ticket 27252.
5651 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
5652 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
5653 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5654 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5655 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5656 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5657 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5659 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5660 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5661 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5662 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5664 o Minor features (geoip):
5665 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5666 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
5668 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5669 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
5670 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
5671 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
5672 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5674 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
5675 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
5676 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5677 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
5678 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5681 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5682 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
5683 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
5686 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5687 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
5688 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
5689 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
5690 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5692 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5693 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5694 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5696 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5697 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
5698 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5700 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5701 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
5702 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
5703 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5705 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5706 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
5707 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5709 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5710 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
5711 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
5714 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5715 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
5716 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5718 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5719 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
5720 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
5723 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5724 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5725 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5726 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5727 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5729 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5730 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
5731 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
5732 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
5733 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
5734 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5736 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5737 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
5738 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
5741 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5742 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
5743 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
5744 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
5745 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
5746 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5747 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
5748 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5750 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
5751 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
5752 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
5753 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5755 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5756 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
5757 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
5758 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
5759 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
5761 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5762 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
5763 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5764 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
5765 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
5766 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5768 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
5769 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
5770 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
5771 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
5772 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
5773 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5775 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
5776 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
5777 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
5778 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
5781 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
5782 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
5783 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
5784 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
5785 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5788 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
5789 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
5790 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
5791 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
5792 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
5793 getting closer and closer to stability.
5795 o Major features (onion services):
5796 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
5797 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
5798 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
5799 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
5800 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
5802 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
5803 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
5804 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5806 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
5807 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
5808 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
5809 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5811 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
5812 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
5813 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
5814 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
5815 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5817 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5818 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
5819 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
5820 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
5821 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
5824 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5825 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
5826 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
5827 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
5828 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
5829 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
5832 o Minor features (geoip):
5833 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5834 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
5836 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
5837 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
5838 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
5841 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5842 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
5843 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
5844 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
5845 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
5846 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
5849 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
5850 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
5853 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
5854 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
5855 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
5856 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
5857 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5859 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
5860 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
5861 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
5862 were the same, the default setting (0) for
5863 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
5864 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
5867 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5868 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
5869 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5871 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
5872 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
5873 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
5875 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
5876 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
5877 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5879 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5880 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
5881 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
5883 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
5884 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
5885 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
5886 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5887 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
5888 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
5889 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
5890 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
5891 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5893 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
5894 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
5895 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
5898 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5899 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
5900 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
5901 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
5903 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
5904 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5906 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5907 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
5908 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
5909 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
5910 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
5911 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
5912 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
5913 Closes ticket 27814.
5914 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
5915 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
5916 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
5917 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
5918 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
5919 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
5922 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
5923 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
5924 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
5925 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
5928 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
5929 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
5930 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
5931 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
5933 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
5934 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
5935 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
5936 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
5937 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
5938 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
5940 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
5941 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
5942 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
5943 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
5944 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
5947 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
5948 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
5949 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
5950 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
5951 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5953 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
5954 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
5955 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5956 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
5957 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5960 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5961 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5962 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5963 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5964 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5966 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
5967 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
5968 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
5969 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
5971 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
5972 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
5973 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
5976 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5977 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
5978 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
5979 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5981 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5982 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
5983 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
5984 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5986 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5987 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
5988 Closes ticket 27799.
5991 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
5992 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
5993 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
5994 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
5995 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
5997 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
5998 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
5999 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
6000 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
6001 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
6002 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
6004 o Major features (relay, UI change):
6005 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
6006 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
6007 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
6008 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
6009 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6010 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
6011 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
6013 o Major features (bootstrap):
6014 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
6015 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
6016 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
6017 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
6019 o Major features (new code layout):
6020 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
6021 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
6022 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
6023 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
6024 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
6025 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
6026 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
6028 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
6029 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
6030 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
6032 o Major features (onion services v3):
6033 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
6034 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
6035 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
6036 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
6037 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
6038 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
6039 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
6040 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
6041 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
6042 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
6043 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
6044 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
6045 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
6047 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
6048 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
6049 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
6050 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
6051 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
6052 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
6053 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
6055 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
6056 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
6057 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
6058 (if present), and restart Tor.
6060 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
6061 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
6062 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
6063 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
6066 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
6067 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
6068 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
6069 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6071 o Minor features (admin tools):
6072 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
6073 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
6076 o Minor features (build):
6077 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
6078 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
6079 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
6080 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
6082 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
6083 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
6084 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
6085 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
6086 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
6088 o Minor features (code layout):
6089 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
6090 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
6091 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
6092 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
6095 o Minor features (compilation):
6096 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
6097 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
6098 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
6099 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
6102 o Minor features (config):
6103 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
6106 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6107 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
6108 Implements ticket 27252.
6109 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6110 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6111 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
6112 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
6113 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
6114 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
6115 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
6116 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
6117 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
6119 o Minor features (controller):
6120 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
6121 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
6122 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
6123 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
6124 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
6125 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
6126 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
6127 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
6129 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
6130 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
6131 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
6132 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
6134 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
6135 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
6136 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
6137 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6139 o Minor features (development):
6140 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
6141 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
6143 o Minor features (directory authority):
6144 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
6145 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
6146 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
6147 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
6149 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
6150 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
6153 o Minor features (embedding API):
6154 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
6155 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
6156 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
6157 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
6158 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
6159 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
6162 o Minor features (geoip):
6163 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6164 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
6166 o Minor features (memory management):
6167 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
6168 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
6171 o Minor features (memory usage):
6172 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
6173 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
6174 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
6176 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
6177 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
6178 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
6180 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
6181 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
6182 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
6183 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
6185 o Minor features (testing):
6186 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
6187 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
6189 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
6190 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
6191 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
6193 o Minor features (UI):
6194 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
6195 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
6196 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
6197 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
6198 Closes ticket 26703.
6200 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
6201 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
6202 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
6203 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
6205 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
6206 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
6207 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
6208 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6209 - Use time_t for all values in
6210 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
6211 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
6212 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6214 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
6215 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
6216 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
6217 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
6218 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
6221 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
6222 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
6223 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
6224 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
6225 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
6226 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6228 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
6229 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
6230 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
6231 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6233 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
6234 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
6235 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
6236 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
6237 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
6239 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6240 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
6241 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6243 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6244 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
6245 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
6246 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
6247 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
6250 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
6251 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
6252 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6254 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
6255 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
6256 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
6259 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
6260 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
6261 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
6262 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
6263 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6265 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6266 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
6267 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
6268 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
6269 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
6270 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
6271 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
6273 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
6274 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
6275 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
6276 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
6277 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6279 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
6280 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
6281 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6283 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
6284 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
6285 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
6286 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
6289 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6290 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
6291 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
6294 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
6295 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
6296 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
6297 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
6298 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
6300 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
6301 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
6302 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
6303 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
6305 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
6306 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6307 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6308 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6310 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
6311 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
6312 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
6313 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
6314 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
6315 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6316 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6317 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
6318 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
6319 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6321 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
6322 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
6323 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
6324 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
6325 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
6326 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6327 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
6328 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6330 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6331 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
6332 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6333 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
6334 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
6335 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
6336 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
6337 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6338 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
6339 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
6340 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6341 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
6342 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6344 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6345 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
6346 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
6347 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
6348 directory within the top-level src directory.
6349 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
6350 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
6351 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
6352 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
6353 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
6354 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
6355 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
6356 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
6357 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
6358 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
6359 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
6360 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
6361 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
6362 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
6363 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
6364 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
6365 Closes ticket 21349.
6366 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
6367 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
6368 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
6369 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
6370 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
6371 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
6372 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
6374 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
6375 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
6376 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
6379 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
6380 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
6381 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
6382 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
6383 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
6386 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
6387 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
6388 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
6389 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
6390 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
6391 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
6392 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
6393 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
6394 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
6395 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
6396 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
6397 Closes ticket 26367.
6400 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
6401 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
6403 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6404 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6405 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6406 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6408 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6409 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6411 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6412 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6413 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6414 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6416 o Minor features (geoip):
6417 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6418 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6420 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6421 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6422 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6423 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6425 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6426 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6427 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6428 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6429 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6430 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6431 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6432 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6435 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6436 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6437 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6438 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6440 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6441 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6442 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6443 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6445 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6446 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6447 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6448 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6450 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6451 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6452 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6453 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6454 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6456 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6457 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6458 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6461 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6462 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6463 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6464 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6465 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6467 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6468 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6469 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6472 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6473 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6474 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6475 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6477 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6478 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6479 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6481 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6482 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6483 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6486 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6487 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6488 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6489 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6490 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6492 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6493 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6494 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6497 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
6498 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6500 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6501 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6502 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6503 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6505 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6506 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6508 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6509 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6510 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6511 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6513 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6514 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6517 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6518 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6519 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6520 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6522 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6523 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6524 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6525 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6527 o Minor features (geoip):
6528 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6529 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6531 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6532 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6533 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6534 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6535 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6536 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6537 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6539 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6540 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6541 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6542 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6543 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6544 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6545 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6546 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6549 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6550 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6551 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6552 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6554 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6555 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6556 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6557 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6559 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6560 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6561 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6562 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6563 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6565 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6566 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6567 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6568 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6569 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6571 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6572 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6573 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6576 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6577 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6578 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6579 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6580 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6582 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6583 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6584 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6587 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6588 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6589 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6592 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6593 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6594 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6597 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6598 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6600 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
6601 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6602 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6603 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6605 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6606 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6607 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6608 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6610 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6611 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6612 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6614 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6615 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6616 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6617 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6618 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6619 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6620 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6623 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
6624 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
6625 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
6626 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
6627 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6629 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6630 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6631 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6632 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6633 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6635 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6636 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6637 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6640 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
6641 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6643 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6644 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
6645 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
6646 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
6648 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6649 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6650 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6651 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6653 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6654 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
6655 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6657 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6658 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6659 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6660 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6662 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6663 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6666 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6667 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6668 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6669 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6671 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6672 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6673 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6674 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6676 o Minor features (geoip):
6677 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6678 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6680 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6681 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6682 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6683 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6684 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6685 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6686 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6688 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6689 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6690 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6691 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6692 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6693 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6694 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6695 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6698 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6699 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6700 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6701 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6703 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6704 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6705 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6706 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6708 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6709 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6710 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6711 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6712 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6714 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6715 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6716 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6717 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6718 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6720 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6721 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6722 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6725 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6726 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
6727 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
6728 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6730 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6731 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6732 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6733 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6734 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6736 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6737 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6738 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6741 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6742 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6743 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6746 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6747 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6748 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6751 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6752 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
6753 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
6754 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6756 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6757 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
6758 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
6761 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6762 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6764 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
6765 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6766 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
6767 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
6768 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6769 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
6770 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
6772 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6773 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6774 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
6775 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
6776 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
6778 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6779 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
6780 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
6781 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6783 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6784 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6785 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6787 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
6788 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6789 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6790 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6791 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6792 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6793 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6796 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6797 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6798 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6799 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6800 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6802 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
6803 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
6804 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
6805 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
6806 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6808 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
6809 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6810 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6813 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
6814 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
6815 compilation and portability fixes.
6817 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
6818 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
6819 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
6820 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
6821 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
6822 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
6823 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
6824 our anti-denial-of-service code.
6826 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
6827 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6829 o Minor features (compatibility):
6830 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
6831 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
6832 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
6834 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6835 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
6836 Implements ticket 27449.
6837 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
6838 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
6841 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6842 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
6843 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
6844 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
6845 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6846 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
6847 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
6848 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
6851 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6852 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
6853 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
6854 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
6855 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
6856 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6857 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
6858 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6859 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
6860 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
6862 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6863 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
6864 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
6867 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
6868 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
6869 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
6870 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
6871 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6872 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
6873 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
6876 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
6877 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
6878 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
6879 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
6880 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
6882 o Minor features (bug workaround):
6883 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
6884 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
6885 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
6887 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6888 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
6889 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6891 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
6892 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
6893 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
6894 Implements ticket 27275.
6895 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
6896 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
6898 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
6899 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
6902 o Minor features (directory authorities):
6903 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
6904 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
6905 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
6907 o Minor features (geoip):
6908 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6909 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
6911 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
6912 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
6913 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
6914 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6916 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6917 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
6918 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
6919 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
6920 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6921 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
6922 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
6923 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6925 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
6926 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
6927 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
6928 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6930 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6931 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
6932 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
6933 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
6934 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
6936 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6937 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6938 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6941 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6942 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
6943 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
6946 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
6947 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6949 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
6950 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6951 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
6952 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
6953 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6954 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
6955 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
6957 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6958 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6959 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
6960 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
6961 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
6963 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
6964 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
6965 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
6966 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
6967 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6969 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
6970 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6971 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6972 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6973 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6975 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
6976 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6977 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6980 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
6981 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
6982 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
6983 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
6984 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
6986 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
6987 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
6988 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
6989 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
6990 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
6991 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6993 o Minor features (compilation):
6994 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6995 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6997 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6998 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6999 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7000 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
7001 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
7002 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
7004 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7005 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
7006 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
7007 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
7009 o Minor features (controller):
7010 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
7011 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
7012 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
7014 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7015 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
7016 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
7019 o Minor features (geoip):
7020 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7021 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
7023 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
7024 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
7026 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7027 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
7028 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
7029 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7030 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7031 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7032 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7034 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7035 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
7036 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7037 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
7038 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
7039 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
7041 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
7042 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
7043 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
7046 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
7047 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
7048 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
7050 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7051 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
7052 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
7055 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7056 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
7057 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7058 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
7059 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
7060 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7062 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
7063 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
7064 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
7065 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7067 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7068 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
7069 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7071 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
7072 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
7073 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
7074 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
7075 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
7076 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
7078 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
7079 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
7080 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
7081 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
7082 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7085 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
7086 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
7087 bridge relays should upgrade.
7089 o Directory authority changes:
7090 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7091 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
7092 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
7095 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
7096 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
7097 bridge relays should upgrade.
7099 o Directory authority changes:
7100 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7101 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
7102 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
7105 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
7106 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
7107 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
7110 o Directory authority changes:
7111 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7112 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
7113 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
7115 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
7116 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
7117 Closes ticket 26343.
7119 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7120 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7121 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7122 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7123 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7125 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7126 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
7127 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
7129 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7130 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
7131 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
7132 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
7134 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7135 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
7136 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
7138 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7139 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7140 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7141 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7142 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7143 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7145 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7146 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
7147 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
7148 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
7150 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7151 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7152 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7155 o Minor features (geoip):
7156 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7157 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
7159 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7160 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
7161 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
7162 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
7163 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7165 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7166 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7167 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7169 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7170 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
7171 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
7172 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
7173 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7174 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
7175 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
7176 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
7179 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7180 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
7181 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
7182 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
7183 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
7184 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7186 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7187 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
7188 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
7189 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
7190 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7192 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7193 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7194 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7195 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7196 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7198 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7199 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7200 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7203 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7204 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7205 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7207 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7208 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
7209 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
7210 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
7212 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7213 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
7214 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7215 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
7216 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
7217 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
7218 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7220 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7221 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
7222 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
7223 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
7226 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7227 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
7228 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7230 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7231 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
7232 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7234 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7235 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
7236 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
7237 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
7240 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7241 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
7242 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
7243 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7245 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7246 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
7247 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
7249 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7250 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
7251 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
7254 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
7255 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
7256 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
7259 o Directory authority changes:
7260 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
7261 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
7262 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
7264 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
7265 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
7266 Closes ticket 26343.
7268 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7269 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7270 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7271 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7272 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7274 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7275 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
7276 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
7277 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
7279 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7280 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7281 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7282 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7283 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7284 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7286 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7287 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7288 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7291 o Minor features (geoip):
7292 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7293 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
7295 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7296 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
7297 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
7298 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
7299 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7301 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7302 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7303 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7305 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7306 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
7307 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
7308 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
7311 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7312 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
7313 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
7314 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
7315 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
7316 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7318 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7319 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7320 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7321 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7322 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7324 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7325 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7326 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7329 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7330 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7331 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7333 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
7334 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
7335 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
7336 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
7338 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7339 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
7340 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
7342 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
7343 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
7344 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
7347 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
7348 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
7349 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
7350 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
7351 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
7353 o Minor features (compilation):
7354 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7355 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7358 o Minor features (geoip):
7359 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7360 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
7362 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
7363 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
7365 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7366 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7367 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7368 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7369 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7371 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
7372 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
7373 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7374 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
7375 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
7376 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
7378 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
7379 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
7380 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
7383 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
7384 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
7385 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
7387 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
7388 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
7389 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
7390 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
7391 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7392 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
7393 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
7394 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
7398 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
7399 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
7400 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
7402 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7403 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
7404 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
7405 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7407 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7408 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
7409 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
7412 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7413 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
7414 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
7417 o Minor features (geoip):
7418 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7419 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
7421 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7422 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
7423 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
7424 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
7426 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7427 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
7428 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
7429 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
7430 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
7433 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7434 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
7435 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
7436 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
7437 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7439 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7440 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
7441 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
7442 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
7444 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7445 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
7446 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
7448 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
7449 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
7450 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
7451 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
7454 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7455 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
7456 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
7457 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7459 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
7460 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
7461 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
7462 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
7463 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7464 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
7465 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
7466 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
7470 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
7471 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
7472 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
7474 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
7475 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
7476 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
7477 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7479 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
7480 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
7481 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
7484 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
7485 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
7486 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
7487 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
7489 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
7490 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
7491 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
7492 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
7494 o Minor features (unit tests):
7495 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
7496 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
7497 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
7500 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7501 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
7502 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
7503 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7504 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
7505 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
7506 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7507 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
7508 Closes ticket 26245.
7510 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7511 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
7512 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
7513 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
7514 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
7515 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7517 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7518 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
7519 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
7520 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
7523 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7524 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
7525 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7526 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
7527 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
7528 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
7529 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
7530 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
7531 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7532 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
7533 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
7534 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
7535 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
7536 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7539 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
7540 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
7541 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
7543 o Directory authority changes:
7544 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
7545 Closes ticket 26343.
7547 o Minor features (geoip):
7548 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7549 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
7551 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7552 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
7553 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
7554 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
7555 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
7556 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7558 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7559 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
7560 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7562 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7563 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
7564 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
7565 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
7566 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7568 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
7569 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7570 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7572 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7573 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
7574 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
7575 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
7576 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
7577 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7580 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
7581 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
7582 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
7584 o Directory authority changes:
7585 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
7586 Closes ticket 26343.
7588 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
7589 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
7590 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
7591 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
7592 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
7594 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7595 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
7596 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
7597 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
7599 o Minor features (geoip):
7600 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7601 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
7603 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
7604 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
7605 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
7606 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
7607 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
7608 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7610 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7611 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
7612 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7613 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
7614 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7615 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
7616 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
7617 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7619 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
7620 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
7621 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
7622 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
7625 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7626 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
7627 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
7628 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
7629 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7631 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
7632 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
7633 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7635 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7636 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
7637 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7639 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
7640 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
7641 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
7642 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
7646 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
7647 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
7648 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7650 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
7651 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
7652 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
7653 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
7654 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
7655 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
7657 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
7658 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7660 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7661 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7662 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7663 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7664 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7666 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
7667 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
7668 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
7669 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
7670 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
7672 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7673 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
7674 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
7675 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7677 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7678 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
7679 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
7680 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7682 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7683 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
7684 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
7686 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7687 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
7688 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
7691 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7692 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
7693 Closes ticket 26006.
7695 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7696 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7697 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7698 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7699 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7700 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7702 o Minor features (geoip):
7703 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
7704 database. Closes ticket 26104.
7706 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7707 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7708 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7711 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7712 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
7713 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
7714 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
7715 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7717 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7718 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
7719 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
7720 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
7721 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
7724 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7725 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7726 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7728 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7729 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
7730 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7731 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
7732 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
7733 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
7734 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7736 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7737 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
7738 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7740 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
7741 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
7742 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
7745 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
7746 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
7747 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
7748 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
7749 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
7750 other small features and bugfixes.
7752 o New system requirements:
7753 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
7754 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
7755 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
7756 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
7758 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
7759 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
7760 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
7761 To disable the module, the configure option
7762 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
7763 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
7765 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
7766 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
7767 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
7768 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
7769 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
7770 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
7771 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
7772 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
7773 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
7774 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
7775 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
7777 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
7778 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
7779 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
7780 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
7781 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
7782 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
7783 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
7784 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
7785 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
7786 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
7787 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
7788 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
7789 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
7790 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
7791 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
7792 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
7793 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
7794 Tor's uptime (26009).
7796 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
7797 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
7798 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
7799 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
7800 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7802 o Major bugfixes (crash):
7803 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
7804 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
7805 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7807 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
7808 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
7809 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
7810 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7812 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
7813 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
7814 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
7816 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
7817 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
7818 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
7819 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
7820 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
7821 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
7822 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
7823 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
7824 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
7825 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
7826 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
7827 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
7828 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
7829 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7831 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
7832 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
7833 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
7836 o Minor features (accounting):
7837 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
7838 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
7839 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
7840 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
7842 o Minor features (code quality):
7843 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
7844 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
7845 Closes ticket 25024.
7847 o Minor features (compatibility):
7848 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
7849 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
7850 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
7851 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
7852 Closes ticket 26006.
7854 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
7855 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
7856 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
7857 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
7858 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
7859 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
7861 o Minor features (configuration):
7862 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
7863 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
7864 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
7865 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
7866 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
7868 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7869 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
7870 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
7871 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
7872 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
7873 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
7875 o Minor features (control port):
7876 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
7877 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
7878 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
7879 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7880 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
7881 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
7882 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
7883 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
7884 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
7885 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
7887 o Minor features (directory authority):
7888 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
7889 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
7890 Closes ticket 23909.
7892 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
7893 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
7894 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
7895 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
7897 o Minor features (entry guards):
7898 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
7899 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
7901 o Minor features (geoip):
7902 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
7903 database. Closes ticket 26104.
7905 o Minor features (performance):
7906 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
7907 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
7908 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
7909 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
7911 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
7912 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
7914 o Minor features (testing):
7915 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
7916 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
7918 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
7919 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
7920 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
7921 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
7922 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
7923 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
7925 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
7926 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
7927 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
7928 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
7929 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
7931 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
7932 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
7933 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
7934 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
7935 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
7936 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
7938 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7939 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
7940 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
7941 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
7943 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
7944 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
7945 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
7946 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
7947 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
7950 o Minor bugfixes (client):
7951 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7952 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7955 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
7956 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
7957 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7958 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
7959 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
7961 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
7962 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
7963 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
7964 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
7965 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7967 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7968 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
7969 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
7970 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
7971 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7973 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
7974 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
7975 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
7976 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
7977 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7979 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
7980 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
7981 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7982 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
7983 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
7984 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
7987 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7988 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
7989 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
7990 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
7991 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
7994 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
7995 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
7996 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
7997 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
7998 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
7999 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
8000 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
8002 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8003 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
8004 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8006 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
8007 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
8008 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8009 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
8010 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
8011 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
8012 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8014 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
8015 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
8016 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
8017 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
8018 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
8019 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8021 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8022 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
8023 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
8026 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
8027 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
8028 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
8029 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8031 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
8032 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
8033 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
8034 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
8035 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
8036 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
8037 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
8039 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
8040 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
8041 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8043 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
8044 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
8045 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
8046 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8048 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8049 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
8050 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
8051 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
8052 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
8053 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8054 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
8055 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
8057 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
8058 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
8059 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8060 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
8061 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
8062 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
8063 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
8065 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
8066 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
8067 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
8068 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
8069 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
8071 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
8072 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
8073 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
8076 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
8077 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
8078 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
8079 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
8080 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
8081 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8083 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8084 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
8085 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
8086 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8087 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
8088 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
8089 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
8090 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
8092 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
8093 confusing we renamed some functions and
8094 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
8095 router_should_check_reachability() and
8096 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
8097 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
8098 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
8099 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
8100 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
8102 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
8103 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
8105 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
8106 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
8107 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8108 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
8109 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
8110 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
8111 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
8112 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
8113 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
8114 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
8115 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
8116 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
8117 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
8118 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
8119 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
8120 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8121 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
8122 Closes ticket 25766.
8123 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
8124 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
8125 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
8126 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
8127 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
8128 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
8129 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
8130 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
8131 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
8132 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
8133 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8134 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
8135 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
8136 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
8138 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
8139 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
8140 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
8141 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
8142 before. Closes ticket 26016.
8143 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
8144 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
8145 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
8146 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
8148 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
8149 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
8150 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
8151 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8153 o Deprecated features:
8154 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
8155 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
8156 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
8157 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
8158 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
8159 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
8162 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
8163 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
8166 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
8167 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
8168 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
8169 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
8170 24378 and proposal 290.
8171 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
8172 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
8173 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
8174 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
8175 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
8176 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
8177 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
8178 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
8179 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
8180 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
8181 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
8182 their local router. Closes 25409.
8183 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
8184 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
8185 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
8186 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
8187 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
8188 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
8189 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
8190 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
8191 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
8192 Closes ticket 25268.
8195 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
8196 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
8197 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
8199 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
8200 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
8201 be nearly identical to this one.
8203 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
8204 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
8205 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
8206 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
8207 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
8208 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8210 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
8211 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
8212 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
8213 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
8214 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
8215 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
8216 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
8218 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
8219 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
8220 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
8222 o Minor features (config options):
8223 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
8224 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
8225 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
8228 o Minor features (geoip):
8229 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8230 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
8232 o Minor bugfixes (client):
8233 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
8234 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
8235 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
8236 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
8237 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8239 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8240 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
8241 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
8242 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8244 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
8245 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
8246 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
8247 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8248 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
8249 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
8250 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8252 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8253 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
8254 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
8255 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
8256 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8257 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
8258 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8260 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
8261 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
8262 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
8263 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
8264 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
8266 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8267 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
8268 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
8270 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
8271 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
8272 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
8274 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8275 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
8276 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
8278 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
8279 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
8280 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
8284 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
8285 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
8286 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
8287 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
8289 o New system requirements:
8290 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
8291 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
8293 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
8294 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
8295 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
8296 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
8297 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8299 o Minor features (geoip):
8300 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8301 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
8303 o Minor features (log messages):
8304 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
8305 information about memory usage from the different compression
8306 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
8308 o Minor features (sandbox):
8309 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
8310 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
8311 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
8313 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8314 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
8315 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
8316 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
8318 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
8319 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
8320 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
8322 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8323 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
8324 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
8325 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8327 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
8328 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
8329 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
8330 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8332 o Major bugfixes (networking):
8333 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
8334 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
8335 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
8337 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
8338 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
8339 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
8341 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8342 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
8343 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
8344 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
8345 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
8346 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8348 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8349 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
8350 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
8351 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
8353 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
8354 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
8355 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
8356 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
8358 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
8359 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
8360 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
8361 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
8364 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
8365 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
8366 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
8367 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
8368 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8370 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8371 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
8372 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
8376 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
8378 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
8379 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
8382 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
8383 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
8386 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8387 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8389 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
8390 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
8392 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8395 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
8396 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
8397 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
8399 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
8400 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
8401 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
8402 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
8405 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8406 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8407 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8408 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8411 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8412 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8413 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8414 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8415 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8416 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8417 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8418 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8419 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8420 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8421 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8422 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8423 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8425 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8426 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
8427 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
8429 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8430 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8431 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8432 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8433 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8434 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8435 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8437 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8438 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
8439 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8441 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8442 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
8443 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
8444 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
8445 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
8446 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
8447 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8449 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8450 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8451 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8452 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8454 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8455 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
8456 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
8457 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
8459 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8460 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8461 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8462 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8463 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8464 Closes ticket 24978.
8466 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8467 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
8468 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
8469 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
8470 information. Closes ticket 24801.
8471 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
8472 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
8473 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
8474 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
8476 o Minor features (geoip):
8477 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8480 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8481 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8482 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8483 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8484 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8486 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8487 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8488 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8489 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8490 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8492 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8493 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8494 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8495 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8496 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
8499 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8500 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
8501 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
8502 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
8503 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
8504 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
8505 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
8506 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
8507 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
8508 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
8509 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
8512 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
8513 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
8514 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8516 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8517 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
8518 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
8521 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8522 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8523 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8524 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8525 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8526 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8527 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8529 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8530 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
8531 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8532 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
8533 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
8534 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
8535 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
8536 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
8537 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
8540 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
8541 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
8542 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
8543 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
8544 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
8545 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8547 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8548 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
8549 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
8550 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8552 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
8553 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
8554 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
8555 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
8556 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
8559 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8560 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
8561 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
8562 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
8563 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
8564 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8566 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
8567 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
8568 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
8569 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
8570 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
8571 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
8572 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8573 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
8574 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
8575 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8576 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
8577 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8579 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8580 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
8581 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
8582 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8584 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8585 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8586 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8587 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8589 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
8590 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
8591 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
8592 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
8595 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
8596 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
8597 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
8598 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
8599 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
8601 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8602 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8604 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8605 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8607 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8608 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
8609 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
8612 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
8613 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
8616 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8617 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8619 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
8620 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
8622 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8625 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
8626 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
8627 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
8629 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8630 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8631 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8632 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8635 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
8636 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8637 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8638 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8639 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8640 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8641 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8642 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8643 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8644 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8645 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8646 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8647 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8649 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
8650 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
8651 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
8652 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
8653 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
8654 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
8655 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
8656 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
8657 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
8659 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
8660 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8661 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8662 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8663 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8664 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8665 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8667 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
8668 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
8669 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
8670 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
8672 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
8673 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8674 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8675 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8676 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8677 Closes ticket 24978.
8679 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8680 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8681 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8682 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8684 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8685 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
8686 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
8687 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
8688 information. Closes ticket 24801.
8689 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
8690 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
8691 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
8692 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
8694 o Minor features (geoip):
8695 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8698 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8699 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
8700 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
8702 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
8703 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8704 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8705 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8706 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8708 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
8709 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8710 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8711 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8712 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8714 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
8715 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8716 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8717 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8718 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
8721 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8722 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
8723 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8725 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8726 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
8727 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
8730 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8731 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8732 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8733 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8734 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8735 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8736 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8738 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
8739 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
8740 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
8741 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
8742 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
8745 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
8746 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
8747 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
8748 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
8749 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
8750 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8752 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
8753 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8754 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8755 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8757 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
8758 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
8759 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
8760 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
8761 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
8762 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
8763 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8764 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
8765 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
8766 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8767 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
8768 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
8770 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
8771 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
8772 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
8773 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
8776 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8777 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
8778 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
8779 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
8780 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
8782 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8783 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8785 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8786 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8789 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
8790 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
8791 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
8794 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8795 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8797 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
8798 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
8799 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
8800 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
8801 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
8802 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
8805 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
8806 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
8808 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8811 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
8812 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
8813 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
8814 the DoS mitigations.)
8816 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8817 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8818 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8819 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8822 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8823 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
8824 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
8825 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8827 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8828 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8829 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8830 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8831 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8832 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8833 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8834 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8835 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8836 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8837 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8838 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8839 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8841 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8842 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8843 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8844 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8845 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8846 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8847 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8848 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
8849 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
8850 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
8851 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8853 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8854 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
8855 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8857 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8858 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
8859 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
8860 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
8861 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
8862 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
8863 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8865 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8866 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
8867 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
8868 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8870 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8871 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8872 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8873 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8875 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8876 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8877 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8878 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8879 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8880 Closes ticket 24978.
8882 o Minor features (geoip):
8883 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8886 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8887 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
8888 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
8891 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8892 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8893 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8894 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8895 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8897 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8898 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8899 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8900 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8901 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8902 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8903 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8905 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8906 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8907 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8908 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8909 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8911 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8912 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
8913 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
8914 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8916 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8917 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
8918 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
8919 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
8920 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8922 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8923 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
8924 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
8925 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8927 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8928 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
8929 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
8930 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8932 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8933 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8934 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8935 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8937 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8938 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8940 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8941 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8943 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8944 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
8945 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
8947 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8948 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
8949 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
8950 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
8951 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8953 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8954 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
8955 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
8957 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
8958 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
8959 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
8963 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
8964 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
8965 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8966 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8968 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
8969 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
8970 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
8971 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
8972 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
8973 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8975 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8978 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
8979 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
8980 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
8981 the DoS mitigations.)
8983 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
8984 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8985 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8986 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8989 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
8990 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8991 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8992 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8993 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8994 Closes ticket 24978.
8996 o Minor features (logging):
8997 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
8998 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
9000 o Minor features (testing):
9001 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
9004 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
9005 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
9006 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
9007 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
9008 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
9009 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
9010 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
9012 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
9013 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
9014 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
9015 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9016 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
9017 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
9020 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
9021 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
9022 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
9023 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
9025 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
9026 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
9027 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
9028 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
9029 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
9032 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
9033 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
9035 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
9036 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9038 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
9039 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
9040 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9041 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
9043 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9044 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
9045 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
9048 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
9049 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
9050 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
9051 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
9052 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
9053 it to older supported release series.
9055 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
9056 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
9057 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
9058 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
9059 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
9060 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
9061 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
9062 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
9063 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
9064 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
9065 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
9066 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
9067 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
9069 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
9070 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
9071 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
9072 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
9073 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
9074 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
9075 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
9076 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9078 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
9079 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
9080 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9082 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
9083 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
9084 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
9085 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9087 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
9088 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
9089 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
9090 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
9092 o Minor features (directory authority):
9093 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
9094 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
9096 o Minor features (geoip):
9097 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9100 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
9101 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
9102 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
9105 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
9106 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
9107 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
9108 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
9109 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9111 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
9112 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
9113 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
9114 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
9115 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9117 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
9118 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
9119 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
9120 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
9122 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
9123 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
9124 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
9125 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
9126 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9128 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9129 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
9130 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
9131 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
9133 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9134 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
9135 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
9136 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9137 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
9138 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
9139 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
9141 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9142 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
9143 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
9144 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
9145 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9146 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
9147 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
9148 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
9150 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
9151 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
9152 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
9153 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
9154 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
9155 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
9156 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9158 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
9159 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
9160 would call the Rust implementation of
9161 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
9162 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
9163 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
9164 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
9165 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9167 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
9168 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
9169 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
9172 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
9173 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
9174 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
9175 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
9176 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
9177 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9179 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
9180 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
9181 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
9182 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
9183 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9185 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9186 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
9188 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
9189 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
9190 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
9193 o Documentation (man page):
9194 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
9195 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
9199 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
9200 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
9201 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
9202 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
9203 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
9204 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
9207 o Major features (embedding):
9208 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
9209 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
9210 Closes ticket 23684.
9211 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
9212 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
9213 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
9214 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
9215 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
9216 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
9218 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
9219 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
9220 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
9221 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
9222 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
9223 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
9224 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
9225 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
9226 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
9227 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
9228 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
9231 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
9232 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
9233 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
9234 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
9235 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
9236 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
9237 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
9239 o Major features (onion services):
9240 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
9241 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
9242 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
9243 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
9244 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
9247 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
9248 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
9249 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
9250 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
9251 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
9252 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
9253 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
9254 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
9256 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
9257 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
9258 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
9259 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
9260 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
9262 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
9263 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
9264 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
9265 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
9266 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
9267 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
9268 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9270 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
9271 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
9272 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
9273 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
9274 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
9275 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
9276 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9277 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
9278 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
9279 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
9280 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9282 o Major bugfixes (relays):
9283 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
9284 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
9285 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
9286 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
9287 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
9288 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9290 o Minor feature (IPv6):
9291 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
9292 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
9293 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
9294 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
9295 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
9296 Implements ticket 23827.
9298 o Minor features (cleanup):
9299 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
9300 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
9302 o Minor features (defensive programming):
9303 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
9304 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
9305 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
9306 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
9307 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
9308 once. Part of ticket 24337.
9309 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
9310 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
9311 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
9313 o Minor features (embedding):
9314 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
9315 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
9316 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
9317 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
9318 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
9319 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
9320 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
9321 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
9322 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
9323 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
9324 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
9325 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
9326 Closes ticket 23848.
9327 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
9328 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
9329 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
9331 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
9332 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
9333 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
9334 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
9335 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
9336 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
9337 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
9338 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
9341 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
9342 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
9343 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
9344 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
9345 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
9346 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
9347 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
9349 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
9350 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
9351 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
9352 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
9353 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
9354 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
9355 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
9356 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
9357 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
9358 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
9359 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
9360 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
9362 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
9363 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
9364 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
9366 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
9367 Implements ticket 24791.
9369 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
9370 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
9371 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
9372 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
9373 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
9374 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
9376 o Minor features (heartbeat):
9377 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
9378 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
9381 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
9382 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
9383 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
9384 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
9385 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
9387 o Minor features (log messages):
9388 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
9389 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
9390 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
9391 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
9393 o Minor features (logging, android):
9394 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
9397 o Minor features (performance):
9398 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
9399 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
9400 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
9401 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
9403 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
9404 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
9405 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
9406 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
9407 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
9408 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
9409 Implements ticket 24374.
9411 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
9412 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
9413 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
9414 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
9415 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
9417 o Minor features (performance, windows):
9418 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
9419 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
9420 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
9423 o Major features (relay):
9424 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
9425 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
9426 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
9427 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
9428 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
9430 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
9431 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
9432 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
9433 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
9434 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
9435 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
9436 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
9437 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
9438 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
9440 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
9441 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
9442 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
9443 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9445 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
9446 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
9447 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
9448 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
9449 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
9450 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
9451 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9452 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
9453 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
9454 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
9455 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
9456 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
9459 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
9460 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
9461 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
9462 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
9465 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
9466 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
9467 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
9470 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
9471 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
9472 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
9474 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
9475 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9476 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
9477 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
9478 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
9480 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
9481 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
9482 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
9483 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9485 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
9486 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
9487 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9488 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
9489 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
9490 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9492 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9493 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
9494 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
9495 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
9497 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9498 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
9499 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
9500 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
9501 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9502 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
9505 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
9506 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
9507 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
9508 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9510 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
9511 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
9512 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
9513 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9515 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
9516 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
9517 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
9518 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
9519 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
9520 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9521 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
9522 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
9523 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
9524 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
9525 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
9526 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9528 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9529 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
9530 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9531 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
9532 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
9534 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9535 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
9537 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
9538 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
9539 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
9540 "aruna1234" and teor.
9541 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
9542 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
9543 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
9544 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
9546 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
9547 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
9548 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
9549 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
9550 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
9551 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
9552 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
9553 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
9554 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
9555 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
9557 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
9558 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
9561 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
9562 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
9564 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
9565 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
9566 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
9567 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
9568 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
9569 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
9572 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
9573 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
9574 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
9575 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
9576 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
9578 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
9579 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
9580 adding very little except for unit test.
9582 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
9583 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
9584 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
9585 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
9587 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
9588 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
9589 const. Implements ticket 24489.
9592 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
9593 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
9595 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
9596 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
9597 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
9598 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
9599 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
9600 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
9602 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
9603 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
9604 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
9605 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
9606 with the 0.2.9 series.
9608 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
9609 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9611 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
9612 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
9613 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
9614 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
9615 information. Closes ticket 24801.
9616 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
9617 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
9618 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
9619 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
9621 o Minor features (geoip):
9622 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9625 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
9626 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
9627 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
9628 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
9629 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
9632 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9633 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
9634 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9636 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
9637 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
9638 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
9639 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
9643 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
9644 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
9645 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
9646 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
9647 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
9648 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
9649 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
9651 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
9652 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
9653 will be nearly identical to this.
9655 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
9656 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
9657 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
9658 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
9659 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
9660 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
9661 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9663 o Minor features (geoip):
9664 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9667 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
9668 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
9669 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
9670 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9672 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
9673 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
9674 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
9675 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
9676 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
9679 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
9680 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
9681 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
9682 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
9683 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
9684 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9687 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
9688 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
9689 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
9691 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
9692 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
9693 be nearly identical to this.
9695 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
9696 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
9697 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
9698 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
9699 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
9700 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
9701 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9703 o Minor features (logging):
9704 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
9707 o Minor features (portability):
9708 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
9709 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
9712 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
9713 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
9714 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
9715 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
9716 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9717 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
9718 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
9719 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
9720 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9721 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
9722 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
9723 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
9724 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9726 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9727 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
9728 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9730 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9731 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
9732 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
9733 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
9734 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
9735 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
9736 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
9739 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9740 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
9741 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
9742 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
9743 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
9744 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
9745 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9747 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
9748 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
9749 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
9750 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9751 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
9752 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
9753 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
9754 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9755 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
9756 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
9757 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9760 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
9761 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
9762 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
9763 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
9766 o Major bugfixes (security):
9767 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9768 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9769 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9770 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9771 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9772 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9773 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9774 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9775 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9776 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9778 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9779 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9780 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9781 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9782 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9783 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9784 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9787 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
9788 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9789 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9790 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9791 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9793 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
9794 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9795 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9796 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9797 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9798 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9799 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9800 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9801 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9803 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
9804 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
9805 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
9806 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
9808 o Minor features (directory authority):
9809 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9812 o Minor bugfixes (client):
9813 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
9814 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
9815 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9818 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
9819 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
9820 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
9821 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
9823 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9824 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9825 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9826 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9827 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9828 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9829 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9830 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9831 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9832 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9833 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9835 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9836 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9837 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9838 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9839 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9840 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9841 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9844 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9845 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9846 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9847 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9848 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9850 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9851 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9852 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9853 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9854 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9855 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9856 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9857 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9858 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9860 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9861 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9862 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9863 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9864 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9865 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9868 o Minor features (bridge):
9869 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9870 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9871 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9872 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9875 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9876 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9879 o Minor features (geoip):
9880 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9883 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9884 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9885 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9886 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9887 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9889 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9890 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9891 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9893 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9894 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9895 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9896 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9897 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9898 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9900 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
9901 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
9902 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
9905 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9906 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9907 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9908 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9909 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9912 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
9913 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9914 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9915 to another of the releases coming out today.
9917 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
9918 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
9919 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9921 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9922 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9923 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9924 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9925 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9926 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9927 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9928 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9929 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9930 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9931 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9933 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9934 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9935 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9936 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9937 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9938 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9939 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9942 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9943 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9944 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9945 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9946 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9948 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9949 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9950 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9951 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9952 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9953 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9954 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9955 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9956 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9958 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9959 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9960 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9961 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9962 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9963 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9966 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9967 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
9968 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
9969 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
9970 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
9971 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
9973 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9974 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9975 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9976 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9977 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9980 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9981 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9984 o Minor features (geoip):
9985 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9988 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9989 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9990 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9991 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9992 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9994 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9995 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9996 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9998 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9999 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10000 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10001 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10002 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10003 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10005 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10006 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10007 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10008 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10009 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10011 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10012 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10013 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10016 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
10017 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10018 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10019 to another of the releases coming out today.
10021 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10022 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
10023 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
10024 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
10025 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
10026 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
10029 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10030 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10031 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10032 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10033 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10034 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10035 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10036 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10037 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
10038 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
10039 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
10041 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10042 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10043 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10044 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10045 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10046 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10047 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10050 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10051 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10052 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10053 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10054 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10056 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10057 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10058 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10059 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10060 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10061 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10063 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10064 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10065 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10066 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10067 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10070 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10071 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10074 o Minor features (geoip):
10075 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10078 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10079 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
10080 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
10081 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
10082 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
10083 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
10085 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10086 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10087 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10088 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10089 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10091 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10092 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10093 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10095 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10096 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10097 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10098 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10099 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10100 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10102 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10103 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10104 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10105 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10106 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10108 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10109 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10110 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10113 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
10114 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10115 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10116 to another of the releases coming out today.
10118 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10119 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
10120 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10122 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10123 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10124 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10125 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10126 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10127 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10128 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10129 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10130 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10131 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10132 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10133 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10134 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10135 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10136 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10139 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10140 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10141 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10142 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10143 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10145 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10146 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
10147 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
10148 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
10149 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
10152 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10153 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10154 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10155 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10156 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10159 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10160 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10163 o Minor features (geoip):
10164 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10167 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10168 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10169 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10172 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
10173 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10174 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
10175 to another of the releases coming out today.
10177 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
10178 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
10179 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10181 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10182 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10183 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10184 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10185 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10186 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10187 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10188 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10189 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10190 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10191 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10192 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10193 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10194 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10195 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10198 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10199 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10200 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10201 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10202 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10203 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10205 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
10206 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
10207 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
10208 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
10209 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
10212 o Minor features (geoip):
10213 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10217 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
10218 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
10219 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
10220 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
10221 since the 0.3.0.x series.
10223 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
10224 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
10227 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10228 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10229 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10230 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10231 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10232 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10233 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10234 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10235 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10236 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
10237 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
10240 o Minor features (directory authority):
10241 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
10242 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
10243 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
10244 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
10246 o Minor features (geoip):
10247 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10250 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10251 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10252 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10254 o Minor features (logging):
10255 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
10256 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
10258 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
10259 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
10261 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10262 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
10263 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
10264 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
10265 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
10266 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
10267 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
10268 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
10270 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10271 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10272 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10275 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
10276 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
10277 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
10278 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10280 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
10281 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
10282 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10283 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
10284 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
10285 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
10286 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
10287 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
10288 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
10291 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10292 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
10293 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10294 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
10295 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
10296 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
10297 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10299 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
10300 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10301 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10302 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10303 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10304 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10306 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10307 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
10308 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
10309 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
10310 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10311 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
10312 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
10314 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
10315 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
10316 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10318 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
10319 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
10320 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
10321 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
10322 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
10323 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
10324 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
10325 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
10328 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
10329 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
10330 section. Closes ticket 24254.
10333 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
10334 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
10335 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
10336 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
10339 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
10340 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
10341 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
10342 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
10343 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
10344 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
10347 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
10348 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
10349 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
10350 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
10351 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10353 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
10354 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
10355 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
10356 Closes ticket 23753.
10358 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
10359 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
10360 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
10361 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
10362 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
10364 o Minor features (testing):
10365 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
10366 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
10368 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
10369 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
10370 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
10371 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
10372 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10374 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
10375 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
10376 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
10377 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
10378 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
10381 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
10382 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
10383 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
10384 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
10385 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10387 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
10388 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
10389 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
10390 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10392 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10393 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
10394 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
10396 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
10397 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10398 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
10400 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10401 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
10402 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
10403 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10404 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
10405 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10407 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
10408 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10409 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10410 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10411 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10412 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10413 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10414 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10415 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10416 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10417 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10418 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10420 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
10421 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
10422 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
10423 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
10424 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10426 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10427 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
10428 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10429 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
10430 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
10431 Closes ticket 24109.
10434 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
10435 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
10436 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
10437 directory authority, Bastet.
10439 o Directory authority changes:
10440 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10441 Closes ticket 23910.
10442 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10443 Closes ticket 23592.
10445 o Minor features (bridge):
10446 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
10447 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
10448 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
10449 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
10450 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
10451 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
10452 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
10454 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
10455 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
10456 Resolves ticket 23670.
10458 o Minor features (geoip):
10459 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10462 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
10463 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
10464 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
10465 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10467 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10468 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
10469 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10471 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
10472 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
10473 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
10474 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
10475 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
10476 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10478 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
10479 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
10480 only fetch the service descriptor once.
10481 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
10482 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
10483 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10485 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
10486 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
10487 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
10488 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
10490 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
10491 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
10492 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10494 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
10495 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
10496 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
10497 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
10498 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
10500 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
10501 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
10502 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10504 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10505 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
10506 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
10509 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10510 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
10511 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
10512 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
10513 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10514 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
10515 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
10516 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
10518 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
10519 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
10520 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
10521 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
10522 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
10525 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
10526 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
10527 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
10528 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
10529 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
10533 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
10534 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10535 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10537 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
10538 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
10539 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10541 o Directory authority changes:
10542 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10543 Closes ticket 23910.
10544 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10545 Closes ticket 23592.
10547 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10548 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10549 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10550 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10551 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10553 o Minor features (geoip):
10554 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10557 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10558 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10559 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10560 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10561 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10562 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10563 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10564 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10565 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10567 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10568 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10569 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10570 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10571 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10572 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10573 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10574 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10575 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10578 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
10579 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10580 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10581 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10583 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10584 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10585 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10587 o Directory authority changes:
10588 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10589 Closes ticket 23910.
10590 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10591 Closes ticket 23592.
10593 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10594 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10595 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10596 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10598 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10599 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10600 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10601 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10602 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10604 o Minor features (geoip):
10605 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10609 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
10610 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10611 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10612 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10614 o Directory authority changes:
10615 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10616 Closes ticket 23910.
10617 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10618 Closes ticket 23592.
10620 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10621 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10622 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10623 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10625 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10626 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10627 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10628 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10629 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10631 o Minor features (geoip):
10632 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10635 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10636 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10637 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10638 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10639 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10640 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10641 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10642 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10645 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10646 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10647 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10649 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10650 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10651 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10652 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10653 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10654 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10655 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10658 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
10659 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
10660 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
10661 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
10663 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
10664 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
10665 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
10667 o Directory authority changes:
10668 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10669 Closes ticket 23910.
10670 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10671 Closes ticket 23592.
10673 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10674 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10675 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10676 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10678 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10679 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10680 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10681 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10682 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10684 o Minor features (geoip):
10685 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10688 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10689 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10690 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10691 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10692 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10693 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10694 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10695 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10698 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10699 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10700 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10701 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10703 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10704 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10705 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10707 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10708 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10709 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10710 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10711 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10712 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10713 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10716 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
10717 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
10718 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
10719 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
10720 a new directory authority, Bastet.
10722 o Directory authority changes:
10723 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10724 Closes ticket 23910.
10725 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10726 Closes ticket 23592.
10728 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10729 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10730 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10731 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10733 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10734 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10735 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10736 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10737 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10739 o Minor features (geoip):
10740 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10743 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10744 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
10745 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
10746 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
10748 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10749 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
10750 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
10753 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
10754 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
10755 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
10757 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10758 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10759 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10760 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10762 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10763 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
10764 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10766 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
10767 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
10768 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
10772 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
10773 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
10774 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
10775 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
10776 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
10777 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
10779 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
10780 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
10781 include better testing and logging.
10783 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
10786 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
10787 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10788 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10789 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10791 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
10792 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
10793 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
10794 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
10795 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
10796 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
10797 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10799 o Minor features (build, compilation):
10800 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
10801 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
10802 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
10803 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
10804 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
10805 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
10806 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
10807 Closes ticket 23643.
10809 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10810 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10811 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10812 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10813 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10815 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
10816 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
10817 the circuit identifier(s).
10818 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
10819 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
10821 o Minor features (logging):
10822 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
10823 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
10824 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
10825 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
10826 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
10828 o Minor features (relay):
10829 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
10830 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
10831 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
10832 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
10834 o Minor features (robustness):
10835 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
10836 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
10838 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
10839 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
10840 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
10841 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
10842 related to ticket 23080.
10844 o Minor features (testing):
10845 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
10846 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
10849 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10850 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
10851 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
10853 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
10854 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
10857 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
10858 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
10859 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
10860 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
10861 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
10862 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
10863 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
10864 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
10865 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10867 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
10868 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
10869 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
10872 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10873 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
10874 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
10875 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10877 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
10878 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
10879 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
10880 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
10881 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10882 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
10883 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
10884 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
10887 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
10888 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
10889 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
10890 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10892 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
10893 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
10894 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
10895 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
10896 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
10897 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10899 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
10900 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
10901 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
10902 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10903 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
10904 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
10905 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10906 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
10907 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10908 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
10909 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
10911 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
10912 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
10913 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
10914 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10915 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
10916 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10918 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10919 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
10920 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
10922 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
10923 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
10925 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
10926 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
10927 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10929 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10930 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
10931 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
10934 o Deprecated features:
10935 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
10936 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
10937 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
10940 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
10941 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10942 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
10943 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
10944 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
10945 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
10946 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
10947 Closes ticket 18736.
10950 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
10951 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
10952 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
10953 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
10954 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
10955 features and bugfixes here.
10957 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
10959 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
10960 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
10961 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
10962 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
10963 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
10964 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
10965 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
10966 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
10967 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
10968 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
10969 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
10970 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
10972 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
10973 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
10974 more information, see the design paper at
10975 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
10976 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
10977 Closes ticket 12541.
10979 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
10980 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
10981 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
10982 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
10983 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
10984 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
10987 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
10988 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
10990 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
10993 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
10996 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
10998 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
11000 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
11002 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
11003 they are 56 characters long, as in
11004 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
11006 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
11007 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
11008 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
11009 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
11010 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
11013 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
11014 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
11015 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
11016 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
11017 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
11018 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
11021 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
11022 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
11023 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
11024 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
11026 o Minor features (bug detection):
11027 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
11028 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
11029 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
11031 o Minor features (client):
11032 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
11033 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
11034 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
11035 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
11036 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
11037 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
11038 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
11039 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
11040 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
11041 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
11043 o Minor features (command line):
11044 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
11045 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
11046 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
11048 o Minor features (control port):
11049 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
11050 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
11051 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
11053 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
11054 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
11056 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
11057 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
11058 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
11059 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
11060 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
11061 Closes ticket 23237.
11062 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
11063 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
11065 o Minor features (development support):
11066 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
11067 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
11068 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
11069 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
11070 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
11071 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
11073 o Minor features (ed25519):
11074 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
11075 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
11076 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
11078 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
11079 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
11080 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
11082 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
11083 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
11084 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
11085 another program, regardless of the settings of
11086 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
11087 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
11088 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
11090 o Minor features (logging):
11091 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
11092 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
11093 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
11095 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
11096 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
11098 o Minor features (portability):
11099 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
11100 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
11101 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
11102 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
11104 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
11105 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
11106 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
11107 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
11108 results. Closes ticket 22731.
11110 o Minor features (startup, safety):
11111 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
11112 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
11115 o Minor features (static analysis):
11116 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
11117 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
11120 o Minor features (testing):
11121 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
11122 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
11123 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
11124 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
11125 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
11127 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
11128 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
11129 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
11130 Coverity as CID 1415728.
11132 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
11133 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
11134 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
11135 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
11136 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
11137 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
11138 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
11139 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11141 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11142 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
11143 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
11144 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
11145 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11146 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
11147 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
11148 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
11150 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11151 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11152 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11154 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
11155 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
11156 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
11157 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
11159 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
11160 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
11161 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
11162 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
11163 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
11164 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
11166 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
11167 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
11170 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
11171 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
11172 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
11173 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11175 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
11176 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
11177 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
11178 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
11179 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
11180 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
11181 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
11184 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
11185 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
11186 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
11187 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11189 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
11190 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
11191 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11193 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11194 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
11195 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
11196 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11197 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
11198 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
11200 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
11201 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
11202 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
11204 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
11205 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
11206 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
11208 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
11209 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
11210 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
11211 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
11213 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11214 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
11215 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11217 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11218 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
11219 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
11220 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
11221 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11222 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11223 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11224 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11226 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
11227 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
11228 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
11229 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11230 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
11231 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
11232 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11234 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
11235 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
11236 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
11237 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11239 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11240 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
11241 function from the general code to handle channel state
11242 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
11243 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
11244 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
11245 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
11246 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
11247 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
11248 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
11249 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
11251 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
11252 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
11254 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
11255 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
11256 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
11257 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
11258 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
11259 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
11260 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
11261 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
11262 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
11263 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
11264 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
11265 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
11267 o Deprecated features:
11268 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
11269 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
11270 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
11274 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
11275 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
11276 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
11277 Closes ticket 15645.
11278 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
11279 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
11280 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
11281 file. Closes ticket 21148.
11283 o Removed features:
11284 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
11285 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
11286 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
11287 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
11288 Closes ticket 21031.
11289 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
11290 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
11293 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
11294 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
11297 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
11298 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
11299 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
11300 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11302 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
11303 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
11304 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
11305 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
11307 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11308 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11309 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11310 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11311 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11314 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11317 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11318 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
11319 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
11322 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11323 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11324 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11325 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11326 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11327 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11328 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11329 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11330 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11332 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11333 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11334 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11335 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11336 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11337 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11338 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11339 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11340 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11343 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
11344 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
11347 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
11348 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
11349 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
11350 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11352 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
11353 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
11354 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
11355 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
11356 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
11357 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
11358 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
11360 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
11361 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
11362 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
11363 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
11365 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
11366 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
11367 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11369 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11370 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11371 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11372 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11374 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11375 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11376 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11377 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11378 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11380 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11381 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
11382 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
11383 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
11385 o Minor features (geoip):
11386 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11389 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11390 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11391 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11392 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11394 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11395 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
11396 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11397 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
11398 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11399 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
11400 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
11401 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11403 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11404 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
11405 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11407 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11408 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
11409 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
11412 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11413 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
11414 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11415 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
11416 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11418 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11419 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11420 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11421 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11422 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11423 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11425 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11426 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11427 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11428 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11429 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11430 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11431 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11432 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11433 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11435 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11436 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
11437 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
11438 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11440 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11441 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11442 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11444 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11445 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11446 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11447 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11448 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11450 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
11451 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
11452 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
11455 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11456 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
11457 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
11458 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11459 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11461 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11462 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11463 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11464 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11465 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11466 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11467 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11468 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11469 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11472 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
11473 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
11476 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
11477 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
11478 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
11479 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11481 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11482 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
11483 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
11484 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
11487 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11490 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11491 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
11492 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11494 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
11495 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
11496 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11497 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
11498 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11500 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11501 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
11502 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
11503 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11505 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11506 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
11507 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
11509 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
11510 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
11511 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
11512 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11515 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
11516 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
11518 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
11519 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
11520 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
11521 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
11522 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
11523 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
11524 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
11526 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
11527 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
11528 disabled. For more information, see
11529 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11531 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11532 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11533 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11534 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11535 with the 0.2.9 series.
11537 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
11538 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11540 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
11541 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
11542 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
11543 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
11544 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
11546 o Minor features (defensive programming):
11547 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
11548 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
11549 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
11552 o Minor features (diagnostic):
11553 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
11554 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
11555 attempt for bug 23105.
11557 o Minor features (geoip):
11558 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11561 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11562 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
11563 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11565 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11566 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
11567 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11568 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
11569 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11571 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11572 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
11573 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
11574 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11576 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
11577 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
11578 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
11582 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
11583 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
11584 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
11585 Windows directory caches.
11587 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
11588 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
11589 will be nearly identical to it.
11591 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
11592 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
11593 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
11594 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
11595 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
11596 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11598 o Minor features (directory authority):
11599 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
11600 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
11601 Closes ticket 22348.
11603 o Minor features (geoip):
11604 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11607 o Minor features (testing):
11608 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
11611 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
11612 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
11613 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11615 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
11616 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
11617 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
11618 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
11619 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
11620 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
11621 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
11622 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
11623 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
11624 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11626 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
11627 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
11628 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
11630 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
11631 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
11632 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
11633 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11635 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11636 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
11637 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
11638 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
11639 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11641 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
11642 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
11643 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
11644 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
11645 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
11646 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
11648 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
11649 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
11650 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
11651 with the clang static analyzer.
11653 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11654 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11655 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11656 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
11657 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
11660 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
11661 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
11662 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
11663 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
11664 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
11665 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11666 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
11669 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
11670 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
11671 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
11672 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
11674 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11675 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11676 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11677 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11678 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11679 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11680 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11681 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11682 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11684 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11685 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11686 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11687 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11689 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11690 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11691 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11692 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11693 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11695 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11696 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11699 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
11700 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11701 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11702 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11704 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11705 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
11706 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11707 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
11708 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11709 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
11710 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
11711 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
11714 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11715 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
11716 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
11719 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11720 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11721 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11722 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11723 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11724 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11726 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11727 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
11728 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
11729 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11731 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11732 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11733 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11735 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
11736 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
11737 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11740 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
11741 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
11742 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
11743 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
11744 next version will be a release candidate.
11746 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
11747 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
11748 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
11749 one of those versions should upgrade.
11751 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
11752 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11753 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11754 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11755 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11756 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11757 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11758 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11759 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11761 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
11762 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11763 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11764 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11765 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11767 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
11768 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
11769 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
11770 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
11771 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
11772 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11774 o Minor features (bridge authority):
11775 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
11776 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
11778 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
11779 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
11780 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
11781 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
11782 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
11785 o Minor features (geoip):
11786 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11789 o Minor features (relay, performance):
11790 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
11791 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
11792 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
11793 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
11794 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
11797 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
11798 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
11799 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
11800 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
11801 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
11803 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
11804 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
11805 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
11806 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
11807 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11809 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
11810 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
11811 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11812 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
11813 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11814 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
11815 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
11816 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11817 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
11818 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
11819 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
11822 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
11823 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
11824 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
11825 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
11826 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
11827 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11829 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11830 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
11831 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
11832 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
11833 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
11834 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
11835 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
11836 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
11839 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
11840 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
11841 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
11844 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
11845 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
11846 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
11847 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11849 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11850 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
11851 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11853 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11854 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
11855 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
11856 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
11858 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
11859 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
11860 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
11861 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
11862 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11863 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
11864 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11867 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
11868 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
11869 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
11870 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
11871 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
11874 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
11875 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
11878 o New dependencies:
11879 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
11880 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
11881 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
11882 close ticket 22623.)
11884 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
11885 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
11886 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
11887 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
11888 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
11889 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
11891 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
11892 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
11893 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
11894 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11896 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
11897 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
11898 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
11899 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
11900 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11902 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
11903 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
11904 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
11905 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11907 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
11908 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
11909 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
11910 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
11912 o Minor features (geoip):
11913 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11916 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
11917 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
11918 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
11920 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
11921 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11922 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
11923 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
11924 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
11925 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
11927 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
11928 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
11930 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
11931 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
11932 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
11933 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
11934 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11936 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
11937 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
11938 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
11939 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
11940 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11941 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11942 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11943 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11944 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11945 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11946 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11947 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11949 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11950 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11951 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11952 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11953 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11954 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
11955 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
11956 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
11957 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11959 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11960 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
11961 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
11962 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
11963 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
11964 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
11965 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11966 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
11967 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
11968 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
11969 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11970 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
11971 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
11972 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
11973 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
11974 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11976 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
11977 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
11978 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
11979 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
11980 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
11981 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
11982 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
11986 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
11988 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
11989 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
11991 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
11992 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
11993 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
11997 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
11998 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
11999 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
12000 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
12001 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
12004 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
12007 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12008 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
12009 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
12010 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
12011 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
12012 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
12014 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12015 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
12016 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
12017 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12019 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12020 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
12021 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
12022 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12024 o Minor features (geoip):
12025 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12028 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12029 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12030 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12031 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12032 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12034 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12035 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
12036 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
12037 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
12038 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12040 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12041 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12042 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12043 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12044 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12045 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12046 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12047 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12048 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12051 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
12052 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
12053 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12054 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12055 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
12057 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
12058 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
12059 bugfixes described below.
12061 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12062 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
12063 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
12064 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12065 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12066 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12067 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12070 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
12071 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
12072 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
12073 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
12074 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
12075 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
12076 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
12079 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
12080 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
12081 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
12082 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
12083 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
12084 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
12085 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
12086 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12087 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
12088 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
12089 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
12090 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
12091 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
12094 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
12095 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
12096 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
12098 o Minor features (code style):
12099 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12100 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12101 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12103 o Minor features (diagnostic):
12104 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
12105 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
12106 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
12107 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
12109 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12110 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12111 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12113 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
12114 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
12115 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12117 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
12118 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
12119 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
12120 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
12121 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
12122 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
12123 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12125 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
12126 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
12127 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
12128 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
12129 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12131 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
12132 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
12133 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
12137 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
12140 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
12141 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
12142 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12143 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12144 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
12146 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
12147 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
12148 bugfixes described below.
12150 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
12151 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12152 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
12153 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
12154 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12155 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12156 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12157 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12160 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12161 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
12162 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
12163 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
12164 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
12165 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
12166 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
12169 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12170 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
12171 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
12172 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
12173 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
12174 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
12175 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
12176 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12177 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
12178 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
12179 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
12180 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
12181 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
12184 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12185 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
12186 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
12189 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12190 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12191 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12192 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12193 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12195 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12196 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
12197 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12199 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12200 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12201 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12203 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12204 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
12205 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
12206 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
12207 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
12208 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
12209 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12211 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
12213 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
12214 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
12215 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12218 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
12219 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12220 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12221 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12222 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12223 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12225 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
12226 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
12227 bugfixes described below.
12229 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
12230 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12231 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12232 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12233 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12236 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12237 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
12238 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
12239 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
12240 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
12241 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
12242 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
12245 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12246 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12247 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12248 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12249 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12251 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
12252 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
12253 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
12254 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
12255 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
12256 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
12257 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
12259 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
12260 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
12261 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
12262 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
12263 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
12265 o Minor features (geoip):
12266 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12269 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
12270 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
12271 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
12272 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12274 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12275 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12276 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12278 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
12279 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
12280 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
12281 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
12282 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
12285 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
12286 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
12287 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
12288 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
12289 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12291 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
12292 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12293 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12294 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12295 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12296 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12298 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12299 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12300 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12301 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12304 o Minor features (geoip):
12305 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12308 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12309 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12310 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12311 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12312 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12314 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12315 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12316 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12318 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
12319 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12320 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12321 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12322 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12323 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12325 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12326 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12327 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12328 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12331 o Minor features (geoip):
12332 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12335 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12336 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12337 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12340 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
12341 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12342 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12343 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12344 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12345 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12347 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12348 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12349 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12350 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12353 o Minor features (geoip):
12354 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12357 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12358 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12359 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12361 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
12362 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12363 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12364 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12365 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12366 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12368 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12369 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12370 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12371 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12374 o Minor features (geoip):
12375 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12378 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12379 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12380 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12382 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
12383 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
12384 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12385 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12386 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
12387 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
12389 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12390 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12391 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12392 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12395 o Minor features (geoip):
12396 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12399 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12400 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12401 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12404 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
12405 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
12406 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
12407 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
12409 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
12410 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
12411 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
12412 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
12413 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12415 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12416 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
12417 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
12420 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
12421 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
12422 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
12423 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12426 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
12427 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
12428 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
12429 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
12430 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
12433 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
12434 security, correctness, and performance.
12436 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
12438 o Major features (directory protocol):
12439 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
12440 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
12441 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
12442 now request these documents when available. When both client and
12443 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
12444 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
12445 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
12446 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
12447 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
12448 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
12449 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
12450 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
12451 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
12452 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
12453 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
12454 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
12455 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
12457 o Major features (experimental):
12458 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
12459 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
12460 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
12461 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
12462 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
12463 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
12464 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
12466 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
12467 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
12468 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
12469 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
12470 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
12471 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
12474 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
12475 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
12476 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
12477 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
12478 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
12479 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
12480 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
12481 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
12482 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
12483 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
12484 multiples of 10000.
12486 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
12487 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
12488 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
12489 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
12490 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
12491 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
12492 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
12493 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
12494 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12495 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
12496 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
12497 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
12498 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
12499 Otherwise it is at info.
12501 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
12502 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
12503 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
12504 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12506 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
12507 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12508 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12509 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12511 o Minor features (security, windows):
12512 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12513 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12514 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12515 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12516 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12518 o Minor features (config options):
12519 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
12520 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
12521 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
12522 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
12523 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
12524 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
12525 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
12526 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
12528 o Minor features (controller):
12529 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
12530 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
12532 o Minor features (defaults):
12533 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
12534 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
12535 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
12536 can. Closes ticket 21407.
12537 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
12538 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
12539 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
12540 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
12541 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
12542 Closes ticket 21641.
12544 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
12545 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
12546 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
12547 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12548 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12549 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12550 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12552 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
12553 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
12554 introduction points than specified in
12555 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
12556 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
12557 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
12558 21594; closes ticket 21622.
12559 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
12560 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
12561 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
12562 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
12564 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12565 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
12566 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
12567 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
12568 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
12569 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
12570 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
12571 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
12572 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
12573 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
12575 o Minor features (logging):
12576 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
12577 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
12578 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
12579 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
12582 o Minor features (performance):
12583 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
12584 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
12586 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
12587 speed some controller functions.
12589 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
12590 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
12591 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
12592 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
12594 o Minor features (safety):
12595 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
12596 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
12597 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
12600 o Minor features (testing):
12601 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
12602 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
12603 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
12604 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
12605 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
12606 on. Closes ticket 21439.
12607 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
12608 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
12609 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
12610 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
12611 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
12612 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
12613 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
12614 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
12615 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
12616 21507. Partially implements 21470.
12618 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
12619 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12620 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12621 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12623 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12624 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
12625 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
12626 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
12629 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12630 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
12631 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12633 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
12634 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
12635 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
12636 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
12637 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
12638 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
12639 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12640 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
12641 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
12642 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
12643 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
12644 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
12645 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
12646 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
12648 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12649 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
12650 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12651 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
12652 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
12653 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
12654 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
12655 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12657 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
12658 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
12659 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
12660 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12661 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
12662 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
12663 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
12665 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
12666 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
12667 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
12668 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
12669 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
12671 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12672 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
12673 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12674 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
12675 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
12676 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12677 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
12678 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12679 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
12680 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
12681 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12683 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12684 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
12685 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
12686 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12687 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
12688 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
12689 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12691 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
12692 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
12693 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
12695 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
12696 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
12697 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
12698 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
12699 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
12701 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12702 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
12703 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
12704 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12705 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
12706 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12707 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
12708 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
12709 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
12710 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
12712 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
12713 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12714 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12715 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12716 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12718 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
12719 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
12720 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12722 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12723 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
12724 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
12725 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
12726 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
12727 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
12728 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
12729 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
12730 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
12731 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
12732 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
12733 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
12735 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
12736 Resolves ticket 22213.
12737 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
12738 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
12739 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
12740 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
12741 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
12742 types. Closes ticket 21651.
12743 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
12744 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
12747 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
12748 Closes ticket 21873.
12749 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
12750 Closes ticket 21151.
12751 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
12752 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
12754 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
12755 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12756 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
12757 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
12759 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
12760 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
12761 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
12762 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
12763 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
12764 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
12765 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
12766 default behavior is now unavailable.
12767 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
12768 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
12769 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
12770 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
12771 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
12772 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
12773 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
12775 o Removed features (tools):
12776 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
12777 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
12778 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
12779 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
12780 required. Closes ticket 21842.
12783 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
12784 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
12785 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
12786 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
12787 clients are not affected.
12789 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
12790 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
12791 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
12792 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
12793 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
12794 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12797 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12800 o Minor features (future-proofing):
12801 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
12802 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
12803 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
12804 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
12805 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
12806 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
12808 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12809 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
12810 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
12811 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
12812 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
12816 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
12817 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
12819 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
12820 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
12821 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
12822 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
12823 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
12824 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
12827 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
12828 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
12830 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
12831 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
12832 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
12833 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
12834 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
12836 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
12837 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
12839 o Minor features (geoip):
12840 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12843 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
12844 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
12845 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
12846 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12848 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
12849 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
12850 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
12851 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12854 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
12855 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
12856 0.3.0 release series.
12858 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
12859 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
12860 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
12863 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
12864 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
12865 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
12866 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12868 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
12869 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
12870 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
12871 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12872 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
12874 o Minor features (geoip):
12875 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12878 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
12879 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
12880 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
12881 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
12884 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12885 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
12886 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
12887 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12888 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
12889 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
12890 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
12891 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12893 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12894 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
12895 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12897 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12898 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
12899 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
12902 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
12903 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
12904 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
12905 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
12906 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12909 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
12910 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
12911 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
12915 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
12916 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
12917 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
12918 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12919 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
12922 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
12923 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
12924 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12926 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12927 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12928 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12929 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12930 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12931 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12932 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12934 o Minor features (geoip):
12935 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12939 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
12940 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12941 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
12942 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12945 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
12946 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12947 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12949 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12950 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12952 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12953 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12954 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12956 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12957 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12958 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12961 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12962 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12963 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12964 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12965 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12966 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12967 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12968 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12969 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12971 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12972 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12973 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12974 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12975 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12976 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12977 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12978 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12979 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12980 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12981 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12982 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12983 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12985 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12986 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12987 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12988 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12989 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12991 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12992 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12993 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12995 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12996 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12997 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12998 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12999 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13000 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13001 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13004 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13005 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13006 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13007 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13008 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13009 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13010 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13012 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13013 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13014 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13015 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13018 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13019 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13020 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13021 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13023 o Minor features (geoip):
13024 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13028 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
13029 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
13030 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
13031 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13034 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
13035 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
13036 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13038 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
13039 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13041 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
13042 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13043 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13045 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13046 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13047 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13050 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13051 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13052 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13053 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13054 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13055 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13056 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13057 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13058 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13060 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
13061 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13062 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13063 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13064 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13065 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13066 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13067 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13068 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13070 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13071 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
13072 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
13073 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
13074 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13076 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
13077 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
13078 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
13079 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
13080 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
13083 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13084 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13085 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13086 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13087 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13089 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13090 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13091 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13093 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13094 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
13095 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
13096 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
13097 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
13098 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
13101 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13102 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13103 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13104 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13105 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13106 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13107 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13110 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13111 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13112 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13113 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13114 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13115 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13116 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13118 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13119 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13120 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13121 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13124 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13125 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13126 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13127 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13129 o Minor features (geoip):
13130 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13133 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13134 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
13135 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
13138 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
13139 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
13140 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
13141 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13144 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
13145 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
13146 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13148 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
13149 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13151 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
13152 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13153 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13155 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13156 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13157 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13160 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13161 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13162 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13163 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13164 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13165 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13166 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13167 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13168 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13170 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
13171 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13172 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13173 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13174 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13175 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13176 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13177 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13178 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13180 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13181 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
13182 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
13183 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
13184 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13186 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
13187 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
13188 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
13189 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
13190 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
13193 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13194 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13195 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13196 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13197 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13199 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13200 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13201 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13203 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13204 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
13205 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
13206 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
13207 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
13208 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
13211 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13212 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13213 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13214 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13215 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13216 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13217 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13220 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13221 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13222 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13223 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13224 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13225 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13226 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13228 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13229 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13230 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13231 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13234 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13235 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13236 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13237 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13239 o Minor features (geoip):
13240 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13243 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13244 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
13245 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
13247 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
13248 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
13249 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
13250 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
13251 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
13252 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
13254 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13255 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
13256 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
13260 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
13261 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
13262 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
13263 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13266 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
13267 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
13268 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13270 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
13271 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13273 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
13274 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13275 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13277 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13278 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13279 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13282 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13283 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13284 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13285 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13286 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13287 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13288 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13289 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13290 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13292 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
13293 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13294 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13295 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13296 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13297 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13298 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13299 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13300 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13302 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
13303 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
13304 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
13305 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
13306 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
13309 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13310 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13311 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13312 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13313 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13315 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13316 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13317 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13319 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13320 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
13321 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
13322 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
13323 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
13324 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
13327 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13328 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13329 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13330 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13331 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13332 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13333 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13336 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13337 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13338 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13339 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13340 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13341 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13342 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13344 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13345 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13346 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13347 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13350 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13351 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13352 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13353 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13355 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13356 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
13357 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
13358 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
13360 o Minor features (geoip):
13361 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13364 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
13365 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
13366 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
13368 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13369 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
13370 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
13374 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
13375 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
13376 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
13377 keep them from coming back.
13379 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
13380 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
13381 will be nearly identical to it.
13383 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
13384 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
13385 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
13386 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
13387 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
13388 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13390 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
13391 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
13392 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13394 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
13395 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
13396 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
13397 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
13398 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
13399 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
13400 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
13401 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
13402 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
13403 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13404 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13405 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13406 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13407 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13408 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13410 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
13411 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
13412 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
13414 o Minor features (directory authorities):
13415 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
13416 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
13418 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
13419 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
13420 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13421 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
13422 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
13423 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
13424 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
13426 o Minor features (geoip):
13427 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13430 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
13431 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
13432 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
13435 o Minor features (testing):
13436 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
13437 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
13438 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
13440 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
13441 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
13442 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
13444 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13445 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
13446 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
13447 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
13448 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
13449 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13451 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
13452 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
13453 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
13454 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13455 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
13456 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
13457 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
13460 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
13461 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
13462 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
13463 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13464 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
13465 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
13466 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13468 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13469 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
13470 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
13471 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
13472 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
13473 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13475 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13476 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
13477 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
13479 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
13480 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13481 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
13482 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
13483 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13486 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
13489 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
13490 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
13491 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
13492 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
13494 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
13495 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
13496 least January of 2020.
13498 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13499 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
13500 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
13501 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
13504 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13505 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
13506 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
13507 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
13508 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
13509 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
13510 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13512 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
13513 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13514 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13515 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13516 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13517 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13518 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13520 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
13521 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
13522 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
13524 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
13525 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
13526 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13528 o Minor features (geoip):
13529 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13532 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13533 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
13534 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
13536 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
13537 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
13539 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
13540 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
13541 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
13543 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
13544 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
13545 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
13546 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13547 Patch by "junglefowl".
13550 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
13551 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
13552 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
13553 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
13554 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
13555 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
13557 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
13558 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
13559 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
13562 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
13563 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
13564 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
13565 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
13567 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
13568 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
13569 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
13570 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
13571 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13573 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
13574 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
13575 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
13576 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
13577 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13579 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
13580 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
13581 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
13582 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
13583 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
13584 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
13585 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13587 o Minor feature (client):
13588 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
13589 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
13591 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
13592 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
13593 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
13594 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
13596 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
13597 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
13598 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
13599 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
13600 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
13602 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
13603 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
13604 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
13605 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
13606 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
13607 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
13608 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
13609 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
13610 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
13611 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
13613 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
13614 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
13615 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
13617 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
13618 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
13620 o Minor features (relay):
13621 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
13622 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
13623 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
13624 Written by Michael Sonntag.
13626 o Minor bugfix (logging):
13627 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
13628 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
13629 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
13630 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
13633 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13634 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
13635 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
13636 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13638 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
13639 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
13640 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
13642 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
13643 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13644 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
13645 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
13646 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13647 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
13648 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
13650 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
13651 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
13652 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
13653 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
13654 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
13655 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
13656 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
13659 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13660 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
13661 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13663 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13664 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
13665 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
13666 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
13667 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13668 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
13669 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
13670 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
13672 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
13673 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
13674 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13676 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13677 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
13678 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
13679 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
13681 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
13682 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
13683 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
13684 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13686 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
13687 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
13688 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
13689 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13690 Patch by "junglefowl".
13692 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
13693 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
13694 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
13698 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
13699 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
13700 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
13701 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
13702 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
13703 version should upgrade.
13705 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
13706 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
13707 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
13708 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
13709 the set of fallback directories, and more.
13711 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
13712 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
13713 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
13714 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
13715 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
13716 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
13719 o Major features (security):
13720 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13721 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13722 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13723 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13724 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13725 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13727 o Major features (directory authority, security):
13728 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
13729 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
13730 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
13732 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
13733 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
13734 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
13735 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
13736 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
13739 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
13740 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
13741 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
13742 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
13743 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
13744 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
13745 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
13746 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
13747 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
13748 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
13749 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13751 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
13752 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13753 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13755 o Minor features (controller):
13756 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
13757 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
13759 o Minor features (entry guards):
13760 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
13761 break regression tests.
13762 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
13763 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
13765 o Minor features (fallback directories):
13766 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
13768 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
13769 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
13770 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
13771 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
13772 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
13773 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
13774 Closes ticket 20539.
13775 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
13777 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
13778 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
13779 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
13780 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
13781 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
13783 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
13784 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
13785 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
13786 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
13787 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
13788 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
13789 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
13790 Closes ticket 20822.
13791 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
13792 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
13794 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
13795 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13798 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
13799 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
13800 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
13801 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
13803 o Minor features (linting):
13804 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
13805 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
13807 o Minor features (logging):
13808 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
13809 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
13811 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
13812 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
13813 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
13814 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
13815 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
13816 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
13818 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
13819 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
13820 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
13821 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
13823 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13824 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
13825 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
13828 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
13829 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
13830 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
13831 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13833 o Minor bugfixes (config):
13834 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
13835 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
13836 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
13837 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13839 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13840 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
13841 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
13844 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
13845 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
13846 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
13847 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
13848 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13850 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
13851 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
13852 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
13854 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13855 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
13856 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13857 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
13858 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
13859 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
13860 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13861 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
13862 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13864 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
13865 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
13866 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
13867 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13869 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13870 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
13871 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
13872 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13873 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
13874 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13876 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
13877 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
13878 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13879 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
13880 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
13881 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
13882 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
13883 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
13885 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13886 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
13887 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13889 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
13890 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
13891 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
13892 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
13894 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
13895 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13897 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13898 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
13899 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
13900 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
13901 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
13903 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13904 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
13905 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13907 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13908 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
13909 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
13910 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
13911 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13913 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13914 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
13915 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
13917 o Documentation (formatting):
13918 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
13919 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
13921 o Documentation (man page):
13922 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
13923 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
13926 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
13927 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
13928 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
13929 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
13930 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
13931 version should upgrade.
13933 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
13934 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
13936 o Major bugfixes (security):
13937 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
13938 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
13939 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
13940 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
13941 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
13942 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13944 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
13945 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
13946 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
13947 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
13948 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
13949 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
13950 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
13951 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
13952 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
13953 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
13954 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13956 o Minor features (geoip):
13957 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13960 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13961 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
13962 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
13963 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
13965 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
13966 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13969 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
13970 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
13971 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
13972 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
13973 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
13974 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
13975 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
13976 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
13978 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
13980 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
13981 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
13982 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
13983 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
13984 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
13987 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
13988 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
13989 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
13990 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
13991 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
13992 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
13993 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
13994 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
13997 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
13998 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
13999 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
14000 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
14001 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
14003 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
14004 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
14005 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
14006 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
14007 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
14008 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
14009 15056; part of proposal 220.
14010 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
14011 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
14012 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
14013 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
14014 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
14016 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
14017 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
14018 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
14019 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
14020 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14022 o Minor features (controller):
14023 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
14024 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
14027 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
14028 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
14029 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
14032 o Minor features (directory authority):
14033 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
14034 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
14035 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
14036 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
14037 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
14039 o Minor features (directory cache):
14040 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
14041 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
14044 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
14045 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
14046 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
14047 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
14049 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
14050 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
14051 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
14052 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
14054 o Minor features (infrastructure):
14055 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
14056 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
14058 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14059 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
14060 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
14061 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
14063 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14064 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
14065 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14066 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
14067 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
14068 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
14070 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
14071 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
14072 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
14073 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
14074 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
14076 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
14077 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
14078 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
14079 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
14080 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14082 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
14083 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
14084 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
14085 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
14086 on all recent tor versions.
14087 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
14088 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
14089 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
14090 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14092 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
14093 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
14094 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14096 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14097 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
14098 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
14099 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
14102 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
14103 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
14104 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
14107 o Minor bugfixes (util):
14108 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
14109 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
14110 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
14111 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
14113 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
14114 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
14115 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
14116 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
14118 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14119 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
14120 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
14121 Closes ticket 19858.
14122 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
14123 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
14124 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
14125 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
14126 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
14127 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
14128 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
14129 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
14130 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
14131 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
14132 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
14133 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
14134 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
14135 redundant with the similar structures used in the
14136 channel abstraction.
14137 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
14138 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
14139 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
14140 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
14141 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
14142 replaced with code automatically generated by the
14146 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
14147 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14148 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
14149 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
14151 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
14152 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
14154 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
14155 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
14156 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
14157 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
14158 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
14161 o Removed features:
14162 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
14163 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
14164 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
14166 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
14167 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
14168 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
14171 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
14172 from "overcaffeinated".
14173 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
14174 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
14175 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
14176 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
14177 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
14181 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
14182 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
14183 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
14184 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
14185 become available for their systems.
14187 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
14190 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
14191 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
14193 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
14194 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14195 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14196 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14197 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14198 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14199 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14200 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14201 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14203 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
14204 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
14205 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
14206 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
14207 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
14209 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
14210 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14214 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
14215 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
14217 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
14218 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
14219 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
14220 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
14221 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
14222 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
14223 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
14224 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
14226 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
14228 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
14229 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
14230 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
14231 become available for their systems.
14233 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
14234 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
14236 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
14237 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14238 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14239 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14240 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14241 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14242 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14243 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14244 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14246 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
14247 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
14248 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
14249 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
14250 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
14253 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
14254 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
14255 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
14258 o Minor features (geoip):
14259 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14262 o Minor bugfix (build):
14263 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
14264 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
14265 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14267 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14268 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
14269 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
14270 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
14272 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
14273 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
14274 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
14276 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14277 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
14278 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
14281 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
14282 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
14283 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14284 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
14285 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
14286 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14288 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14289 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
14290 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
14291 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14293 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14294 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
14295 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
14297 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14298 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
14299 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
14300 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
14301 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
14302 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
14303 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14304 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
14305 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
14306 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
14309 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
14310 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
14311 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
14312 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
14315 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14316 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
14317 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
14318 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
14319 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
14320 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
14323 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14324 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
14325 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
14328 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
14329 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
14330 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
14331 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
14333 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14334 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
14335 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
14336 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
14339 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14340 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
14341 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
14342 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
14345 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
14346 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
14347 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
14350 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14351 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
14352 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14354 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
14355 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
14356 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
14358 o Minor features (geoip):
14359 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14362 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
14363 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
14364 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
14365 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
14366 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
14368 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
14369 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
14370 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
14371 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
14372 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
14373 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14375 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
14376 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
14377 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14379 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14380 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
14381 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
14382 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
14383 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
14384 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
14386 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14387 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
14388 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
14390 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
14391 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
14393 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
14394 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
14395 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
14396 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
14397 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
14398 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
14400 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14401 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
14402 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
14406 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
14407 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
14410 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
14411 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
14412 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
14413 everyone to test this release.
14415 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
14416 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
14417 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
14418 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
14421 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
14422 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
14423 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
14424 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
14427 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
14428 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
14429 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
14430 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
14431 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14432 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
14433 download, stop waiting for certificates.
14434 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
14435 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
14436 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
14438 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
14439 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
14440 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
14441 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14442 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
14443 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14444 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
14445 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
14446 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14447 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
14448 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
14449 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
14451 o Minor features (geoip):
14452 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14455 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
14456 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
14457 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
14458 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
14459 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
14460 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14462 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
14463 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
14464 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
14465 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14466 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
14467 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14469 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14470 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
14471 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
14472 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
14475 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14476 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
14477 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
14478 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
14479 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
14480 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14481 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
14482 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14484 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
14485 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
14486 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14488 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14489 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
14490 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
14491 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
14492 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14493 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
14494 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
14495 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14497 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
14498 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
14499 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
14502 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14503 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
14504 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14507 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
14508 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14509 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
14510 tickets 19287 and 19290.
14513 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
14514 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
14515 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
14516 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
14517 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
14520 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14521 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14522 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14523 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14524 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14525 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14526 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14527 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14528 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14530 o Minor features (geoip):
14531 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14535 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
14536 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
14537 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
14538 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
14539 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
14542 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
14543 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
14544 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
14545 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
14546 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
14547 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
14548 be a release candidate.
14550 o Major features (security fixes):
14551 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14552 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14553 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14554 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14555 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14556 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14557 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14558 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14560 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
14561 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
14562 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
14563 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
14564 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
14565 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
14566 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
14567 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
14568 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
14569 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
14570 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
14571 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
14572 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
14573 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
14576 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
14577 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
14578 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
14580 o Minor features (client, directory):
14581 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
14582 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
14583 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
14586 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
14587 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
14590 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
14591 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
14592 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
14595 o Minor features (geoip):
14596 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14599 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
14600 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
14601 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
14602 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
14603 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
14605 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
14606 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
14607 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
14608 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
14611 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
14612 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
14613 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
14614 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
14615 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
14617 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
14618 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
14619 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
14622 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
14623 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
14624 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
14625 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
14627 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14628 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
14629 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
14630 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
14632 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
14633 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
14634 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
14635 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
14638 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14639 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
14640 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
14644 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
14645 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
14647 o Required libraries:
14648 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
14649 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
14650 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
14653 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
14654 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
14655 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
14656 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
14657 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
14658 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
14659 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
14660 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
14662 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
14663 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
14664 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
14665 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
14666 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
14667 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14669 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
14670 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
14671 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
14672 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
14673 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
14676 o Major features (circuit building, security):
14677 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
14678 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
14679 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
14681 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
14682 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
14684 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
14685 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
14686 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
14687 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
14688 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
14689 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
14690 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
14691 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
14692 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
14693 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
14694 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
14696 o Major features (resource management):
14697 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
14698 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
14699 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
14700 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
14701 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
14702 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
14704 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
14705 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
14706 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
14707 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
14709 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
14710 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
14711 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
14712 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14714 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14715 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
14716 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
14717 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
14718 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
14719 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
14721 o Minor features (security, TLS):
14722 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
14723 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
14724 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
14725 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
14727 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
14728 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
14729 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
14730 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
14732 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
14733 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14736 o Minor feature (port flags):
14737 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
14738 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
14739 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
14740 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
14741 18693; patch by "teor".
14743 o Minor features (directory authority):
14744 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
14745 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
14746 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
14748 o Minor features (testing):
14749 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
14750 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
14751 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
14752 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
14754 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
14755 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
14756 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
14757 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
14758 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
14759 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
14760 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
14761 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
14762 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
14764 o Minor features (Tor2web):
14765 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
14766 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
14767 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
14769 o Minor features (unit tests):
14770 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
14771 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
14772 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
14773 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
14774 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
14775 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
14776 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
14777 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
14779 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
14780 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
14781 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
14782 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
14783 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
14784 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
14785 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
14786 assertion as a test failure.
14788 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
14789 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
14790 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
14791 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
14792 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
14793 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
14795 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
14796 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
14797 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
14798 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
14799 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
14800 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
14801 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
14802 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
14803 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
14804 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
14805 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14806 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14807 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
14808 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
14809 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
14810 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14812 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14813 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
14814 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
14815 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
14816 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14817 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
14818 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
14821 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14822 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
14823 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
14824 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
14825 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
14826 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
14827 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
14830 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14831 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
14832 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
14833 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
14835 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
14836 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
14837 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
14839 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14840 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
14841 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
14842 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
14843 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
14844 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14846 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14847 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
14848 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
14849 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
14851 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
14852 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
14853 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
14855 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
14856 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
14857 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
14858 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
14859 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
14860 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
14862 o Minor bugfixes (options):
14863 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
14864 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
14866 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
14867 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
14868 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14871 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
14872 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
14873 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
14874 19678. Patch by teor.
14876 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14877 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
14878 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
14879 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
14880 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
14881 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
14883 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
14884 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
14888 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
14889 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
14890 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
14891 who select public relays as their bridges.
14893 o Major bugfixes (crash):
14894 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
14895 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
14896 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
14897 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
14898 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14900 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
14901 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
14902 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
14903 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
14904 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
14907 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
14908 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
14909 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
14910 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
14912 o Minor features (geoip):
14913 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14917 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
14918 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
14919 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
14920 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
14921 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
14922 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
14924 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
14925 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14926 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14928 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
14929 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
14930 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
14931 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
14932 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
14933 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14935 o Major features (user interface):
14936 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
14937 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
14938 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
14940 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
14941 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
14942 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
14943 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
14945 o Minor features (config):
14946 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
14947 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
14949 o Minor features (geoip):
14950 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14953 o Minor features (user interface):
14954 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
14955 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
14958 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
14959 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
14960 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
14962 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14963 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
14964 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
14966 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
14967 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
14968 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
14969 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14971 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
14972 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
14973 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
14976 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
14977 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
14978 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
14979 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
14981 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14982 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
14983 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14985 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
14986 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
14987 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14989 o Deprecated features:
14990 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
14991 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
14992 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
14993 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
14994 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
14995 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
14996 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
14997 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
14998 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14999 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
15000 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15001 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15002 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
15003 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
15004 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
15005 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
15006 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
15007 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
15008 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
15009 and TransListenAddress.
15012 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
15013 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
15016 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
15017 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
15020 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
15021 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
15022 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
15023 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
15024 encouraged to upgrade.
15026 o Directory authority changes:
15027 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15028 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15030 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
15031 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
15032 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
15033 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
15034 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
15035 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15037 o Minor features (geoip):
15038 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15041 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15042 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
15043 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
15046 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15047 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
15048 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
15049 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
15052 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
15053 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
15054 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
15055 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
15056 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
15057 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
15058 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
15059 security, correctness, and performance.
15061 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
15063 o New system requirements:
15064 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
15065 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
15066 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
15067 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
15068 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
15069 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
15070 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
15071 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
15073 o Major features (build, hardening):
15074 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
15075 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
15076 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
15077 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
15078 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
15079 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
15080 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
15081 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
15082 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
15084 o Major features (compilation):
15085 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
15086 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
15087 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
15088 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
15090 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
15091 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
15092 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
15094 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
15095 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
15096 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
15097 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
15098 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
15099 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
15100 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
15101 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
15103 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
15104 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
15105 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
15106 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
15107 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
15108 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
15109 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
15111 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
15112 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
15113 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
15114 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
15115 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
15116 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
15117 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
15119 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
15120 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
15121 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
15122 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
15123 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
15125 o Minor features (build, hardening):
15126 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
15127 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
15128 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
15129 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
15130 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
15131 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
15132 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
15133 Closes ticket 18895.
15135 o Minor features (code safety):
15136 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
15137 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
15140 o Minor features (controller):
15141 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
15142 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
15143 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
15144 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
15145 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
15146 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
15147 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
15148 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
15150 o Minor features (directory authority):
15151 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
15152 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
15153 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
15154 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
15155 Implements ticket 18624.
15156 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
15157 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
15158 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
15161 o Minor features (hidden service):
15162 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
15163 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
15164 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
15167 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
15168 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
15169 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
15170 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
15171 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
15172 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
15173 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
15174 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
15175 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
15176 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
15177 Closes ticket 18365.
15179 o Minor features (logging):
15180 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
15181 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
15182 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
15183 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
15184 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
15185 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
15186 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
15187 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
15188 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
15189 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
15191 o Minor features (performance):
15192 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
15193 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
15194 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
15195 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
15196 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
15197 Closes ticket 18815.
15199 o Minor features (relay, usability):
15200 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
15201 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
15202 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
15203 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
15206 o Minor features (testing):
15207 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
15208 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15209 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
15210 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
15211 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
15212 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
15213 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
15214 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
15217 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
15218 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
15219 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
15220 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
15221 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15223 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15224 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
15225 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
15226 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
15227 patch from "cypherpunks".
15229 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
15230 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
15231 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15233 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15234 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
15235 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
15236 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15238 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15239 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
15240 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
15241 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15242 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
15243 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
15244 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
15245 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15247 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
15248 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
15249 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15250 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
15251 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
15252 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
15253 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
15255 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
15256 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
15257 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
15260 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
15261 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
15262 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
15264 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
15265 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
15266 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
15269 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
15270 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
15271 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
15272 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
15275 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15276 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
15277 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
15279 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
15280 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
15281 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
15284 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15285 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
15286 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
15287 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
15288 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
15289 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
15290 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15291 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
15292 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
15295 o Minor bugfixes (time):
15296 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
15297 bugfix on all released tor versions.
15298 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
15299 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
15300 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
15301 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
15303 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
15304 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
15305 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
15306 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
15307 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
15309 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
15310 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15312 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15313 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
15315 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
15316 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
15317 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
15318 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
15321 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
15322 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
15324 o Removed features:
15325 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
15326 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
15327 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
15328 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
15329 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
15330 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
15331 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
15334 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
15335 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
15336 command-line options to enable them.
15337 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
15338 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
15341 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
15343 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
15345 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
15346 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
15347 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
15348 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
15349 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
15350 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
15352 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
15354 o Minor features (geoip):
15355 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15358 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15359 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
15360 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15362 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15363 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
15364 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
15365 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
15367 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15368 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
15369 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
15370 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
15371 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
15372 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
15373 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
15374 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15377 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
15378 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
15379 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
15380 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
15381 against previous versions.
15383 o Directory authority changes:
15384 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15386 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
15387 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
15388 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
15389 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
15391 o Minor features (build):
15392 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
15393 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
15394 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
15395 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
15396 Patch from intrigeri.
15398 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
15399 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
15400 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
15403 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
15404 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
15405 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
15406 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
15407 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
15410 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15411 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
15412 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
15413 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
15414 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
15415 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
15416 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
15418 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
15419 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
15420 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
15421 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
15423 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
15424 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
15425 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
15426 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
15427 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
15428 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15430 o Fallback directory list:
15431 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
15432 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
15433 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
15434 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
15435 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
15436 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
15437 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
15438 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
15439 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
15442 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
15443 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
15444 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
15445 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
15448 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
15449 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
15450 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
15451 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15453 o Minor features (build):
15454 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
15455 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
15457 o Minor features (geoip):
15458 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15461 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15462 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
15463 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15465 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
15466 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
15467 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
15468 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
15472 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
15473 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
15474 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
15475 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
15476 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
15479 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
15480 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15481 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15482 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15483 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15485 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
15486 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
15487 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
15488 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
15489 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
15490 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
15492 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
15493 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
15494 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
15495 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15497 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
15498 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
15499 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
15500 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
15501 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
15502 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
15503 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
15505 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
15506 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
15508 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
15509 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
15510 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
15512 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
15513 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
15514 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
15515 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
15516 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
15517 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15520 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
15521 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
15522 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
15525 o Major bugfixes (key management):
15526 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15527 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15528 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15529 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15530 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15531 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15534 o Major bugfixes (testing):
15535 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
15536 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15537 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
15538 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15540 o Minor features (clients):
15541 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
15542 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
15543 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
15545 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
15546 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
15547 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
15548 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
15549 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
15550 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
15551 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
15552 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
15553 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
15554 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
15556 o Minor features (geoip):
15557 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15560 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
15561 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
15562 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
15565 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
15566 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
15567 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
15569 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15570 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
15571 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
15573 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
15574 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
15576 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
15577 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
15580 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15581 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
15582 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
15583 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
15584 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15585 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
15586 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
15587 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15589 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
15590 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
15591 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
15592 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
15593 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15595 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
15596 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
15597 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
15598 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15599 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
15600 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
15603 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
15604 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
15605 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
15606 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
15607 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
15608 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15610 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15611 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
15612 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
15613 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15614 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
15615 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15616 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
15617 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15619 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
15620 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
15621 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
15622 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
15624 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
15625 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
15626 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
15627 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
15628 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
15629 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
15632 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
15633 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
15634 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
15636 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
15637 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
15638 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15640 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
15641 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
15642 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
15644 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15645 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
15646 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
15647 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
15648 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
15649 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
15650 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15652 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
15653 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
15654 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
15655 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
15658 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
15659 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
15660 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
15661 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
15664 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
15665 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
15666 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
15667 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
15668 directory support should also be much improved.
15670 o New system requirements:
15671 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
15672 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
15673 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
15674 longer runs with, these versions.
15675 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
15676 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
15677 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
15679 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
15680 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
15681 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
15682 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
15683 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
15685 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
15686 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15687 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15688 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15689 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15691 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
15692 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
15693 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
15694 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
15695 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
15697 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
15698 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
15699 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
15700 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15702 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
15703 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
15704 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15705 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
15706 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15708 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
15709 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
15710 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
15711 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
15712 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
15713 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15716 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
15717 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15718 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15720 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
15721 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
15722 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
15723 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
15726 o Major bugfixes (voting):
15727 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
15728 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
15729 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
15730 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
15732 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
15733 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
15734 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
15735 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15736 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
15737 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
15738 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
15739 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
15740 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
15741 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15743 o Minor features (security, win32):
15744 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
15745 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
15748 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
15749 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15750 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15751 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15753 o Minor features (build):
15754 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
15755 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
15756 Steven Chamberlain.
15758 o Minor features (code hardening):
15759 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
15760 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
15761 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
15764 o Minor features (crypto):
15765 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
15766 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
15769 o Minor features (geoip):
15770 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15773 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
15774 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
15775 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
15776 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
15777 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
15779 o Minor features (IPv6):
15780 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
15781 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
15782 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
15783 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
15784 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
15785 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
15786 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
15788 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15789 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
15790 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
15791 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
15792 while fixing 18548.
15794 o Minor features (robustness):
15795 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
15796 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
15797 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
15799 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
15800 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
15801 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
15802 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
15803 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
15804 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
15805 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
15808 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
15809 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
15810 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
15811 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
15812 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
15814 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
15815 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
15816 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
15817 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
15819 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15820 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
15821 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
15823 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
15824 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
15825 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15826 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
15827 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
15828 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
15830 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
15831 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
15832 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
15833 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
15834 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15836 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15837 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
15838 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
15839 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
15842 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15843 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
15844 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15846 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
15847 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
15848 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
15849 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
15851 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15852 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
15853 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
15854 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
15855 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
15856 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15858 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
15859 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
15860 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
15861 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
15863 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
15864 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
15865 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
15866 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
15867 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
15869 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
15870 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
15871 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
15872 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
15873 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
15874 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
15875 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
15876 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
15877 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
15880 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
15881 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
15882 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
15883 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15885 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
15886 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
15887 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
15889 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15890 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
15891 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
15892 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15893 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
15894 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
15895 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15896 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
15897 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15899 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15900 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
15901 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
15902 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
15903 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
15904 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
15905 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
15906 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
15907 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
15908 Christian, patch by teor.
15910 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
15911 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
15912 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
15913 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
15915 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
15916 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
15917 patch by "cypherpunks".
15918 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
15920 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
15921 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15923 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
15924 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
15925 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
15926 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
15928 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
15929 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
15930 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
15933 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15934 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
15935 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
15936 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
15937 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
15938 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15940 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
15941 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
15942 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
15943 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
15945 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
15946 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
15947 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
15948 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
15950 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15951 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
15952 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
15953 17744. Patch from zerosion.
15954 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
15955 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
15956 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
15957 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
15958 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
15961 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
15962 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
15963 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
15965 o Removed features:
15966 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
15967 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
15968 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
15971 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
15973 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
15974 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
15977 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
15978 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
15979 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
15980 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
15981 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
15983 o Major features (security, Linux):
15984 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
15985 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
15986 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
15987 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
15988 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
15990 o Major features (directory system):
15991 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
15992 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
15993 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
15994 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
15995 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
15996 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
15997 "mikeperry" and "teor".
15998 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
15999 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
16000 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
16001 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
16002 15775. Patch by "teor".
16003 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
16004 "gsathya", and "karsten".
16005 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
16006 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
16007 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
16008 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
16009 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
16012 o Major key updates:
16013 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16014 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16017 o Minor features (security, clock):
16018 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
16019 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
16020 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
16021 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
16023 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
16024 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
16025 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
16026 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
16027 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
16028 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16030 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
16031 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
16032 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
16033 Implements ticket 17026.
16034 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
16035 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
16036 Implements feature 17986.
16037 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
16038 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
16039 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
16040 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16041 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16042 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16045 o Minor features (security, RNG):
16046 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
16047 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
16048 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
16049 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
16050 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
16051 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
16052 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
16053 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
16054 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
16055 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
16058 o Minor features (accounting):
16059 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
16060 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
16061 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
16062 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
16064 o Minor features (build):
16065 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
16066 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
16067 patch from "cypherpunks."
16068 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
16069 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
16070 17549, 17921, and 17984.
16072 o Minor features (controller):
16073 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
16074 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
16075 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
16076 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
16077 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
16078 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
16079 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
16080 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
16083 o Minor features (crypto):
16084 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
16086 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
16087 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
16088 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
16089 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
16090 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
16091 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
16092 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
16093 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16095 o Minor features (directory downloads):
16096 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
16097 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
16098 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
16099 17864; patch by "teor".
16100 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
16101 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
16102 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
16104 o Minor features (geoip):
16105 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16108 o Minor features (IPv6):
16109 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
16110 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
16111 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
16112 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
16113 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
16114 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
16115 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
16116 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
16117 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
16118 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
16119 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
16121 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
16122 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16123 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
16124 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
16126 o Minor features (logging):
16127 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
16128 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
16129 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
16130 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
16133 o Minor features (portability):
16134 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
16135 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
16137 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
16138 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
16139 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
16140 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
16141 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
16143 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
16144 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
16145 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
16146 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
16147 Resolves ticket 17951.
16149 o Minor features (replay cache):
16150 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
16151 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
16153 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
16154 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
16155 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
16156 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
16157 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16158 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
16159 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
16160 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
16161 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
16162 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
16163 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16164 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
16165 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
16166 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16168 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
16169 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
16170 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
16171 from "unixninja92".
16173 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16174 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
16175 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
16176 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16177 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
16178 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
16180 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
16183 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16184 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
16185 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
16186 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16187 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
16188 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
16189 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16190 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
16192 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
16193 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
16194 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
16195 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
16196 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
16197 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
16198 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16199 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
16201 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
16202 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16204 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
16205 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
16206 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16208 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16209 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
16210 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
16211 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16213 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
16214 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
16215 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16217 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16218 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
16219 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16221 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16222 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
16223 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
16224 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
16225 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
16227 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
16228 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16230 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16231 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
16232 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
16235 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
16236 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
16237 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
16238 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
16239 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
16240 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
16242 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
16243 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
16244 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
16245 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
16246 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
16248 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
16249 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
16250 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
16253 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
16254 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
16255 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
16256 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16257 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
16258 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
16259 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
16260 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
16263 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16264 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
16265 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
16266 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
16267 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
16268 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16269 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
16270 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
16271 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
16272 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
16274 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
16275 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16277 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16278 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
16279 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
16280 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
16281 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
16282 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
16283 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
16284 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
16285 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
16286 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
16288 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
16289 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
16290 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
16291 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
16293 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
16294 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
16295 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
16296 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
16297 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
16299 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
16300 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
16303 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
16304 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
16305 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
16306 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
16307 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
16308 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
16309 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
16312 o Removed features:
16313 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
16314 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
16315 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
16316 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
16317 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
16320 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
16321 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
16322 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
16323 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
16324 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
16325 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
16326 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
16327 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
16328 portion of ticket 16831.
16329 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
16330 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
16331 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
16333 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
16334 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
16337 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
16338 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
16339 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
16341 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
16342 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
16343 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
16344 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
16345 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
16346 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
16349 o Minor features (geoip):
16350 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16353 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16354 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
16355 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
16356 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
16357 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
16358 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
16360 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16361 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
16362 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
16363 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
16364 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
16365 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
16366 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
16367 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16368 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
16369 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16372 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
16373 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
16374 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
16375 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
16376 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
16377 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
16378 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
16379 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
16380 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
16381 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
16382 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
16383 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
16384 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
16385 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
16386 that would make him proud.
16388 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
16390 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
16391 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
16392 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
16393 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
16394 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
16395 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
16396 of Tor invoke which others.
16398 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
16401 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
16402 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
16403 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
16404 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
16405 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
16406 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
16407 release will the the official stable release.
16409 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
16410 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
16411 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
16412 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
16413 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16416 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
16417 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
16418 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16420 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
16421 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
16422 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
16423 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
16424 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16425 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
16426 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
16428 o Minor features (geoIP):
16429 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16432 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16433 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
16434 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
16435 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
16436 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16437 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
16438 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
16440 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16441 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
16442 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
16445 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
16446 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
16447 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
16448 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
16450 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16451 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
16452 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
16453 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
16454 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
16455 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
16456 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
16457 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
16458 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
16459 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
16460 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
16464 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
16465 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
16469 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
16470 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
16471 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
16472 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
16473 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
16475 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
16476 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
16477 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
16478 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
16480 o Major features (security, hidden services):
16481 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
16482 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
16483 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
16484 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
16485 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
16486 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
16487 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
16489 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
16490 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
16491 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
16492 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
16493 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
16494 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
16497 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
16498 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
16499 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
16500 available. Implements ticket 16535.
16501 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
16502 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
16505 o Major features (performance testing):
16506 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
16507 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
16508 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
16510 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
16511 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
16512 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
16513 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
16515 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
16516 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
16517 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
16518 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
16519 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
16520 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
16522 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
16523 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
16525 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
16526 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
16527 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
16528 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
16529 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
16531 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
16532 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
16533 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
16534 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
16535 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
16536 own. Implements feature 15482.
16537 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
16538 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
16540 o Minor features (compilation):
16541 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
16542 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
16543 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
16544 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
16545 which started requiring ECC.
16547 o Minor features (geoip):
16548 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16551 o Minor features (hidden services):
16552 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
16553 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
16554 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
16555 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
16556 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
16557 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
16558 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
16559 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
16561 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
16562 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
16563 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
16566 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
16567 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
16568 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
16569 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
16571 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
16572 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
16573 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
16574 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
16575 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
16577 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
16578 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
16579 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
16580 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
16581 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16582 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
16583 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
16584 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
16585 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
16586 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
16587 Related to ticket 16069.
16588 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
16589 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
16590 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
16591 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
16592 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
16593 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16595 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
16596 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
16597 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16598 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
16599 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
16601 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
16602 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
16603 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16605 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
16606 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
16607 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
16608 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16610 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16611 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
16612 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
16613 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
16614 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16616 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
16617 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
16618 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
16619 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
16620 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16621 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
16622 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
16623 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
16624 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
16625 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
16626 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
16629 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
16630 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
16631 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16633 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16634 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
16635 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16636 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
16637 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16639 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
16640 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
16641 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
16642 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
16644 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16645 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
16646 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
16648 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
16649 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16650 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
16651 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
16652 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
16653 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16654 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
16655 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16657 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16658 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
16659 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
16660 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
16661 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
16663 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
16664 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
16667 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16668 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
16669 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
16670 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
16671 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
16672 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
16673 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
16674 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
16675 function. Closes ticket 16763.
16676 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
16677 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
16678 suite of other microdesc functions.
16679 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
16680 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
16681 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
16682 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
16683 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
16684 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
16685 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
16686 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
16687 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
16688 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
16690 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
16691 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
16693 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
16696 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
16697 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
16698 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
16699 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
16703 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
16704 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
16705 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
16706 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
16707 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
16708 Closes ticket 13338.
16709 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
16710 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
16711 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
16712 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
16713 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
16714 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
16717 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
16718 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
16719 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
16720 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
16721 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
16722 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
16723 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
16725 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
16726 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
16727 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
16728 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
16729 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
16730 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
16731 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
16732 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
16733 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
16734 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
16735 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
16736 network before we begin.
16737 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
16738 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
16739 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
16740 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
16741 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
16742 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
16743 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
16744 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
16747 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
16748 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
16749 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
16750 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
16751 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
16752 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
16754 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
16755 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
16756 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
16758 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
16759 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
16760 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
16761 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
16762 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
16763 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
16764 Implements part of ticket 12498.
16765 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
16766 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16767 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
16768 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
16769 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16770 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
16771 part of ticket 12498.
16772 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
16773 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
16774 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
16775 key). Closes ticket 13642.
16777 o Major features (Hidden services):
16778 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
16779 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
16780 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
16781 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
16782 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
16784 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
16785 introduction points, which used to change the number of
16786 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
16787 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
16789 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
16790 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
16791 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
16792 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
16793 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
16794 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
16796 o Major features (performance):
16797 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
16798 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
16799 Implements ticket 16467.
16800 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
16801 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
16802 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
16803 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
16805 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
16806 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
16807 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
16808 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
16809 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
16810 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
16812 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16813 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
16814 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
16815 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
16816 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
16817 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
16818 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
16819 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
16822 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16823 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
16824 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
16825 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
16826 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
16827 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
16828 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
16831 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
16832 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
16833 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
16834 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
16835 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
16836 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
16838 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16839 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
16840 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
16841 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
16842 by "cypherpunks_backup".
16843 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
16844 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
16845 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
16848 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
16849 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
16850 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
16851 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
16852 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
16853 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
16854 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
16856 o Minor features (client):
16857 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
16858 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
16859 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
16861 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
16862 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
16863 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
16864 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16865 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
16866 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
16867 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
16870 o Minor features (control protocol):
16871 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
16872 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
16874 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16875 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
16876 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
16877 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
16878 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
16879 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
16881 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
16882 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16883 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16885 o Minor features (hidden services):
16886 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
16887 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
16888 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
16889 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
16892 o Minor features (portability):
16893 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
16894 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
16895 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
16897 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
16898 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
16899 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
16900 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
16902 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16903 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
16904 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
16905 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16907 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
16908 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
16909 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
16910 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
16911 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
16912 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
16914 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16915 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
16916 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
16917 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16918 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
16919 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
16920 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16922 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16923 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
16924 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16926 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
16927 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
16928 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
16929 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
16931 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
16932 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
16933 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
16934 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
16936 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
16937 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
16940 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16941 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
16942 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
16943 from "cypherpunks".
16945 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
16946 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
16947 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16948 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
16949 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
16950 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16952 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
16953 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
16954 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16956 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
16957 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
16958 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
16960 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
16961 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
16962 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16963 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
16964 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16965 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
16966 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
16967 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
16968 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16970 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16971 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
16972 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
16973 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
16974 haven't supported that in ages.
16975 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
16976 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
16977 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
16978 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
16981 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
16982 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
16983 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
16984 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
16985 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
16986 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
16988 o Removed features:
16989 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
16990 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
16991 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
16992 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
16993 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
16994 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
16995 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
16996 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
16997 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
16998 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
16999 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
17000 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
17001 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
17002 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
17003 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
17004 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
17005 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
17008 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
17009 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
17010 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
17011 Closes ticket 15817.
17012 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
17013 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
17015 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
17016 default as a part of "make check".
17017 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
17018 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
17019 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
17020 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
17024 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
17025 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
17026 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
17027 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
17028 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
17029 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
17031 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
17032 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17033 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17034 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17035 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17036 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17037 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17038 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17041 o Major bugfixes (stability):
17042 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17043 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17044 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17045 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17046 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17047 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17048 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17051 o Minor features (geoip):
17052 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17053 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17055 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
17056 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17057 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17058 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17059 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17060 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17062 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17063 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17064 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17065 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17068 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
17069 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
17070 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
17071 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
17072 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
17074 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
17075 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17076 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
17077 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
17078 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17081 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
17082 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17083 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17084 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17085 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
17086 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
17087 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17089 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17090 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17091 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17092 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17094 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17095 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
17096 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
17097 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
17098 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17099 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17102 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
17103 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17104 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17107 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
17108 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
17109 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
17110 authorities should upgrade.
17112 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17113 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17114 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
17115 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
17118 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17119 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17120 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17123 o Minor features (geoip):
17124 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17125 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17129 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
17130 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
17131 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
17132 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
17133 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
17134 the hidden services subsystem.
17136 o New system requirements:
17137 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
17138 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
17141 o Major features (controller):
17142 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
17143 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
17145 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
17146 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
17147 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
17148 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
17149 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
17150 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
17151 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
17153 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17154 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17155 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
17156 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
17159 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
17160 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
17161 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
17162 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
17163 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
17165 o Minor features (command-line interface):
17166 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
17167 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17168 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
17169 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
17171 o Minor features (controller):
17172 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
17173 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
17174 present. Implements ticket 14840.
17175 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
17176 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
17177 Closes ticket 14845.
17178 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
17179 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
17180 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
17182 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
17183 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
17184 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
17185 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
17187 o Minor features (geoip):
17188 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17189 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17192 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
17193 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
17194 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
17195 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
17196 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
17197 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
17198 Closes ticket 15745.
17200 o Minor features (logging):
17201 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
17202 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
17205 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
17206 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
17207 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
17208 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
17210 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
17211 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
17212 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
17213 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
17214 Resolves ticket 15435.
17216 o Minor features (testing):
17217 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
17218 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
17219 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
17220 files. Closes ticket 15180.
17221 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
17222 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
17223 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
17224 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
17225 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
17226 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
17227 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
17228 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
17229 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
17230 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
17231 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
17232 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
17234 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17235 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
17236 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
17239 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
17240 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
17241 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
17243 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
17244 stderr, not stdout.
17246 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
17247 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
17248 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
17249 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
17250 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
17251 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
17252 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
17253 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17255 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17256 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
17257 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
17259 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
17260 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
17261 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
17264 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17265 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17266 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17268 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
17269 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17271 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
17272 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
17273 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
17274 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
17277 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
17278 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
17279 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
17280 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
17281 recent enough Clang.
17283 o Minor bugfixes (network):
17284 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
17285 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
17286 unsuitable for public communications.
17288 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17289 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
17290 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
17291 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
17292 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
17293 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
17295 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
17296 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
17297 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
17298 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
17299 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
17300 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
17301 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
17302 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
17304 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17305 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
17306 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
17308 - Set the severity correctly when testing
17309 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
17310 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
17311 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
17312 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
17314 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17315 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
17316 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
17318 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
17319 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
17320 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
17321 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
17322 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
17325 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
17326 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
17328 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
17329 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17330 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
17331 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
17332 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
17335 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
17336 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
17337 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
17338 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
17339 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
17340 Closes ticket 14922.
17342 o Removed features:
17343 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
17344 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
17345 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
17346 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
17347 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
17348 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
17349 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
17350 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
17351 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
17352 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
17353 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
17356 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
17357 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
17358 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
17359 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
17360 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
17362 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
17363 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
17365 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
17366 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
17367 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
17368 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
17369 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
17370 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
17371 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
17373 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
17374 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
17375 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
17376 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
17377 Resolves ticket 15515.
17380 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
17381 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
17382 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
17383 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
17384 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
17386 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
17387 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
17389 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
17390 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
17391 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
17392 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
17393 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
17394 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
17395 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
17397 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
17398 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
17399 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
17400 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
17401 Resolves ticket 15515.
17404 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
17405 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
17406 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
17407 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
17408 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
17410 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
17411 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
17413 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
17414 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
17415 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
17416 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
17417 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
17418 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
17419 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
17421 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
17422 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
17423 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
17424 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
17425 Resolves ticket 15515.
17426 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
17427 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
17428 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
17432 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
17433 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
17435 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
17436 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
17437 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
17438 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
17439 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
17440 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
17441 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
17442 bugs should be addressed.
17444 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17445 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
17446 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
17447 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
17449 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
17450 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
17451 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
17453 o Major bugfixes (client):
17454 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
17455 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
17458 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17459 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
17460 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
17461 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
17462 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
17463 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17465 o Major bugfixes (portability):
17466 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
17467 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
17470 o Minor features (heartbeat):
17471 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
17472 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
17473 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
17474 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
17476 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17477 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
17478 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
17481 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
17482 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
17484 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
17485 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
17486 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
17488 o Directory authority changes:
17489 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17490 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17491 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17492 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17493 closes ticket 14487.
17495 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
17496 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
17497 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
17500 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
17501 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17502 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
17503 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17504 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
17505 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17506 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17507 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17509 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
17510 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17511 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17512 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17514 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17515 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
17516 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
17517 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
17519 o Minor features (controller):
17520 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
17521 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
17522 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
17524 o Minor features (geoip):
17525 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17526 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17529 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
17530 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
17531 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
17532 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17533 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
17534 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17536 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17537 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
17538 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
17539 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
17541 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17542 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
17543 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
17544 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
17545 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
17546 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
17547 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
17548 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17550 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17551 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
17552 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17554 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
17555 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
17556 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
17557 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
17558 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
17562 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
17563 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
17564 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
17567 o Directory authority changes:
17568 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17569 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17570 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17571 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17572 closes ticket 14487.
17574 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
17575 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17576 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17577 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17579 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
17580 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17581 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
17582 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17583 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
17584 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17585 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17586 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17588 o Minor features (geoip):
17589 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17590 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17593 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
17594 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
17595 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
17596 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
17597 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
17599 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
17600 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
17601 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
17604 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
17605 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17606 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
17607 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17608 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17609 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17610 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17611 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17613 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
17614 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
17615 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
17618 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17619 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
17620 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
17622 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
17623 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17624 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
17625 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
17626 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
17628 o Minor features (controller):
17629 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
17630 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
17631 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
17633 o Minor features (geoip):
17634 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17635 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17638 o Minor features (logs):
17639 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
17642 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
17643 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
17644 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
17645 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17646 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
17647 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
17648 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
17649 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
17650 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
17652 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17653 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
17655 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
17658 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17659 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
17660 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
17662 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
17663 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
17664 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
17665 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17666 from "cypherpunks".
17667 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
17668 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
17671 o Directory authority IP change:
17672 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17673 closes ticket 14487.
17676 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
17677 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
17678 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
17682 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
17683 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
17684 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
17685 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
17686 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
17687 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
17689 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
17690 the next version will be a release candidate.
17692 o Deprecated versions:
17693 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
17694 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
17696 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
17697 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
17698 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
17699 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
17700 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
17701 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
17703 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
17704 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
17705 Implements ticket 11485.
17707 o Major features (changed defaults):
17708 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
17709 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
17710 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
17711 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
17712 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
17713 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
17715 o Major features (directory system):
17716 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
17717 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
17718 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
17719 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
17720 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
17721 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
17722 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
17723 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
17724 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
17725 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
17726 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
17727 227. Closes ticket 10395.
17729 o Major features (guards):
17730 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
17731 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
17732 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
17733 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
17734 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
17736 o Major features (performance):
17737 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
17738 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
17739 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
17740 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
17741 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
17742 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
17743 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
17744 Implements ticket 9682.
17746 o Major features (relay):
17747 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
17748 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
17749 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
17751 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
17752 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17753 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17754 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17756 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
17757 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
17758 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
17759 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
17760 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
17761 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
17762 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
17764 o Minor features (build):
17765 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
17766 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
17767 Resolves ticket 13037.
17769 o Minor features (controller):
17770 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
17771 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
17773 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
17774 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
17775 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
17776 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
17777 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
17778 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
17780 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
17781 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
17782 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
17783 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
17784 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
17785 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
17786 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
17787 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
17788 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
17789 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
17791 o Minor features (geoip):
17792 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
17793 GeoLite2 Country database.
17795 o Minor features (guard nodes):
17796 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
17797 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
17798 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
17800 o Minor features (hidden service):
17801 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
17802 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
17803 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
17804 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
17805 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
17806 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
17807 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
17808 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
17810 o Minor features (interface):
17811 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
17812 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
17813 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
17815 o Minor features (logging):
17816 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
17817 Resolves ticket 6852.
17818 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
17819 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
17820 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
17822 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
17823 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
17825 o Minor features (stability):
17826 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
17827 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
17830 o Minor features (systemd):
17831 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
17832 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
17834 o Minor features (testing networks):
17835 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
17836 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
17837 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
17838 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
17839 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
17840 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
17842 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
17843 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
17844 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
17845 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
17846 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
17848 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
17849 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
17850 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
17851 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
17852 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
17854 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
17855 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
17856 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
17857 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17858 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
17859 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
17860 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
17861 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17863 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
17864 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
17865 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
17866 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17867 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
17868 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17869 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
17870 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
17872 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
17873 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
17874 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
17877 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
17878 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
17879 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
17880 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
17881 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
17883 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
17884 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
17885 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
17886 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
17887 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17889 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17890 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
17891 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
17892 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
17893 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
17894 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
17895 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
17896 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
17897 Addresses ticket 14188.
17898 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
17899 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
17900 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
17901 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
17902 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
17903 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
17904 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
17905 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
17906 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17908 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17909 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
17910 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
17911 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
17912 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
17913 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17914 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
17915 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17917 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17918 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
17919 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
17920 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
17921 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
17922 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
17923 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
17924 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17925 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
17926 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17927 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
17928 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
17929 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17931 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
17932 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
17933 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
17934 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
17935 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
17936 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
17937 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
17938 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
17939 state, and key files.
17940 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
17941 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
17944 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17945 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
17946 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
17947 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
17948 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17949 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
17950 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
17951 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17952 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
17953 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
17954 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17956 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17957 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
17958 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17959 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
17961 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
17962 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17964 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
17965 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
17966 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
17967 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
17968 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
17969 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17971 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
17972 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
17973 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
17974 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17975 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
17976 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
17977 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17978 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
17979 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
17980 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17982 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17983 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
17984 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
17986 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
17987 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
17989 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
17990 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
17991 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
17992 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
17993 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17995 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
17996 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
17997 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
17998 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
18001 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
18002 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
18003 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
18006 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18007 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
18008 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18010 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
18011 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
18012 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
18013 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
18014 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
18015 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
18016 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
18018 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
18019 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
18022 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
18023 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
18024 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
18026 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
18027 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
18028 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
18031 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18032 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
18033 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
18034 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
18035 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
18036 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
18037 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
18038 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
18039 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
18041 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
18042 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
18044 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
18048 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
18049 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
18050 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
18051 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18052 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
18053 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18055 o Downgraded warnings:
18056 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
18057 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
18059 o Removed features:
18060 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
18061 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
18062 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
18063 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
18064 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
18068 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
18069 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
18070 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
18071 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
18072 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
18073 (existing behavior).
18074 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
18075 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
18076 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
18077 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
18078 Closes ticket 14107.
18079 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
18080 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18081 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
18082 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
18084 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
18085 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
18086 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
18089 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
18090 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
18091 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
18092 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
18093 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
18094 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
18096 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
18097 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
18098 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
18099 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
18101 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
18102 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
18103 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
18104 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
18105 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
18106 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
18108 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
18109 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
18110 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
18111 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
18112 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
18113 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
18114 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
18117 o Major features (hidden services):
18118 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
18119 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
18120 Closes ticket 13667.
18121 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
18122 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
18123 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
18124 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
18125 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
18126 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
18127 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
18128 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
18129 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
18130 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
18131 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
18133 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
18134 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
18135 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
18136 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
18137 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
18138 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
18141 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18142 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
18143 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
18144 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
18145 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
18146 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
18148 o Directory authority changes:
18149 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18150 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18151 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18153 o Major removed features:
18154 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
18155 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
18156 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
18157 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
18159 o Minor features (client):
18160 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
18161 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
18162 Resolves ticket 13315.
18164 o Minor features (controller):
18165 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
18166 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
18169 o Minor features (geoip):
18170 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18173 o Minor features (hidden services):
18174 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
18175 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
18176 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
18177 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
18178 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
18179 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
18181 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
18182 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
18183 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
18185 o Minor features (systemd):
18186 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
18187 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18188 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
18189 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18191 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
18192 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
18193 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
18194 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
18195 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
18198 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
18199 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
18200 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
18201 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
18202 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
18204 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
18205 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
18206 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
18209 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
18210 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
18211 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
18212 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
18213 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
18215 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
18216 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
18217 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18219 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18220 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
18221 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
18222 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
18223 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
18225 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
18226 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
18229 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18230 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
18231 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
18232 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
18233 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
18234 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
18235 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
18236 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
18237 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
18238 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
18239 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
18240 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
18241 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
18242 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
18245 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18246 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
18247 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
18248 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
18249 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
18250 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
18252 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18253 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
18254 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
18255 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
18257 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
18258 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18260 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
18261 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
18262 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
18263 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
18266 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
18267 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
18268 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
18269 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
18270 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
18271 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
18273 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
18274 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
18275 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
18276 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
18277 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18278 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
18279 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
18280 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
18281 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
18282 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
18283 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
18284 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
18285 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
18286 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
18287 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
18288 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
18289 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
18290 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
18291 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
18292 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18293 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
18294 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
18295 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
18296 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
18297 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
18298 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
18299 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
18300 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18301 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
18302 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
18303 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
18304 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
18306 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
18307 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
18308 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
18309 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
18310 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18312 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18313 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
18314 with a function instead.
18315 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
18316 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
18317 Closes ticket 13172.
18318 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
18319 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
18320 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
18321 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
18322 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
18323 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
18324 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
18325 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
18326 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
18327 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
18328 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
18329 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
18333 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
18334 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
18335 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
18336 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
18337 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
18338 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
18339 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
18340 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
18341 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
18342 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
18343 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
18344 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
18347 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
18348 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
18349 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
18350 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
18351 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
18352 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
18354 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
18358 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
18359 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
18360 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
18361 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
18362 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
18363 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
18364 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
18365 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
18366 of introducing infinite download loops.
18368 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
18369 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
18370 with 0.2.5.x for now.
18372 o New compiler and system requirements:
18373 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
18374 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
18375 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
18376 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
18378 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
18379 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
18380 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
18381 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
18382 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
18383 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
18384 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
18385 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
18386 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
18388 o Removed platform support:
18389 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
18390 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
18391 Closes ticket 11446.
18393 o Major features (bridges):
18394 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
18395 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
18396 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
18399 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
18400 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
18401 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
18402 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
18405 o Major features (directory system):
18406 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
18407 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
18408 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
18409 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
18411 o Major features (sample torrc):
18412 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
18413 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
18414 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
18415 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
18416 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
18417 generally useful "sample torrc".
18419 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
18420 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
18421 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18423 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
18424 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
18425 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
18426 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
18427 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18429 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
18430 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
18431 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
18432 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
18434 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
18435 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
18436 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
18437 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
18438 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
18439 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
18442 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
18443 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
18444 document. Implements feature 10427.
18446 o Minor features (client):
18447 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
18448 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
18449 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
18450 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
18452 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18453 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
18454 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
18455 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
18456 argument more than once.
18457 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
18458 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
18459 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
18460 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
18461 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
18462 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
18464 o Minor features (logging):
18465 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
18466 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
18467 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
18468 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
18469 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
18470 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
18471 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
18472 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
18473 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
18475 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
18476 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
18477 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
18478 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
18480 o Minor features (relay):
18481 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
18482 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
18483 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
18485 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
18486 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
18487 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
18488 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
18490 o Minor features (testing networks):
18491 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
18492 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
18493 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
18494 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
18495 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
18498 o Minor features (validation):
18499 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
18500 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
18501 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
18502 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
18503 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
18504 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
18505 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
18506 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
18508 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
18509 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
18510 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
18511 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18513 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18514 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
18515 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
18516 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18518 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
18519 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
18520 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
18522 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
18523 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
18524 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
18526 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
18527 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18528 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
18529 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
18530 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18531 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
18532 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18534 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18535 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
18536 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
18537 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
18538 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
18539 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18540 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
18541 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
18542 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
18544 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
18545 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
18546 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
18547 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
18548 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
18550 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
18551 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
18552 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
18554 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18555 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
18556 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
18557 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
18558 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
18560 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18561 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
18562 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
18563 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18564 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
18565 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
18566 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18567 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
18568 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
18569 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
18570 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
18573 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
18574 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
18575 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
18576 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
18577 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18579 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18580 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
18581 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18582 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
18583 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
18586 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
18587 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
18588 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18589 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
18590 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
18591 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18593 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18594 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
18595 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
18596 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18598 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
18599 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
18600 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
18601 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18603 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
18604 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
18605 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
18606 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
18609 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
18610 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
18611 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18614 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
18615 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18616 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
18617 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
18618 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
18621 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18622 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
18623 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
18625 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
18626 Resolves ticket 12205.
18627 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
18628 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
18629 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
18630 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
18632 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
18633 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
18634 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
18636 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
18637 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
18639 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
18640 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
18641 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
18642 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
18643 or_options_t structure.
18646 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
18647 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
18648 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
18649 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
18652 o Removed features:
18653 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
18654 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
18655 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
18656 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
18657 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
18658 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
18659 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
18660 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
18661 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
18663 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
18664 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
18666 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
18667 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
18668 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
18669 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
18670 anymore, and ignore it.
18673 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
18674 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
18675 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
18676 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
18677 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
18678 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
18679 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
18680 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
18681 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
18682 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
18683 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
18684 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
18686 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
18687 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
18688 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
18690 o Distribution (systemd):
18691 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
18692 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
18693 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
18694 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
18695 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
18697 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
18698 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
18700 o Removed features (directory authorities):
18701 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
18702 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
18703 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
18704 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
18705 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
18706 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
18707 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
18708 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
18709 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
18711 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
18712 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
18713 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
18714 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
18717 o Testing (test-network.sh):
18718 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
18719 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
18721 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
18723 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
18724 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
18725 Partially implements ticket 13161.
18728 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
18729 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
18731 It adds several new security features, including improved
18732 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
18733 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
18734 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
18735 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
18736 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
18737 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
18738 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
18739 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
18740 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
18741 and features mentioned below.
18743 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
18744 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
18746 o Deprecated versions:
18747 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
18748 attention for some while.
18751 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
18752 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
18753 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
18754 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
18755 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
18756 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
18758 o Major security fixes:
18759 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
18760 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
18761 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
18763 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
18764 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
18765 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
18766 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
18769 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
18770 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
18771 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
18772 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18774 o Compilation fixes:
18775 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
18776 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
18777 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
18779 o Downgraded warnings:
18780 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
18781 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
18784 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
18785 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
18786 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
18787 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
18788 (which does affect Tor).
18790 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
18791 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
18792 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
18793 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
18795 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
18796 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
18797 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
18798 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
18801 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
18802 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
18803 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
18804 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
18805 the directory authorities.
18808 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
18809 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
18810 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
18811 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
18812 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
18813 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
18814 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
18815 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
18816 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
18817 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
18818 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
18819 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18821 o Directory authority changes:
18822 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
18825 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
18826 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
18827 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
18828 the directory authorities.
18831 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
18832 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
18833 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
18834 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
18835 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
18836 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
18837 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
18838 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
18839 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
18840 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
18841 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
18842 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18844 o Directory authority changes:
18845 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
18847 o Minor features (geoip):
18848 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18852 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
18853 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
18854 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
18855 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
18856 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
18858 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
18859 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
18860 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
18861 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
18862 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
18863 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
18864 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18865 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
18866 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
18867 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
18868 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
18869 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
18870 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
18871 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18872 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
18873 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
18875 o Major bugfixes (relay):
18876 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
18877 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18878 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18879 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
18880 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
18881 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
18882 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18884 o Minor features (bridge):
18885 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
18886 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
18888 o Minor features (geoip):
18889 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18892 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18893 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
18894 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
18895 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
18896 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
18897 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
18898 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18899 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
18900 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
18901 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
18902 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18903 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
18904 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
18905 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
18906 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
18908 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
18909 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
18910 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
18911 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
18912 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
18914 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18915 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
18916 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18917 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
18918 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
18921 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18922 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
18923 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
18924 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
18925 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
18926 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
18927 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
18928 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18929 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
18930 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
18931 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
18934 o Distribution (systemd):
18935 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
18936 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
18937 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
18938 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
18939 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
18940 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
18941 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
18942 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
18943 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
18947 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
18948 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
18950 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
18954 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
18955 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
18956 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
18957 us closer to a release candidate.
18959 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
18960 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
18961 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
18962 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
18963 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
18965 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
18966 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
18967 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
18968 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
18969 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
18970 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
18971 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
18972 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
18973 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
18977 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
18978 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
18979 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
18980 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
18981 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
18982 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
18983 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
18984 to build circuits".
18987 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
18988 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
18989 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
18990 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
18991 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
18992 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
18993 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
18994 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18996 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
18998 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
18999 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
19000 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
19001 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
19002 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
19003 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
19004 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
19005 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
19006 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
19007 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19010 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
19011 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
19012 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
19013 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
19015 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
19016 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
19017 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
19020 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
19021 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
19022 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
19023 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
19026 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
19027 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
19028 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
19029 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
19030 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
19031 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
19032 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
19033 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
19034 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
19035 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
19038 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
19039 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
19040 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
19041 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
19042 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
19043 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
19044 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
19045 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
19049 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
19050 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
19051 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
19052 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
19053 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
19054 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
19055 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
19056 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
19057 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19058 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
19059 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
19060 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
19061 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
19064 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19068 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
19069 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
19070 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
19071 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
19072 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
19073 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
19076 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
19077 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
19078 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
19079 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
19080 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
19081 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
19082 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
19083 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
19084 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
19085 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
19086 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
19087 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
19088 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19090 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
19091 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
19092 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
19093 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
19096 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
19097 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
19098 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
19100 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
19101 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
19102 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
19103 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
19104 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
19105 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
19106 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
19107 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
19108 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
19109 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
19110 router's identity is not forgeable.
19112 o Major bugfixes (relay):
19113 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
19114 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
19115 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
19116 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
19117 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
19118 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
19119 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
19120 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
19121 bugfix on every version of Tor.
19123 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
19124 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
19125 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
19126 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
19129 o Minor features (diagnostic):
19130 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
19131 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
19132 help diagnose bug 7164.
19133 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
19134 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
19135 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
19136 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
19137 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
19139 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
19140 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
19141 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
19142 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
19143 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
19144 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
19145 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
19147 o Minor features (security, memory management):
19148 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
19149 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
19150 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
19151 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
19152 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
19153 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
19155 o Minor features (security):
19156 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
19157 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
19158 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
19159 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
19161 o Minor features (build):
19162 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
19163 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
19164 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
19166 o Minor features (other):
19167 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19170 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
19171 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
19172 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
19173 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
19174 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19176 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
19177 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
19178 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
19179 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
19180 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
19181 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
19182 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
19183 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
19184 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19185 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
19186 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
19187 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
19189 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19190 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
19191 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19192 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
19193 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
19194 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
19195 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
19196 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
19197 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
19198 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
19199 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19200 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
19201 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
19202 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
19203 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
19204 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
19205 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
19206 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
19209 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
19210 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
19211 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
19212 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
19213 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
19214 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
19215 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19217 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
19218 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
19219 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19220 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
19221 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19222 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
19223 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19224 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
19225 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
19227 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
19228 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
19230 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
19231 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
19233 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
19234 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
19235 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19236 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
19237 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
19238 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19239 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
19240 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
19241 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
19243 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
19244 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
19245 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
19246 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
19247 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
19248 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19249 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
19250 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
19251 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19252 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
19253 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
19254 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19255 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
19256 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
19257 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
19258 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
19259 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
19260 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19262 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19263 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
19264 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
19265 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
19266 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
19267 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19268 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
19269 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
19270 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
19273 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19274 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
19275 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
19276 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
19277 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19279 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19280 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
19281 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
19282 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
19284 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
19285 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
19286 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
19287 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19288 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
19289 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
19290 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
19291 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
19293 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
19294 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
19295 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
19296 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
19299 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
19300 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
19301 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
19302 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
19303 versions. Found by "skruffy".
19304 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
19305 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
19306 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
19309 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
19310 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
19311 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
19312 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
19315 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
19316 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
19317 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
19318 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
19320 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
19321 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
19322 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
19324 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
19325 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
19326 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19328 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19329 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
19330 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19331 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
19332 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
19336 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
19337 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
19338 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
19339 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
19342 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
19343 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
19344 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
19345 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
19347 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
19348 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
19350 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
19351 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
19352 caches don't get confused.
19355 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
19356 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
19357 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
19358 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
19359 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
19362 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
19363 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
19364 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
19365 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
19366 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
19367 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
19371 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
19372 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
19373 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
19374 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
19375 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
19376 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
19377 of RAM, and several others.
19379 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19380 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
19381 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
19382 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
19383 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
19385 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
19386 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
19387 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
19388 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
19391 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19392 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
19393 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
19394 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
19395 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
19396 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
19397 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19398 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
19399 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
19400 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
19401 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
19402 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
19403 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
19404 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
19405 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
19406 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
19407 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
19408 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
19409 Resolves ticket 11438.
19411 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
19412 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
19413 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
19414 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
19415 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
19416 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19418 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19419 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
19420 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
19422 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19423 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
19424 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19426 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19427 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
19428 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
19429 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19431 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19432 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
19433 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
19435 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19436 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
19437 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19440 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
19441 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
19442 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
19443 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
19446 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19447 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
19448 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
19449 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
19451 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19452 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
19453 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
19454 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
19456 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19457 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
19458 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
19462 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
19463 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
19464 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
19465 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
19466 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
19467 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
19468 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
19469 the Linux sandbox code.
19471 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
19472 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
19473 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
19475 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
19476 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
19478 o Major features (security):
19479 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
19480 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
19481 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
19482 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
19483 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
19484 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
19485 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
19486 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
19488 o Major features (relay performance):
19489 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
19490 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
19491 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
19492 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
19493 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
19494 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
19495 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
19496 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
19497 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
19498 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
19500 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
19501 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
19502 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
19503 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
19504 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
19505 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
19506 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
19508 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
19509 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
19511 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
19512 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
19513 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
19514 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
19515 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
19516 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
19517 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19518 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
19519 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
19520 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
19521 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
19522 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
19523 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
19524 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
19525 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
19526 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
19527 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
19528 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
19529 Resolves ticket 11438.
19531 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
19532 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
19533 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
19534 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19536 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
19537 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
19538 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
19539 10267; patch from "yurivict".
19540 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
19541 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
19542 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
19543 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
19544 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
19545 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
19547 o Minor features (security):
19548 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
19549 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
19550 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
19551 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
19554 o Minor features (log verbosity):
19555 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
19556 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
19557 Resolves ticket 5286.
19558 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
19559 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
19560 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
19561 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
19562 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
19563 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
19564 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
19565 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
19566 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
19568 o Minor features (relay):
19569 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
19570 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
19571 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
19573 o Minor features (controller):
19574 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
19575 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
19577 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
19578 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
19579 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
19581 o Minor features (bridge client):
19582 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
19583 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
19584 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
19586 o Minor features (diagnostic):
19587 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
19588 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
19589 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
19590 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
19591 still referenced by a live node_t object.
19593 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
19594 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
19595 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
19596 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
19598 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
19599 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
19600 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
19601 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
19604 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
19605 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
19606 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19608 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
19609 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
19610 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
19611 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19612 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
19613 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
19614 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19616 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
19617 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
19618 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
19619 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19620 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
19621 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
19622 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19623 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
19624 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
19625 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
19626 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19627 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
19628 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
19631 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
19632 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
19633 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
19634 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
19635 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
19637 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
19638 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
19639 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
19642 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
19643 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
19644 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
19646 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
19647 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
19648 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19650 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19651 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
19652 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
19653 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19655 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
19656 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
19657 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19658 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
19659 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
19661 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
19662 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
19663 early. Fixes bug 10081.
19665 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
19666 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
19667 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19668 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
19669 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19670 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
19671 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
19672 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
19674 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
19675 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
19676 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
19677 should never have affected anyone in practice.
19679 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19680 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
19681 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19683 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
19684 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
19685 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
19686 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
19687 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
19688 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
19689 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
19690 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
19691 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
19692 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19693 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
19694 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
19695 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
19696 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
19698 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
19699 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
19700 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
19701 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
19702 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
19703 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
19704 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
19705 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
19709 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
19710 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
19711 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
19712 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19713 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
19714 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19715 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
19716 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
19718 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
19720 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19721 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
19722 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
19723 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
19724 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
19727 o Deprecated versions:
19728 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
19729 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
19730 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
19731 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
19734 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
19735 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
19736 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
19737 Patch from Dana Koch.
19740 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
19741 Resolves ticket 11070.
19744 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
19745 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
19746 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
19747 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
19748 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
19751 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
19752 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
19754 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
19755 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
19756 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
19757 streams attached to each circuit.
19759 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
19760 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
19761 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
19762 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
19763 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
19764 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
19765 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
19766 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
19767 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
19768 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
19769 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
19770 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
19771 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
19773 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
19774 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
19775 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
19777 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
19778 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
19779 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
19780 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
19781 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
19782 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
19783 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
19784 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
19785 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
19787 o Minor features (other):
19788 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
19789 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
19790 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
19791 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
19792 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
19793 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
19794 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
19795 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
19796 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19799 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
19800 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
19801 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
19802 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
19803 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
19804 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
19805 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
19806 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
19808 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19809 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
19810 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
19811 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
19812 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19813 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
19814 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
19815 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
19817 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
19818 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
19819 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
19820 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
19821 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
19822 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19823 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
19824 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
19825 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19826 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
19827 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
19828 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19830 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
19831 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
19832 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19833 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
19834 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
19835 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
19836 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
19837 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
19838 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19839 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
19840 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
19841 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
19842 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
19843 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
19845 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
19846 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
19848 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
19849 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
19850 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
19851 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
19852 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
19853 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
19854 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19855 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
19856 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
19857 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
19858 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
19859 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19860 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
19861 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
19863 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
19864 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
19865 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
19866 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
19869 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
19870 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
19871 the rest of bug 10841.
19874 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
19875 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
19876 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
19877 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
19878 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
19879 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
19880 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
19881 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
19882 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
19883 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
19884 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
19885 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19886 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
19887 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
19888 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19890 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19891 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
19892 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
19894 o Test infrastructure:
19895 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
19896 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
19897 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
19898 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
19901 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
19902 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
19903 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
19904 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
19906 o Major features (client security):
19907 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
19908 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
19909 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
19910 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
19911 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
19912 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
19915 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
19916 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
19917 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
19918 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19920 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19921 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
19922 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
19923 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
19924 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
19927 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
19928 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
19930 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
19931 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
19932 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
19933 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
19934 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
19935 GeoLite2 Country database.
19938 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
19939 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
19940 bugfix on every released Tor.
19941 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
19942 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
19943 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
19944 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19945 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
19946 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
19947 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
19948 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
19949 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
19950 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19951 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
19952 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
19953 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19954 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
19955 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19957 o Documentation fixes:
19958 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
19959 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19962 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
19963 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
19964 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
19965 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
19966 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
19967 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
19968 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
19969 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
19971 o Major features (client security):
19972 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
19973 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
19974 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
19975 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
19976 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
19977 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
19978 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
19979 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
19980 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
19981 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
19982 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
19983 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
19985 o Major features (bridges):
19986 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
19987 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
19988 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
19989 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
19990 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
19991 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
19992 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
19993 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
19996 o Major features (other):
19997 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
19998 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
19999 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
20000 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
20001 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
20002 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
20003 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
20004 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
20005 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
20006 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
20007 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
20008 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
20011 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
20012 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
20013 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20014 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
20015 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
20016 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
20017 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20019 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
20020 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
20021 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
20022 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
20023 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
20024 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
20025 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
20026 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
20027 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
20029 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
20030 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20031 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
20032 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
20033 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
20034 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
20036 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
20037 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
20038 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
20039 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
20040 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
20041 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
20044 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
20045 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
20046 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
20047 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
20048 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
20049 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
20050 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
20052 o Minor features (security):
20053 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
20054 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
20057 o Minor features (config options and command line):
20058 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
20059 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
20060 Implements ticket 10060.
20061 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
20062 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
20063 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
20065 o Minor features (controller):
20066 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
20067 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
20068 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
20069 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
20070 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
20073 o Minor features (build):
20074 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
20075 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
20076 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
20077 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
20078 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
20079 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
20080 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
20082 o Minor features (testing):
20083 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
20084 the unit test scripts.
20085 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
20086 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
20087 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
20088 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
20090 o Minor features (log messages):
20091 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
20092 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
20093 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
20094 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
20095 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
20096 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
20097 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
20098 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
20099 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
20100 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20102 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
20103 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
20104 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
20105 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
20106 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
20107 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
20108 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
20109 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
20110 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
20111 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20113 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
20114 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
20115 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
20116 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
20119 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20120 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
20121 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
20122 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
20123 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20125 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
20126 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
20127 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
20128 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
20129 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
20130 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
20131 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
20133 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
20134 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
20135 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
20136 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
20137 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
20138 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
20139 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20140 Reported by "mr-4".
20141 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
20142 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
20143 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
20144 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20146 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
20147 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
20148 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
20149 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
20150 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
20151 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
20152 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
20153 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
20154 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
20155 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
20156 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20158 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20159 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
20160 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
20161 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
20162 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
20163 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
20164 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
20165 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
20166 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
20167 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
20169 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
20170 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
20171 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
20172 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
20175 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20176 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
20177 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
20178 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
20179 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
20180 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
20182 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
20183 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20185 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20186 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
20187 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
20188 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20190 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
20191 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
20192 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
20193 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20194 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
20195 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
20196 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
20197 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20198 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
20199 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
20200 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
20201 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
20202 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
20203 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
20205 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
20206 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
20207 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20208 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
20209 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
20210 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
20212 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
20213 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
20214 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20215 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
20216 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
20217 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
20218 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
20219 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
20220 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
20221 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20222 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
20223 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
20225 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
20226 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
20227 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
20228 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
20229 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
20230 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20231 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
20232 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
20233 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20234 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
20235 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
20236 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
20237 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
20238 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
20239 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
20240 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
20243 o Removed code and features:
20244 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
20245 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
20246 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
20247 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
20248 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
20249 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
20251 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
20252 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
20253 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
20254 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
20255 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
20256 part of a fix for bug 10841.
20258 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20259 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
20260 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
20261 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
20262 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
20263 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
20264 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
20265 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
20266 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
20267 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
20268 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
20271 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
20272 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
20273 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
20274 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
20275 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
20277 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
20278 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
20279 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
20280 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
20281 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
20282 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
20283 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
20286 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
20287 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
20288 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
20291 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
20292 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
20293 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
20294 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
20295 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
20296 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
20297 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
20299 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
20300 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
20303 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
20304 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
20305 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
20306 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
20307 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
20308 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
20309 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
20310 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
20312 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
20313 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20314 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
20315 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
20316 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
20317 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
20320 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
20321 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20322 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
20323 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
20324 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
20327 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
20328 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
20329 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
20330 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
20331 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
20332 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
20333 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
20334 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
20336 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
20337 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
20338 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
20339 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
20340 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
20341 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
20342 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
20343 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
20344 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
20345 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
20346 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
20347 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
20348 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
20349 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
20350 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
20351 security, and privacy fixes.
20354 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
20355 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
20356 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
20357 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
20360 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
20361 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
20362 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
20363 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
20364 them to solve bug 6033.)
20367 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
20368 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
20369 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
20370 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
20371 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
20372 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20373 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
20374 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
20376 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
20377 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
20378 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
20379 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20381 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
20382 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
20383 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20384 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
20385 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
20386 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
20387 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
20388 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
20389 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
20390 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20391 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
20392 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
20394 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
20395 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
20396 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
20397 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
20398 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
20399 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20400 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
20401 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
20402 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20403 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
20404 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
20405 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
20406 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
20407 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
20408 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
20409 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
20412 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
20413 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
20414 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
20415 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
20416 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
20417 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
20418 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
20419 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
20420 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
20421 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
20422 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
20423 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
20424 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
20425 Implements part of proposal 222.
20427 o Minor features (other):
20428 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
20429 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
20430 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
20431 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
20432 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
20433 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
20434 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
20435 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
20436 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20438 o Documentation fixes:
20439 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
20440 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
20441 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
20442 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
20443 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
20444 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
20447 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
20448 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
20449 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
20450 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
20451 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
20452 release of the new branch.
20454 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
20455 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
20456 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
20458 o Major features (security):
20459 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
20460 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
20461 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
20462 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
20463 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
20464 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
20465 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
20466 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
20467 Google Summer of Code.
20468 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
20469 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
20470 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
20471 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
20472 them to solve bug 6033.)
20474 o Major features (other):
20475 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
20476 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
20477 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
20478 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
20479 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
20481 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
20482 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
20483 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
20484 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
20485 Implements ticket 8530.
20486 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
20487 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
20490 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
20491 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
20492 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
20493 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
20494 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
20495 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20496 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
20497 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
20498 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20499 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
20500 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
20501 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
20502 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20505 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
20506 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
20507 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
20508 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
20509 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
20510 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
20511 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
20512 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
20513 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
20514 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
20518 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
20519 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
20520 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
20521 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
20522 invoking the other functions it calls.
20523 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
20524 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
20525 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
20526 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
20528 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
20529 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
20530 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
20531 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
20532 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
20533 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
20534 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
20535 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
20536 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
20537 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
20538 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
20539 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
20540 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
20541 Implements part of proposal 222.
20543 o Minor features (config options):
20544 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
20545 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
20546 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
20547 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
20548 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
20549 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
20550 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
20551 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
20552 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
20553 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
20554 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
20555 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
20556 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
20557 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
20558 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
20559 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
20560 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
20563 o Minor features (build):
20564 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
20565 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
20566 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
20567 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
20568 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
20571 o Minor features (other):
20572 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
20573 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
20574 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
20575 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
20576 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
20577 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
20578 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
20579 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
20580 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
20581 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
20582 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
20583 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
20584 Closes ticket 8109.
20585 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20588 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
20589 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
20590 bugfix on every released Tor.
20591 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
20592 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
20593 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
20594 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
20595 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
20596 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
20598 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
20599 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
20600 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
20601 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20602 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
20603 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
20604 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
20605 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
20607 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
20608 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
20609 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
20610 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
20611 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
20613 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
20614 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
20616 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
20617 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
20618 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
20620 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
20621 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
20622 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
20623 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
20624 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20626 o Minor code improvements:
20627 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
20628 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
20630 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
20631 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
20632 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
20633 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
20634 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
20636 o Removed features:
20637 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
20638 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
20639 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
20640 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
20642 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20643 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
20644 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
20645 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
20646 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
20647 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
20648 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
20649 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
20650 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
20651 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
20652 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
20653 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
20654 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
20655 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
20656 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
20657 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
20660 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
20661 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
20662 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
20663 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
20664 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
20665 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
20666 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
20669 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
20670 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
20671 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
20672 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
20673 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
20674 Implements ticket 9574.
20677 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
20678 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
20679 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20680 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
20681 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
20682 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
20683 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
20684 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
20685 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20686 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
20687 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
20688 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
20692 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
20693 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
20694 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
20695 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
20697 o Minor fixes (config options):
20698 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
20699 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
20700 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
20701 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
20702 message is logged at notice, not at info.
20703 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
20704 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
20705 or we just won't work.)
20708 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
20709 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
20710 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
20711 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20714 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
20715 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
20716 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
20719 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
20720 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
20721 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20722 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
20723 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20724 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
20725 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
20727 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
20728 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20729 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
20730 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
20733 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
20734 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
20735 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20736 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
20737 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
20738 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
20739 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
20740 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
20741 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
20742 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
20743 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20744 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
20745 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
20748 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20751 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
20752 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
20753 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
20754 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
20757 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
20758 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
20759 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20762 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
20763 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
20764 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
20767 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
20768 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
20769 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
20772 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
20773 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
20774 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
20775 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
20776 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
20777 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
20779 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
20780 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
20781 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
20782 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
20783 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
20784 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
20786 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
20787 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
20788 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20791 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
20792 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
20793 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
20794 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
20795 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
20797 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
20798 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
20799 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
20800 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
20801 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
20802 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
20803 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
20805 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
20806 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
20807 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
20809 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
20810 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
20814 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
20815 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
20816 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
20818 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
20819 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
20820 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
20821 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
20822 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
20823 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
20825 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
20826 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
20827 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
20828 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
20829 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
20830 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
20831 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
20834 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
20835 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
20836 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
20837 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
20838 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
20839 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
20840 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20841 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
20842 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20843 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
20844 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
20845 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20846 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
20847 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
20849 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
20850 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
20851 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
20852 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
20855 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
20856 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
20857 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
20858 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
20859 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
20860 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
20862 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
20863 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
20867 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
20868 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
20869 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
20870 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
20871 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
20872 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
20873 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20875 o Removed documentation:
20876 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
20877 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
20879 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20880 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
20881 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
20882 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
20885 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
20886 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
20887 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
20888 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
20889 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
20890 variety of other issues.
20893 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
20894 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
20895 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
20896 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
20897 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
20898 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20899 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
20900 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
20902 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
20903 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
20904 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
20906 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
20907 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
20908 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
20909 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20910 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
20911 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
20912 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20914 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
20915 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
20916 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
20917 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
20918 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
20919 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
20920 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
20921 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20922 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
20923 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
20924 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
20925 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
20926 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20927 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
20928 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
20929 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
20930 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
20931 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
20932 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
20933 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
20934 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20936 o Major bugfixes (other):
20937 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
20938 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
20939 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
20940 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20943 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
20944 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
20945 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
20946 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
20948 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
20949 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
20951 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20953 o Minor features (build):
20954 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
20955 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
20957 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
20958 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
20960 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
20961 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
20962 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
20965 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20966 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
20967 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20968 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20969 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
20970 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
20971 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20972 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
20973 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
20974 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20975 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
20976 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
20977 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
20978 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
20981 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
20982 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
20983 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
20984 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
20985 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
20986 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
20987 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
20988 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
20989 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
20990 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
20991 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
20992 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
20993 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
20994 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20995 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20997 o Minor bugfixes (other):
20998 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
20999 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21000 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
21001 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
21002 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
21003 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
21004 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21005 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
21006 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
21007 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
21008 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
21009 Should help resolve bug 8235.
21010 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
21011 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
21012 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
21013 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
21015 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
21016 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
21017 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
21018 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
21019 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
21020 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
21021 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
21022 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
21025 o Minor bugfixes (config):
21026 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
21027 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
21029 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
21030 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
21031 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21032 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
21033 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
21034 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
21035 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21036 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
21037 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
21038 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
21039 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
21040 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
21041 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
21042 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
21043 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
21046 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
21047 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
21048 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
21049 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
21050 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
21051 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
21052 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
21053 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
21055 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
21056 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
21057 or at least make it more diagnosable.
21058 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
21059 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
21060 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
21061 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21063 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
21064 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
21065 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
21066 the relaxed timeout log message.
21067 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
21068 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
21069 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
21071 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
21072 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
21073 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21074 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
21075 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
21076 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
21077 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
21080 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
21081 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
21082 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
21083 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
21084 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21085 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
21086 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21087 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
21088 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
21089 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
21090 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
21091 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
21092 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21093 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
21094 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
21095 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
21096 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
21098 o Documentation fixes:
21099 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
21100 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
21101 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
21102 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
21103 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
21104 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
21105 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
21106 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
21109 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
21110 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
21114 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
21115 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
21116 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
21117 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
21119 o Major features (directory authorities):
21120 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
21121 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
21122 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
21123 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
21124 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
21125 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
21126 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
21127 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
21128 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
21129 Implements ticket 8151.
21131 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
21132 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
21133 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
21134 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
21135 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
21137 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21138 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
21139 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
21140 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
21141 whether authentication information is present, causing all
21142 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
21143 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
21145 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
21146 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
21147 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
21148 bugs 1913 and 1992.
21149 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
21150 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
21151 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
21152 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
21153 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
21154 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
21155 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
21156 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
21157 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
21158 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
21159 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
21160 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
21161 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
21162 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
21163 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
21164 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
21165 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
21166 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
21169 o Minor features (portability):
21170 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
21171 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21172 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
21173 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
21174 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
21175 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
21176 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
21177 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
21179 o Minor features (other):
21180 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
21181 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
21182 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
21183 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
21184 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
21185 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
21186 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
21187 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
21189 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21191 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
21192 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
21193 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
21194 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
21195 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
21196 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
21197 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
21198 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
21199 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
21200 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
21202 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
21203 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
21204 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
21205 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
21207 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21208 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
21209 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
21210 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
21211 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
21212 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
21213 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
21215 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
21216 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
21217 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
21218 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
21219 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
21221 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
21222 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
21223 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
21224 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
21226 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
21227 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
21228 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
21231 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
21232 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
21233 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
21234 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
21236 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
21237 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
21238 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
21239 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21241 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
21242 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
21243 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
21244 this is CID 718634.
21245 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
21246 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
21247 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
21248 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
21250 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
21251 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
21252 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
21253 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
21254 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
21255 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
21256 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
21258 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21259 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
21263 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
21264 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
21265 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
21266 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
21267 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
21270 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
21271 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
21272 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
21273 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
21275 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
21276 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
21277 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
21281 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
21282 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
21283 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
21284 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
21285 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
21286 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
21287 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
21288 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
21289 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
21290 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
21291 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
21292 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
21293 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
21296 o Major features (relay):
21297 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
21298 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
21299 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
21300 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
21301 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
21302 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
21303 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
21305 o Major features (portability):
21306 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
21307 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
21308 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
21309 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
21310 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21313 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
21314 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
21315 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
21316 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
21317 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
21318 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
21320 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
21321 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
21322 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
21323 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
21324 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
21325 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
21326 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
21327 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
21329 o Minor features (path selection):
21330 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
21331 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
21332 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
21333 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
21334 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
21335 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
21336 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
21337 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
21338 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
21339 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
21340 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
21341 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
21342 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
21343 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
21344 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
21345 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
21346 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
21347 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
21348 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
21350 o Minor features (log messages):
21351 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
21352 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
21353 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
21354 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
21357 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
21358 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
21359 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21360 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
21361 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
21362 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
21363 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
21364 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
21365 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
21366 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21367 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
21368 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21370 o Build improvements:
21371 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
21372 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
21373 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
21374 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
21375 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
21376 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
21377 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
21378 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
21379 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
21380 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
21381 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
21382 than to perform erroneously.
21384 o Removed features:
21385 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
21386 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
21387 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
21389 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
21390 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
21391 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
21394 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21395 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
21397 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
21398 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
21402 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
21403 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
21404 work more robustly.
21407 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
21408 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
21409 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
21413 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
21414 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
21415 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
21416 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
21419 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
21420 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
21421 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
21422 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
21423 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
21424 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
21425 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
21426 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
21427 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
21428 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
21429 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
21430 closes ticket 7199.
21432 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
21433 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
21434 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
21435 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
21436 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
21437 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
21438 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
21439 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
21440 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
21441 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
21442 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
21444 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
21445 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
21446 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
21448 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
21449 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
21450 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
21452 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
21454 o Major features (better link encryption):
21455 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
21456 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
21457 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
21458 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
21459 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
21460 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
21463 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
21464 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
21465 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
21466 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
21467 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
21468 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
21469 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
21471 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
21472 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
21473 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
21474 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
21476 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
21479 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
21480 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
21481 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21484 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
21485 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
21486 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
21487 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
21488 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
21489 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
21490 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
21491 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
21492 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21494 o Minor features (testing):
21495 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
21496 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
21497 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
21499 o Minor features (path bias detection):
21500 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
21501 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
21502 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
21503 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
21504 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
21505 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
21506 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
21507 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
21508 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
21509 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
21510 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
21511 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
21512 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
21513 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
21514 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
21515 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
21516 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
21517 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
21518 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
21519 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
21520 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
21521 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
21522 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
21523 detection capability loss.
21525 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
21526 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
21527 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
21528 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
21529 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21530 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
21531 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
21532 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
21535 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21536 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
21537 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
21538 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
21539 and the different handshakes it supports.
21540 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
21541 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
21542 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
21543 any encoding is overkill.
21546 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
21547 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
21548 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
21549 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
21550 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
21551 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
21552 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
21553 and fixes a variety of other issues.
21555 o Major features (client resilience):
21556 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
21557 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
21558 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
21559 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
21560 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
21561 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
21562 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
21563 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
21564 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
21565 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
21566 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
21567 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
21568 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
21569 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
21570 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
21572 o Major features (IPv6):
21573 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
21574 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
21575 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
21576 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
21577 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
21578 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
21579 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
21580 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
21582 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
21583 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
21585 o Major features (geoip database):
21586 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
21587 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
21588 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
21589 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
21590 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
21591 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
21592 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
21593 Country database, as modified above.
21595 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
21596 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
21597 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
21598 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
21599 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
21600 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
21601 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
21602 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
21603 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
21604 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
21605 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
21606 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
21607 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
21608 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
21609 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
21610 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
21611 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
21614 o Major bugfixes (other):
21615 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
21616 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
21617 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
21618 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
21619 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
21620 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
21621 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
21622 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
21624 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
21625 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
21628 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
21629 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
21630 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
21631 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
21632 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
21633 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
21634 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
21635 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
21637 o Minor features (IPv6):
21638 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
21639 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
21640 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
21641 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
21642 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
21643 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
21644 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
21645 connect to the wrong addresses.
21646 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
21647 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
21648 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
21649 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
21653 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
21654 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
21655 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
21656 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
21657 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
21658 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
21659 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
21661 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
21662 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
21663 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
21666 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
21667 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
21669 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21670 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
21671 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
21672 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
21673 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
21676 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
21677 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
21678 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
21679 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
21680 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
21681 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
21682 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
21683 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
21685 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
21686 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
21687 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
21688 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
21689 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
21690 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
21691 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
21692 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
21693 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
21694 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
21695 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
21698 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
21699 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
21700 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
21701 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
21702 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
21703 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
21704 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
21705 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
21706 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
21707 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
21710 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
21711 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
21715 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
21716 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
21717 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
21718 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
21721 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
21722 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
21724 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
21725 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
21726 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
21727 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
21728 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
21729 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
21730 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
21731 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
21732 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
21733 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
21736 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
21738 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
21739 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
21740 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
21741 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
21742 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
21745 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
21746 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
21747 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21748 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
21749 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
21751 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
21752 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
21753 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
21754 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
21755 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
21756 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
21757 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
21759 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
21760 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21761 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
21762 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
21763 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
21764 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21765 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
21766 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21768 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21769 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
21770 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
21771 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
21772 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
21773 present the same extensions.)
21776 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
21777 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
21778 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
21779 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
21780 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
21782 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
21783 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
21784 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
21785 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
21787 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
21788 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
21789 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
21790 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21792 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
21793 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
21794 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
21795 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
21796 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
21797 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
21798 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
21799 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
21800 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21802 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
21803 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
21804 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
21805 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
21806 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21809 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
21810 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
21811 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
21813 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21814 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
21816 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
21817 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
21821 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
21822 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
21823 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
21824 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
21827 o Major bugfixes (security):
21828 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
21829 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
21830 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
21832 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
21833 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
21834 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
21835 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21838 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
21839 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
21840 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
21841 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
21842 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
21843 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
21844 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
21845 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21848 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
21849 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
21850 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
21851 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21854 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
21855 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
21856 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
21857 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
21858 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
21859 scheduling algorithms.
21861 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
21862 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21863 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21865 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
21866 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21867 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21868 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21869 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21870 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21871 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21872 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
21873 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
21874 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
21875 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
21877 o Internal abstraction features:
21878 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
21879 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
21880 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
21881 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
21882 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
21883 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
21884 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
21885 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
21886 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
21887 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
21888 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
21889 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
21890 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
21891 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
21892 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
21893 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
21894 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
21896 o Required libraries:
21897 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
21898 strongly recommended.
21901 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
21902 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
21903 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
21904 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
21905 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
21906 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
21907 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
21908 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
21909 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
21911 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
21912 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
21913 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
21914 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
21915 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
21916 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
21917 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
21918 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21919 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
21920 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
21921 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
21922 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
21923 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
21924 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
21925 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21928 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
21929 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
21930 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
21931 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
21932 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
21933 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
21934 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
21935 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
21936 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
21937 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
21938 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
21939 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21940 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
21941 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
21942 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21943 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
21944 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
21945 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
21946 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
21948 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
21949 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
21950 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
21951 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
21952 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
21953 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
21954 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
21957 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
21958 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
21959 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
21960 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
21962 o New directory authorities:
21963 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21964 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21966 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
21967 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21968 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21969 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21970 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21971 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21972 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21973 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
21974 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
21975 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
21976 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
21979 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21980 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21981 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21983 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
21984 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
21985 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
21986 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21987 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
21988 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
21989 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21990 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
21991 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
21993 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
21994 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
21995 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
21996 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
21997 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
21998 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
21999 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
22000 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
22001 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
22002 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
22003 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
22004 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
22005 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
22006 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
22007 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
22008 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
22009 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
22010 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
22012 o Documentation fixes:
22013 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
22016 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
22017 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
22018 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
22019 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
22022 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
22023 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
22024 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22027 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
22028 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
22029 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
22030 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
22031 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
22032 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
22033 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
22034 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
22036 o Security features:
22037 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
22038 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
22039 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
22040 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
22041 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
22042 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
22043 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
22044 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
22045 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
22049 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
22050 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
22051 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
22054 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
22055 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
22056 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
22057 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
22058 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22059 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
22060 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
22061 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
22062 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
22063 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
22064 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
22065 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
22066 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
22067 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
22069 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
22070 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
22071 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
22072 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
22073 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
22075 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
22076 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
22077 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
22078 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22079 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
22080 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
22081 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22082 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
22083 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
22084 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
22085 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
22086 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
22087 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
22088 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22089 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
22090 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
22091 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
22092 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
22093 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
22094 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
22096 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22097 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
22098 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
22099 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
22100 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
22101 testable, and a little less fragile too.
22102 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
22103 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
22105 o Documentation fixes:
22106 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
22107 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
22111 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
22112 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
22116 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
22117 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
22118 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22121 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
22122 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
22126 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
22127 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
22131 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
22132 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
22133 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22134 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
22135 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
22136 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
22137 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
22141 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
22142 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
22143 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
22144 log messages less noisy.
22147 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
22148 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
22152 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
22153 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
22154 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
22155 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
22156 last time we raised it).
22159 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
22160 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
22162 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
22163 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
22164 part of ticket 6736.
22165 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
22166 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
22167 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
22171 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
22172 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
22173 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
22174 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
22175 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
22177 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
22178 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22179 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
22180 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
22181 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
22182 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
22183 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
22184 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
22185 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
22186 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
22187 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
22188 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
22190 o Removed features:
22191 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
22192 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
22193 bunch of compatibility code.
22195 o Code refactoring:
22196 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
22197 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
22198 the ORPort and the DirPort.
22201 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
22202 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
22203 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
22204 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
22206 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
22207 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
22208 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
22210 o Major features (bridges):
22211 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
22212 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
22213 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
22216 o Major features (IPv6):
22217 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
22218 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
22219 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
22220 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
22221 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
22222 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
22223 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
22224 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
22225 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
22227 o Major features (build):
22228 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
22229 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
22230 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
22231 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
22232 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
22233 fixes by Jim Meyering.
22234 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
22235 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
22236 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
22238 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
22239 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
22240 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
22241 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
22242 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
22243 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
22244 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
22245 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
22246 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
22247 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
22248 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
22250 o Minor features (streamlining);
22251 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
22252 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
22254 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
22255 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
22256 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
22257 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
22258 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
22259 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22261 o Minor features (controller):
22262 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
22264 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
22265 Implements ticket 4971.
22267 o Minor features (IPv6):
22268 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
22269 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
22270 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
22271 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
22272 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
22274 o Minor features (log messages):
22275 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
22276 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
22277 Resolves ticket 6758.
22278 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
22279 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
22280 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
22281 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22282 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
22283 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
22284 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
22286 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
22287 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
22288 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
22289 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
22290 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
22293 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22294 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
22295 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
22296 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
22297 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
22299 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
22300 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
22301 Implements ticket 5529.
22302 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
22303 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
22304 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
22305 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
22306 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
22307 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
22308 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
22309 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
22310 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
22311 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
22313 o New requirements:
22314 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
22315 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
22316 from a source distribution.)
22319 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
22320 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
22321 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
22322 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
22323 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
22324 and cleans up other smaller issues.
22326 o Major bugfixes (security):
22327 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
22328 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
22329 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
22330 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
22331 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
22332 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
22333 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
22334 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
22335 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
22336 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
22337 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
22338 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22339 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
22340 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
22341 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
22342 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
22346 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
22347 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
22348 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
22349 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22350 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
22351 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
22352 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
22353 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
22354 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
22355 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22358 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
22359 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
22360 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
22361 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
22362 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22363 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
22364 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
22365 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
22366 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
22367 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
22368 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
22370 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
22371 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
22372 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
22374 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
22375 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
22376 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
22377 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
22378 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22379 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
22380 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
22381 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
22382 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22383 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
22384 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
22385 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
22386 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
22387 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
22390 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
22391 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
22392 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
22393 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
22394 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22395 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
22396 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
22397 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
22398 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
22399 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
22400 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
22401 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
22402 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
22403 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
22404 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
22407 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
22408 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
22409 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
22410 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
22411 Resolves ticket 6732.
22414 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
22415 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
22416 attack that could in theory leak path information.
22419 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
22420 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
22421 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22422 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
22423 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
22424 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
22425 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
22426 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
22427 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
22428 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
22429 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
22430 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
22431 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
22432 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
22435 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
22436 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
22437 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
22438 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
22441 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
22442 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
22443 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22444 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
22445 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
22446 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22447 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
22448 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
22449 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
22450 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
22451 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
22452 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
22453 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
22454 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
22455 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
22456 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
22457 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
22460 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
22461 a little more useful.
22462 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
22463 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22464 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
22465 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
22466 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
22467 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
22468 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
22471 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
22472 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22473 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
22474 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22475 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
22476 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
22480 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
22481 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
22482 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
22483 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
22484 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
22487 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
22488 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
22489 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
22492 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
22494 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
22496 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22497 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
22498 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
22499 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
22500 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
22503 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
22504 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
22505 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
22506 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
22507 since the beginning of Tor.
22510 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
22511 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
22512 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
22513 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
22514 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
22515 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
22516 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
22517 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
22518 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
22519 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
22522 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
22523 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
22526 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
22527 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
22528 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
22529 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
22532 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
22533 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22534 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
22535 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
22536 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
22537 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
22539 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
22540 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
22541 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
22542 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
22543 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
22544 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
22545 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22546 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
22547 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
22548 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
22549 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
22550 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
22551 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
22552 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22553 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
22554 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
22555 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22556 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
22557 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22559 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
22560 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
22561 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
22563 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
22564 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22565 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
22566 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
22568 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
22569 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22570 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
22571 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22572 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
22573 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
22574 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22575 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
22576 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22577 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
22578 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
22579 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
22580 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
22581 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
22582 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
22583 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
22586 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
22587 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
22588 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
22589 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
22590 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
22593 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
22594 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
22595 options. Closes bug 4748.
22598 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
22599 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
22600 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
22601 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
22602 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
22606 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
22607 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
22609 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
22610 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
22611 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
22612 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
22613 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
22614 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
22615 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
22616 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
22617 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
22620 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
22621 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
22622 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
22623 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
22624 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
22625 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
22626 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
22627 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
22630 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
22631 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
22632 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
22633 case for flushing marked connections.
22634 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
22635 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22636 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
22637 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
22638 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
22639 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
22640 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22641 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
22642 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22643 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
22644 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
22645 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
22646 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22647 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
22648 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
22649 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
22650 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22651 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
22652 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22653 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
22654 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
22655 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
22656 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22657 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
22658 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
22660 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
22661 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22662 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
22666 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
22667 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
22668 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
22669 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
22670 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
22671 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
22672 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
22673 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
22674 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
22675 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
22676 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
22677 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
22678 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
22679 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
22680 Addresses ticket 5458.
22681 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22683 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22684 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
22685 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
22688 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
22689 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
22690 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
22694 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
22695 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
22696 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
22697 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
22698 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
22699 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
22700 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22701 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
22702 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
22703 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
22704 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22707 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
22708 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
22711 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
22712 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
22715 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
22716 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
22717 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
22718 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
22719 that get us closer to a release candidate.
22721 o Major bugfixes (general):
22722 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
22723 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
22724 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
22725 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
22726 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
22727 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
22728 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22729 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
22730 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
22732 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
22733 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
22734 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
22735 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
22738 o Major bugfixes (clients):
22739 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
22740 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
22741 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
22742 which introduced predicted ports.
22743 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
22744 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
22745 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
22746 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22747 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
22748 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
22749 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
22750 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
22751 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
22752 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
22753 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22754 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
22755 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
22757 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22758 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
22759 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
22760 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
22761 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
22762 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
22763 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
22764 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
22765 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
22766 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
22767 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
22771 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
22772 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
22773 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
22774 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
22775 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
22776 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
22777 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
22778 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
22779 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
22780 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
22781 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
22782 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
22783 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
22784 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
22786 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
22787 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
22788 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
22789 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
22790 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
22791 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
22792 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
22793 sure. Closes bug 5139.
22794 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
22795 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
22796 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
22797 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
22798 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
22799 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
22800 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22802 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
22803 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
22804 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
22805 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
22806 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
22807 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
22808 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
22809 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
22810 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
22811 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
22812 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
22813 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
22814 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
22815 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
22816 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
22817 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
22818 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
22819 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22820 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
22821 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
22823 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
22824 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
22825 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
22826 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
22827 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
22828 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
22829 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22830 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
22831 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
22832 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
22833 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
22834 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
22835 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
22837 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
22838 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22839 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
22840 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
22842 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
22843 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
22844 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22845 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
22846 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
22847 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22848 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
22849 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
22850 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
22851 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
22853 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
22854 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
22855 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
22857 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
22858 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
22859 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
22860 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
22861 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
22862 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
22863 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
22864 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
22865 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
22866 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
22867 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
22868 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22869 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
22870 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
22871 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
22872 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22873 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
22874 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
22875 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
22876 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
22878 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
22879 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
22880 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22881 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
22882 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
22883 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
22885 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
22886 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
22887 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
22889 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
22890 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
22891 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
22892 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22893 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
22894 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22896 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
22897 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
22898 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
22900 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
22901 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
22902 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22903 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
22904 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
22905 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22906 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
22907 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
22908 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
22909 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
22910 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
22911 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
22912 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
22913 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
22914 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
22915 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
22917 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
22918 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
22919 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22920 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
22921 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
22922 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22923 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
22924 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22925 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
22926 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
22927 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
22928 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
22929 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
22932 o Documentation fixes:
22933 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
22934 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
22935 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
22936 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
22937 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
22938 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
22941 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
22942 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
22946 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
22947 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
22948 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
22949 and fixes several crash bugs.
22951 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
22952 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
22953 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
22954 those packages and upgrade anyway.
22956 o Directory authority changes:
22957 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
22958 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
22962 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
22963 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
22964 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
22965 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
22966 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
22967 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
22968 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
22969 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
22970 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
22971 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
22972 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
22973 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
22974 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
22975 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
22976 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
22977 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
22978 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
22979 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
22980 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
22981 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
22982 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
22983 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
22984 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
22985 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
22986 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
22987 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
22988 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
22991 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
22992 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22993 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
22994 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
22996 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
22997 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
22999 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
23000 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
23001 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
23002 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
23003 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
23004 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
23005 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
23006 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
23009 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
23010 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
23011 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
23012 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
23013 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
23014 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
23015 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
23016 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
23017 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
23018 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
23019 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
23020 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
23021 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
23022 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
23023 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
23024 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
23025 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
23026 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
23027 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
23028 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
23029 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
23030 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
23031 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
23032 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
23033 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
23034 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
23035 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
23036 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
23037 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
23038 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
23039 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
23040 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
23041 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23042 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
23043 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23044 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
23045 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
23046 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
23047 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
23048 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
23049 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
23050 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
23051 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
23052 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
23053 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
23054 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
23056 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
23057 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
23058 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
23059 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
23060 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
23061 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
23062 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
23063 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
23064 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
23065 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
23066 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23067 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
23068 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
23069 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
23070 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
23073 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
23074 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
23075 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
23076 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
23078 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23081 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
23082 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
23083 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
23084 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
23085 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
23086 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
23087 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
23090 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
23091 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
23092 the development branch build on Windows again.
23094 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23095 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
23096 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
23097 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
23098 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
23099 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
23100 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
23101 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
23102 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
23103 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
23104 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
23105 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
23106 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23107 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
23108 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
23110 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
23111 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
23112 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
23113 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23114 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
23115 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
23116 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
23117 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
23118 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
23119 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
23120 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
23121 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
23124 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
23125 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
23126 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
23127 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
23128 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
23129 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
23130 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
23131 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
23132 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
23134 o Removed features:
23135 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
23136 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
23137 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
23138 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
23142 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
23143 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
23144 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
23145 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
23147 o Directory authority changes:
23148 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
23152 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
23153 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23154 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
23155 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
23157 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
23158 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
23159 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
23160 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
23161 documents entirely.
23162 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
23163 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
23164 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23166 o Major features (performance):
23167 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
23168 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
23169 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
23170 much faster than other AES implementations.
23172 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
23173 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
23174 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
23175 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
23176 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
23177 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
23178 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
23179 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
23180 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
23181 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
23182 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
23183 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
23184 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
23185 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
23186 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
23187 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
23188 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
23189 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
23191 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
23192 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
23193 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
23194 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23195 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
23196 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23197 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
23198 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
23199 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
23201 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
23202 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
23203 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
23204 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
23205 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
23206 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
23209 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
23210 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
23211 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
23212 please let us know about it.
23213 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
23214 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
23215 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
23216 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
23217 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23218 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23219 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
23220 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
23222 o Default torrc changes:
23223 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
23224 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
23226 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
23227 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
23228 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
23231 o Removed features:
23232 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
23233 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
23234 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
23235 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
23237 o Code refactoring:
23238 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
23239 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
23240 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
23241 it would be a bad idea to start.
23244 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
23245 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
23246 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
23247 that get us closer to a release candidate.
23249 o Directory authority changes:
23250 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
23253 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
23254 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
23255 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
23256 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
23257 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
23258 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
23259 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
23260 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
23261 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
23262 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
23263 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
23264 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
23265 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
23266 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
23267 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
23268 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
23270 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
23271 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
23272 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
23273 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
23274 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
23275 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23276 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
23277 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
23278 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23279 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
23280 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
23281 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
23283 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
23284 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
23285 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23286 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
23287 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
23289 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23290 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
23291 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
23292 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
23293 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
23294 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
23295 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
23296 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
23297 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
23298 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
23299 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
23300 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
23301 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23302 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
23303 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23304 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
23305 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
23306 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
23307 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
23308 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
23309 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
23310 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
23313 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
23314 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
23315 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23316 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
23317 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
23318 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
23319 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
23320 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
23321 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23322 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
23323 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
23324 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
23325 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
23326 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
23327 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
23328 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
23329 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
23332 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
23333 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
23334 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23337 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
23338 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
23339 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
23340 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
23343 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
23344 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
23346 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
23347 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
23348 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
23349 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
23350 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
23351 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
23352 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
23353 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
23354 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
23355 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
23356 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
23357 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23360 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
23361 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
23362 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
23363 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
23364 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
23365 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
23366 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23369 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
23370 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
23371 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
23372 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23373 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
23374 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
23375 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
23376 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
23377 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
23378 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
23380 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
23381 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
23382 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
23383 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
23384 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23385 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
23386 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
23387 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
23388 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
23391 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23392 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
23393 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
23397 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
23398 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
23399 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
23400 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
23401 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
23402 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
23405 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
23406 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
23407 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
23408 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
23409 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
23410 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
23411 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
23412 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
23414 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
23415 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
23416 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
23417 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
23418 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
23419 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
23420 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
23421 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
23423 o Major security workaround:
23424 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
23425 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
23426 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
23427 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
23428 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
23429 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
23430 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
23431 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
23432 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
23433 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
23434 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
23437 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
23438 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
23439 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
23440 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
23441 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
23442 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
23443 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
23444 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23445 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
23446 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
23447 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
23448 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
23449 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
23451 o Minor features (controller):
23452 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
23453 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
23454 file. Resolves bug 1101.
23455 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
23456 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
23457 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
23458 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
23459 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
23460 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
23462 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
23463 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
23464 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
23465 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
23466 part of ticket 3457.
23467 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
23468 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
23469 circuit-status' control-port command.
23471 o Minor features (directory authorities):
23472 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
23473 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
23474 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
23475 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
23477 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
23478 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
23479 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
23480 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
23481 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
23482 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
23483 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
23485 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
23486 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
23488 o Minor features (other):
23489 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
23490 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
23491 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
23492 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
23493 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
23494 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
23495 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
23496 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
23498 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
23499 them from the other auths.
23500 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
23501 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
23502 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
23503 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
23504 the 0.2.3.x series.
23505 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23507 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23508 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
23509 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
23510 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
23511 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
23512 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
23513 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
23514 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
23515 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
23516 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
23517 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23518 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
23519 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
23520 be disabled using the new
23521 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
23522 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23523 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
23524 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
23525 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
23526 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
23527 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
23528 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
23529 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
23530 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
23531 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
23532 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
23534 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
23535 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
23536 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
23539 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23540 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
23541 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
23543 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
23544 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
23545 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
23546 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
23547 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
23548 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
23549 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
23551 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
23552 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
23553 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
23554 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
23555 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
23556 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
23557 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
23558 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
23560 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
23561 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
23562 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
23563 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
23564 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
23565 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
23566 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
23567 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
23568 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
23571 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23572 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
23573 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
23574 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
23575 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
23576 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
23577 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
23578 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
23579 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
23580 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
23581 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
23582 accidentally been reverted.
23583 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
23584 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
23585 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
23586 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
23587 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
23588 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
23589 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
23590 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
23591 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
23592 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23593 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
23594 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
23595 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
23596 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
23597 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23598 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
23599 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23600 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
23601 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23604 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
23605 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
23606 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
23607 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
23608 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
23609 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
23610 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
23612 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23613 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
23614 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
23615 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
23616 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
23617 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
23618 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
23620 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
23621 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
23622 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
23623 invalid value, rather than just -1.
23624 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
23625 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
23626 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
23627 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
23628 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
23629 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
23630 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
23634 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
23635 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
23636 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
23638 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
23639 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
23640 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
23641 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
23642 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
23643 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
23644 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
23645 (which Tor does not do by default).
23647 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
23648 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
23649 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
23650 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
23651 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
23653 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
23657 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
23658 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
23659 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
23660 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
23663 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
23664 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
23665 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
23666 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
23667 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
23668 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
23669 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
23670 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
23671 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
23672 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
23673 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23676 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23679 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
23680 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
23681 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
23683 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
23684 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
23685 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
23686 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
23687 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
23688 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
23689 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
23690 (which Tor does not do by default).
23692 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
23693 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
23694 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
23695 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
23696 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
23698 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
23699 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
23700 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
23703 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
23704 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
23705 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
23706 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
23707 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
23709 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
23710 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
23713 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
23714 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
23715 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
23716 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
23717 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
23718 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
23719 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
23720 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
23722 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
23723 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
23724 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
23725 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
23726 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
23727 close based on processing a cell on it.
23728 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
23729 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
23730 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
23731 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23732 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
23733 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
23734 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23735 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
23736 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
23737 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
23738 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
23739 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
23740 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
23741 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
23742 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
23745 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
23746 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
23747 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
23748 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
23749 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
23750 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
23751 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
23753 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
23754 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
23755 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
23756 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
23757 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
23758 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23759 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
23760 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
23761 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23762 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
23763 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
23764 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
23765 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
23766 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23767 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
23768 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
23769 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
23770 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
23771 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23772 Reported by "troll_un".
23773 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
23774 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23775 Reported by "troll_un".
23776 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
23777 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
23778 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
23779 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
23782 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
23783 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
23784 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
23785 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
23786 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
23787 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
23788 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
23789 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
23790 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
23791 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
23792 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23794 o Packaging changes:
23795 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
23796 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
23799 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
23800 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
23801 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
23802 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
23803 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
23805 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
23806 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
23808 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23809 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
23810 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
23811 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
23812 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23813 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
23814 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
23815 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
23816 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
23819 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23822 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
23823 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
23824 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
23825 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
23826 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
23827 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
23828 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
23831 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
23832 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
23833 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
23834 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
23835 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
23836 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
23837 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
23838 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
23839 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
23840 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
23841 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
23842 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
23843 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
23844 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
23845 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
23846 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
23847 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
23848 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
23849 Resolves ticket 4526.
23850 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
23851 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
23852 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
23853 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
23854 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
23855 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
23856 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
23857 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
23858 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
23859 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
23860 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
23861 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
23862 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
23863 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
23864 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
23865 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
23868 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
23869 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
23870 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
23871 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
23872 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
23873 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
23874 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
23875 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
23876 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
23877 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
23879 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
23880 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
23881 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
23882 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
23883 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
23884 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
23885 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
23886 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
23887 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
23889 o Minor features (new/different config options):
23890 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
23891 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
23892 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
23893 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
23894 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
23895 Implements issue 933.
23896 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
23897 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
23898 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
23899 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
23900 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
23901 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
23902 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
23903 appending to the list.
23904 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
23905 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
23906 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
23907 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
23909 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
23910 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
23911 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
23912 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
23913 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
23914 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
23915 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
23916 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
23919 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
23920 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
23921 Resolves ticket 2474.
23922 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
23923 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
23924 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
23925 Required by fix for bug 3460.
23926 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
23927 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
23928 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
23929 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
23930 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
23931 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
23932 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
23933 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
23934 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
23936 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23937 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
23938 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
23940 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
23942 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
23943 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
23945 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
23946 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
23947 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
23948 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
23949 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
23950 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
23951 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
23953 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
23954 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
23955 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23956 Reported by "troll_un".
23957 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
23958 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23959 Reported by "troll_un".
23960 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
23961 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
23962 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
23963 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
23965 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
23966 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
23968 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
23969 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
23970 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
23971 with help from wanoskarnet.
23972 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
23973 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
23976 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
23977 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
23978 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
23979 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23981 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
23982 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
23983 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
23984 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
23985 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
23986 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
23987 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
23988 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
23991 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
23992 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
23993 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
23994 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
23995 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
23996 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
23997 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
23998 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
23999 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
24002 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
24003 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
24004 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
24005 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
24007 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
24008 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
24009 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
24010 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24011 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
24012 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
24013 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
24014 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
24015 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
24016 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
24017 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
24018 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
24019 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
24020 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
24021 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
24022 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
24023 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
24024 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
24025 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
24026 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
24027 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
24028 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
24029 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
24030 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
24033 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
24034 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
24035 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
24036 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
24037 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
24038 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24039 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
24040 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
24043 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24044 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
24045 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
24046 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
24047 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
24048 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
24049 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
24050 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
24051 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
24052 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
24053 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
24054 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
24055 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
24056 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
24057 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
24059 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
24060 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
24061 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
24062 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
24063 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24064 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
24065 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
24066 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24067 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
24068 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
24069 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
24070 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
24071 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
24072 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
24073 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
24074 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
24075 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
24077 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24078 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
24079 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
24080 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
24081 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24082 Found by frosty_un.
24083 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
24084 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
24085 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
24087 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
24088 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
24089 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
24091 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
24092 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
24094 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
24095 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24098 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
24099 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
24100 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
24101 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
24102 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
24103 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
24104 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
24105 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
24106 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
24107 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
24108 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
24109 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
24110 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
24111 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
24113 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
24114 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
24115 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24117 o Packaging changes:
24118 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
24119 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
24121 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24122 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
24123 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
24124 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
24125 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
24126 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
24127 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
24128 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
24129 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
24132 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
24134 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
24135 ./src/test/bench binary.
24136 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
24137 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
24140 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
24141 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
24142 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
24146 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
24147 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
24148 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
24149 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
24150 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
24151 close based on processing a cell on it.
24152 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
24153 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
24154 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24155 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
24156 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
24157 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
24158 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
24159 cells were introduced.
24162 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
24163 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
24166 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
24167 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
24168 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
24169 users. Everybody should upgrade.
24171 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
24172 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
24175 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
24176 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
24177 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
24178 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
24179 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
24180 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
24182 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
24183 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
24184 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
24185 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
24186 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
24187 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
24188 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
24189 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
24190 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
24191 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
24192 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
24193 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
24194 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
24195 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
24196 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
24197 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
24198 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
24199 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
24202 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24203 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
24204 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
24205 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
24206 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
24207 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
24208 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
24209 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
24210 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
24211 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
24212 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
24213 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
24214 Partly fixes bug 3825.
24215 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
24216 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
24217 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
24218 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
24219 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
24220 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
24221 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
24223 o Major bugfixes (other):
24224 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
24225 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
24226 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
24227 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24228 Found by "frosty_un".
24229 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
24230 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
24231 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
24232 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
24233 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
24234 immensely in tracking this bug down.
24235 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
24236 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
24239 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24240 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
24241 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
24242 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
24243 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
24244 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
24245 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
24246 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
24247 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
24248 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
24249 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
24250 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
24251 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
24252 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24253 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
24254 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
24255 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
24256 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
24257 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
24258 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
24259 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
24261 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24262 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
24263 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
24264 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24265 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
24266 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
24267 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
24268 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
24269 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
24270 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
24271 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
24274 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
24275 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
24276 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
24277 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
24278 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
24279 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
24280 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
24281 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
24282 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
24283 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
24284 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
24285 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
24286 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
24287 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24289 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24290 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
24291 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
24292 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
24293 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
24294 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
24295 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
24296 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
24299 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
24300 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
24301 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
24303 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
24304 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
24305 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
24306 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
24307 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
24308 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
24309 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
24310 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
24311 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
24312 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
24313 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
24314 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
24315 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
24317 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
24318 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
24319 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
24320 currently connected to them.
24322 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
24323 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
24324 remain; see for example proposal 188.
24326 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
24327 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
24328 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
24329 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
24330 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
24331 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
24332 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
24333 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
24334 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
24335 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
24336 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
24337 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
24338 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
24339 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
24340 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
24341 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
24342 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
24343 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
24346 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
24347 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
24348 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
24349 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
24350 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
24351 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
24352 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
24353 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
24354 when bridges were introduced.
24355 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
24356 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
24357 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
24358 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24359 Found by "frosty_un".
24362 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
24363 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
24365 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
24366 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
24367 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
24368 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
24369 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
24370 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
24371 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
24374 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
24375 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
24376 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
24377 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
24378 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
24379 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
24380 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
24381 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
24382 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
24383 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
24384 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
24385 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
24386 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
24387 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
24388 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
24389 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
24390 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
24391 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
24393 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
24394 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
24395 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
24396 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24397 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
24398 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
24399 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
24400 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
24401 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
24402 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
24403 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
24404 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24407 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
24408 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
24409 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
24410 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24413 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
24414 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
24415 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
24416 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
24417 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
24419 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
24420 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
24421 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
24422 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
24423 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
24424 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
24425 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
24426 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
24427 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
24428 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24430 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
24431 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
24432 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
24433 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
24434 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
24435 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
24436 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
24437 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
24438 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
24439 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
24440 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
24441 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
24442 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
24443 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
24444 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24445 Found by "frosty_un".
24446 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
24447 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
24448 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
24449 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
24450 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
24451 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
24452 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
24453 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
24454 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
24455 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
24456 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
24457 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
24458 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24459 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
24460 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
24461 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
24462 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
24463 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
24464 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
24466 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
24467 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
24468 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
24469 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
24470 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
24471 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
24472 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
24473 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
24475 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
24476 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
24477 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
24478 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
24479 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
24480 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
24481 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
24482 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
24483 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
24484 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
24485 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
24486 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
24488 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
24489 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24490 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
24491 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24492 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
24493 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24494 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
24495 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
24496 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
24498 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
24500 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
24501 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
24502 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
24503 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24504 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
24505 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
24506 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
24507 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24509 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
24510 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
24511 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
24512 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
24513 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
24515 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
24516 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
24517 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
24518 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
24519 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24522 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
24523 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
24524 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
24525 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
24526 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
24529 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
24530 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
24531 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
24532 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
24533 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
24534 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
24535 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
24536 when bridges were introduced.
24539 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
24540 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
24541 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24543 o Major features (networking):
24544 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
24545 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
24546 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
24547 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
24548 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
24552 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
24553 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
24554 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
24556 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
24557 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
24558 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
24559 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
24560 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24562 o Minor features (diagnostics):
24563 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
24564 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
24567 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
24568 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
24569 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
24570 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
24571 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
24572 listed in the network consensus and republish.
24574 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
24575 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
24576 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
24577 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
24579 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
24580 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
24581 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
24582 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
24583 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
24584 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
24585 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
24586 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
24587 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
24588 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
24589 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
24591 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
24592 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
24593 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
24594 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
24595 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
24596 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
24597 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
24598 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
24599 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
24600 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24602 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
24603 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
24604 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
24605 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
24606 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
24607 fixes part of bug 2442.
24608 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
24609 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
24610 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
24612 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
24613 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
24614 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
24615 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
24616 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24618 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
24619 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
24620 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
24621 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
24622 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
24625 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
24626 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
24627 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
24631 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
24632 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
24633 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
24634 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
24635 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
24636 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
24637 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
24640 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
24641 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
24642 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
24643 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
24644 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
24645 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
24646 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
24649 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
24650 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
24651 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
24652 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
24653 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
24654 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
24655 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
24656 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
24657 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24659 o Code refactoring:
24660 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
24661 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
24664 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
24665 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
24666 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
24667 reachable from Iran again.
24670 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
24671 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
24672 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
24674 o Minor features (security):
24675 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
24676 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
24677 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
24678 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
24679 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
24680 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
24681 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
24682 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
24683 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
24684 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
24687 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
24688 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
24689 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
24690 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
24691 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
24692 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
24693 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
24694 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
24695 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24697 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
24698 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
24699 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
24700 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
24701 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
24702 raised by bug 3898.
24703 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
24704 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
24705 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
24706 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
24707 fixes part of bug 2442.
24708 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
24709 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
24710 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
24712 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
24713 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
24714 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
24715 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
24716 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24719 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
24720 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
24721 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
24722 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
24723 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
24724 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
24727 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
24728 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
24729 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
24730 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
24731 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
24732 bufferevent-based networking backend.
24734 o Major features (stream isolation):
24735 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
24736 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
24737 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
24738 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
24739 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
24740 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
24741 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
24742 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
24743 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
24744 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
24745 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
24746 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
24747 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
24748 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
24750 o Major features (other):
24751 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
24752 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
24753 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
24754 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
24755 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
24756 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
24757 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
24758 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
24759 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
24760 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
24761 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
24762 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
24763 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
24765 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
24766 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
24768 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
24769 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
24770 Fixes part of bug 3752.
24771 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
24772 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
24773 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
24774 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
24775 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
24776 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
24777 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
24778 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
24779 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
24780 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
24781 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
24782 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
24783 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
24784 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
24785 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
24786 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
24787 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
24789 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
24790 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
24791 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
24792 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
24793 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
24794 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
24797 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
24798 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
24799 user. Implements ticket 1692.
24800 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
24801 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
24802 best copy data out of a buffer.
24803 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
24804 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
24805 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
24807 o Minor features (build compatibility):
24808 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
24809 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
24810 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
24812 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
24813 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24815 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
24816 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
24817 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24818 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
24819 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
24820 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
24821 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24823 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
24824 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
24825 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
24826 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
24827 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
24828 raised by bug 3898.
24829 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
24830 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
24831 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
24834 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
24835 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
24836 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
24837 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
24838 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
24839 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
24840 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
24841 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
24842 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
24843 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
24844 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
24845 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24846 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
24847 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
24848 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
24849 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
24850 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
24851 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
24852 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
24855 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24856 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
24857 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
24861 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
24862 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
24863 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
24864 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
24865 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
24866 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
24869 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
24870 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
24871 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
24872 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
24873 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
24874 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
24875 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
24876 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
24877 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
24878 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
24880 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
24881 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
24882 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
24883 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
24884 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
24885 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
24886 many many other features and bugfixes.
24889 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
24890 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
24891 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
24894 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
24895 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
24896 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
24897 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
24898 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
24899 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
24900 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
24901 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
24904 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24907 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
24908 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
24909 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24910 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
24911 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
24912 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
24913 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
24914 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
24915 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
24916 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
24917 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
24918 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
24919 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
24920 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24921 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
24922 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
24923 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
24924 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
24928 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
24929 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
24930 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
24931 up a variety of recently introduced features.
24934 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
24935 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
24936 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
24937 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
24938 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
24939 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
24940 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
24941 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
24942 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
24943 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
24944 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
24945 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
24946 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
24947 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
24948 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
24949 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
24951 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
24952 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
24953 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
24954 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
24955 order. Fixes bug 2798.
24956 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
24957 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
24958 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
24959 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
24960 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
24961 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
24965 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
24966 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
24967 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
24968 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
24970 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
24971 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
24972 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
24973 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
24974 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
24975 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
24976 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
24977 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
24978 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
24979 Implements ticket 3264.
24980 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
24981 implements ticket 3439.
24983 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
24984 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
24985 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
24986 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
24987 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
24988 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
24989 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
24990 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
24991 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
24992 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
24993 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
24994 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
24995 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
24996 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
24997 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
24998 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
24999 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
25000 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
25001 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
25002 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
25003 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
25004 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
25005 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
25006 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
25007 fails. Spotted by coverity.
25008 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
25009 present. Found by coverity.
25010 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
25011 a directory cache that provides them.
25013 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25014 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
25015 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
25016 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
25017 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
25018 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
25020 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
25021 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
25022 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25023 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
25024 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
25025 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25026 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
25027 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
25029 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25030 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
25031 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
25032 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
25033 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
25034 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
25035 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
25037 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
25041 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
25042 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
25043 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
25046 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
25047 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
25048 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
25049 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
25052 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
25053 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
25054 discovered by katmagic.
25055 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
25056 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
25057 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
25058 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25059 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
25060 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
25061 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
25062 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
25063 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
25064 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
25065 fixes part of bug 3465.
25066 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
25067 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
25071 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25074 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
25075 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
25076 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
25077 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
25078 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
25081 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
25082 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
25083 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
25084 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
25085 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
25088 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
25089 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
25090 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
25091 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
25092 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
25093 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
25096 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
25097 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
25098 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
25099 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
25100 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
25101 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
25102 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
25103 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
25104 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
25105 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
25106 fixes part of bug 3407.
25107 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
25108 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
25109 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
25110 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
25111 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
25112 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
25113 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
25114 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
25115 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
25116 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
25118 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
25119 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
25120 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
25121 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
25124 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25126 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25127 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
25128 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
25130 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
25132 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
25135 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
25136 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
25137 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
25138 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
25139 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
25140 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
25144 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
25145 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
25146 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
25147 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
25148 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
25149 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
25150 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
25152 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
25153 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
25154 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
25155 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
25156 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
25157 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
25158 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
25159 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
25160 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
25161 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
25162 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
25163 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
25164 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
25165 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
25166 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
25167 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
25168 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
25169 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
25170 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
25174 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
25175 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
25176 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
25177 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
25178 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
25179 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
25180 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
25181 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
25182 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
25186 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
25187 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
25188 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
25190 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
25192 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
25193 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
25194 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
25195 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
25196 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25197 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
25198 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
25199 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
25200 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
25202 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
25203 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
25204 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
25205 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
25206 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
25207 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
25209 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
25210 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
25212 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
25213 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
25214 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
25217 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
25218 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
25219 Resolves ticket 3252.
25220 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
25221 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
25222 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
25223 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
25224 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
25225 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
25228 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
25229 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
25232 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
25233 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
25234 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
25237 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
25238 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
25239 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
25240 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
25241 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
25244 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
25245 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
25246 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
25247 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
25248 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
25249 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
25250 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
25251 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
25252 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
25256 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
25257 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
25258 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
25259 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
25260 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
25262 o Security/privacy fixes:
25263 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
25264 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
25265 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
25266 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
25267 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
25268 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
25269 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
25270 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
25271 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
25272 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
25273 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
25274 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
25275 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
25276 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
25277 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25280 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
25281 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
25282 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
25283 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
25284 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
25285 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
25286 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
25287 part of ticket 3076.
25288 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
25289 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
25290 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
25294 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
25295 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
25296 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
25297 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
25298 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
25299 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
25300 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
25301 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
25303 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
25304 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
25305 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
25306 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
25307 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
25308 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
25309 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
25310 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
25311 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
25312 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
25313 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
25314 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
25315 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25318 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
25319 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
25320 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
25321 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
25322 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
25323 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
25324 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
25326 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
25327 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
25328 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
25329 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
25330 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
25331 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
25332 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
25333 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
25334 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
25335 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
25336 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
25337 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
25338 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
25339 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
25340 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
25341 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
25343 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
25344 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
25346 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
25347 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
25349 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
25350 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
25352 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
25353 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
25354 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25356 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
25357 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
25358 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
25359 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
25360 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25361 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
25362 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
25363 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
25364 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
25365 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
25366 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
25368 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
25369 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
25370 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
25371 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
25372 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
25373 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
25374 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
25375 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
25376 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
25377 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
25378 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25379 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
25380 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
25383 o Removed features:
25384 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
25385 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
25386 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
25390 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
25391 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
25392 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
25393 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
25394 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
25395 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
25397 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
25398 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
25399 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
25402 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
25403 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
25404 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
25405 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
25406 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
25407 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
25408 zero-copy transports where available.
25409 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
25410 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
25411 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
25412 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
25413 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
25414 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
25415 debug it as it breaks.
25416 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
25417 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
25418 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
25419 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
25420 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
25421 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
25422 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
25423 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
25424 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
25425 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
25426 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
25427 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
25428 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
25429 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
25430 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
25431 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
25432 PortForwarding option.
25433 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
25434 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
25435 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
25436 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
25437 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
25438 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
25439 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
25442 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
25443 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
25444 Implements enhancement 1668.
25445 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
25447 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
25448 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
25449 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
25450 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
25451 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
25452 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
25453 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
25455 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
25456 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
25457 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
25458 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
25459 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
25460 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
25461 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
25463 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
25464 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
25465 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
25466 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
25467 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
25468 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
25469 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
25471 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
25472 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
25473 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
25474 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
25475 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25476 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
25477 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
25478 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
25479 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
25480 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
25481 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
25482 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
25483 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
25484 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
25485 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
25488 o Minor features (controller):
25489 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
25490 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
25491 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
25492 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
25493 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
25494 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
25495 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
25498 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
25499 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
25500 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
25501 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
25502 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
25503 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
25504 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
25505 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
25507 o Minor packaging issues:
25508 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
25509 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
25511 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25512 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
25513 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
25514 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
25515 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
25516 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
25517 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
25518 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
25519 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
25520 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
25521 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
25522 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
25523 our library structure used to force them to link it.
25525 o Removed features:
25526 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
25527 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
25528 are no longer in use as servers.
25530 o Documentation fixes:
25531 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
25532 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
25533 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
25537 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
25538 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
25539 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
25540 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
25541 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
25542 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
25543 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
25544 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
25545 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
25546 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
25549 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
25550 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
25551 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
25552 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
25553 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
25554 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
25555 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
25556 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
25557 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
25558 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25559 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
25560 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
25561 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25562 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
25563 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
25564 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
25566 o Security and stability fixes:
25567 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
25568 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
25569 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
25570 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
25571 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
25572 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
25573 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
25574 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
25575 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
25576 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
25577 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
25578 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
25579 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25580 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
25581 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
25582 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
25585 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
25586 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
25587 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
25588 contributions to the network.
25590 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
25591 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
25592 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
25593 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
25594 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
25595 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
25596 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
25597 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
25598 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
25599 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
25600 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
25601 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
25602 connections to directory servers.
25603 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
25604 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
25605 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
25606 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
25607 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
25608 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
25609 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
25610 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
25611 information, or fetch directory information.
25612 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
25613 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
25614 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
25615 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
25616 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
25617 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
25618 unless you really want your Tor to break.
25619 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
25620 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
25621 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
25622 - When StrictNodes is 1:
25623 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
25624 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
25625 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
25626 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
25627 reachability self-tests.
25628 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
25629 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
25630 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
25631 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
25632 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
25633 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
25634 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
25636 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
25637 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25638 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
25639 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
25640 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
25641 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
25642 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
25643 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
25644 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
25645 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
25646 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
25649 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
25650 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
25651 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
25652 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
25653 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
25654 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
25655 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
25656 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
25657 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
25658 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
25659 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
25660 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25661 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
25662 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
25663 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
25664 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
25665 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
25667 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
25668 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
25669 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
25670 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
25671 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
25672 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
25673 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25674 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
25675 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
25676 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
25677 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
25678 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
25679 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
25680 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
25681 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
25682 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25683 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
25684 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
25685 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
25686 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
25689 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
25690 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
25691 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
25692 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
25693 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
25694 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
25695 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
25696 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
25697 Required by fix for bug 3000.
25698 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
25699 by fix for bug 3000.
25700 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
25701 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
25703 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25704 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
25705 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
25706 send a body too). Since only server versions before
25707 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
25708 keep the workaround in place.
25709 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
25710 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
25711 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
25712 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
25713 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
25714 want to do it differently.
25715 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
25716 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
25717 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
25718 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
25719 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
25723 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
25724 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
25725 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
25726 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
25727 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
25730 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
25731 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
25732 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
25733 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
25734 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
25736 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
25737 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
25738 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
25739 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
25740 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
25741 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
25742 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
25743 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
25744 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
25745 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
25746 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
25747 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
25750 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
25751 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
25752 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
25753 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
25754 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
25755 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
25756 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
25758 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
25759 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
25760 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
25761 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
25762 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
25763 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
25764 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
25765 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
25766 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
25767 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
25768 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
25769 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
25770 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
25771 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
25772 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
25773 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
25774 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
25775 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
25776 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
25777 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
25778 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
25779 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
25780 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25783 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
25784 networkstatus vote.
25785 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
25786 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
25787 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
25789 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
25790 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
25791 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
25792 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
25794 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
25795 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
25796 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
25797 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25800 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
25801 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
25803 o Documentation changes:
25804 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
25805 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
25807 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
25810 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
25811 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
25812 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
25813 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
25814 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
25815 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
25818 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
25819 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
25820 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
25821 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
25822 the rest of bug 1074.
25823 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
25824 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
25825 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25826 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
25827 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
25828 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
25829 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25830 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
25831 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
25832 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
25833 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
25834 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
25835 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
25836 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25839 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
25840 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
25841 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
25842 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
25843 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
25844 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
25845 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
25846 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
25847 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
25848 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
25849 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
25850 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
25851 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
25852 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
25854 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
25855 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
25856 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
25857 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
25858 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
25859 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
25861 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
25862 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
25863 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
25864 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
25865 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
25866 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
25867 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
25868 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
25869 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
25870 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25871 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
25872 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
25873 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
25874 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
25875 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
25876 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
25877 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
25878 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
25879 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
25880 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
25881 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
25882 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
25883 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
25884 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
25885 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
25886 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
25888 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
25889 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
25890 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
25891 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
25892 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
25893 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
25895 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
25896 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
25897 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
25899 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
25900 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
25901 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
25902 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
25903 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
25904 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
25905 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
25906 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
25907 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
25908 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
25909 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
25910 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
25911 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
25915 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
25916 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
25917 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
25918 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
25919 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
25920 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
25921 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
25922 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
25923 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
25924 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
25925 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
25926 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
25928 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25930 o Minor features (log subsystem):
25931 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
25932 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
25933 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
25935 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
25936 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
25938 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
25939 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
25940 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
25943 o Packaging changes:
25944 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
25945 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
25946 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
25949 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
25950 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
25951 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
25952 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
25953 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
25954 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
25957 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
25958 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
25959 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
25960 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
25961 the rest of bug 1074.
25962 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
25963 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25964 Found by "piebeer".
25965 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
25966 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
25967 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
25968 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
25969 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
25970 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
25971 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25974 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
25976 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25979 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
25980 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
25981 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
25982 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
25983 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
25984 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
25985 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
25986 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
25987 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
25988 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
25989 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25991 o Packaging changes:
25992 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
25993 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
25994 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
25995 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
25996 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
25997 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
26000 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
26001 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
26002 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
26003 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
26004 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
26005 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
26008 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
26009 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26010 Found by "piebeer".
26011 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
26012 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
26013 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
26014 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
26017 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
26019 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
26020 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
26021 Implements ticket 2432.
26024 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
26025 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
26026 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
26029 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
26030 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
26031 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
26032 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
26033 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
26034 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
26036 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
26037 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
26038 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
26039 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
26041 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
26042 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
26043 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
26044 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
26045 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
26046 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
26047 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
26048 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
26050 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
26051 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
26052 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
26053 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
26054 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
26055 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
26056 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
26057 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
26058 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
26059 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
26060 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
26061 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
26062 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
26063 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
26066 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
26067 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
26068 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
26069 bug reported by doorss.
26070 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
26071 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
26072 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
26073 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
26074 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
26076 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
26077 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
26078 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
26079 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
26080 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
26082 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
26083 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26084 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
26086 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
26087 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
26088 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
26089 Automake 1.7 or later.
26090 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
26091 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
26092 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
26093 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
26095 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
26096 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
26097 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
26100 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
26101 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
26102 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
26103 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
26105 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
26106 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
26107 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
26108 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
26109 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
26110 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
26111 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
26112 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
26113 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
26115 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
26116 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
26117 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
26120 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
26121 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
26122 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
26123 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
26124 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
26125 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
26126 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
26127 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
26128 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
26129 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
26130 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
26131 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
26132 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
26134 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
26135 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
26139 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
26140 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
26141 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
26142 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
26143 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
26145 o Major bugfixes (security):
26146 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
26147 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
26148 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
26150 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
26151 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
26152 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
26153 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
26154 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
26155 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
26156 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
26157 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
26159 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26160 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
26161 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
26162 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
26163 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
26164 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
26165 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
26166 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
26167 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
26168 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
26169 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
26170 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
26171 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
26172 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
26175 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26176 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
26177 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
26178 bug reported by doorss.
26179 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
26180 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
26181 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
26182 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
26183 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
26185 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
26186 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
26187 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
26188 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
26189 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
26190 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
26191 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
26192 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
26193 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
26196 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26197 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
26200 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
26201 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
26202 Automake 1.7 or later.
26205 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
26206 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
26207 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
26208 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
26209 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
26212 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
26213 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
26214 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
26215 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
26216 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
26217 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
26218 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
26219 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
26220 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
26221 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
26222 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
26224 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
26225 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
26226 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
26227 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
26229 o Directory authority changes:
26230 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
26233 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
26234 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
26235 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
26236 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
26237 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
26238 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
26239 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
26240 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
26241 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
26244 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26245 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
26246 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
26247 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
26248 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
26249 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
26250 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
26251 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
26252 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
26253 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
26257 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
26258 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
26259 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
26260 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
26264 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
26265 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
26266 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
26267 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
26269 o Directory authority changes:
26270 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
26273 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26276 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
26277 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
26278 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
26279 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
26280 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
26283 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
26284 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
26285 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
26286 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
26287 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
26288 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
26289 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
26290 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
26291 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
26292 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26293 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
26294 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
26295 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
26296 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
26297 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
26298 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
26299 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
26300 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
26301 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
26302 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
26303 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
26304 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
26305 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
26308 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
26309 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
26310 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
26311 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
26313 o New directory authorities:
26314 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
26318 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
26319 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
26320 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
26322 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
26323 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
26324 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
26325 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
26326 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
26327 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
26329 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
26330 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
26331 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
26334 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
26335 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
26336 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
26337 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
26338 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
26339 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
26340 Patch from mingw-san.
26343 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
26344 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
26345 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
26346 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
26347 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
26348 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
26351 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
26352 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
26353 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
26356 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
26357 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
26358 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
26359 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
26360 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
26363 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
26364 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
26365 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
26366 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
26367 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
26368 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
26369 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
26370 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
26371 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
26374 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
26375 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
26376 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
26377 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
26378 to a stable release.
26381 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
26382 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
26383 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
26384 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
26385 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
26386 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
26387 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
26388 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
26389 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26390 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
26391 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
26392 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
26393 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
26394 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
26395 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
26396 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
26397 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
26398 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
26399 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
26400 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
26401 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
26402 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
26403 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
26404 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
26405 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26406 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
26407 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
26408 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
26409 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
26410 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
26411 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
26414 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
26415 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
26416 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
26417 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
26418 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
26419 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
26420 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
26421 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
26422 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
26423 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
26424 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
26425 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
26426 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
26427 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
26428 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
26429 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
26430 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
26432 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
26433 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
26434 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
26435 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
26436 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
26438 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
26439 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
26440 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
26441 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
26444 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
26445 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
26446 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
26447 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
26448 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
26449 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
26450 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
26451 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26453 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26454 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
26455 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
26456 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
26457 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
26458 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
26459 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
26460 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
26461 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
26462 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
26463 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
26464 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
26465 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
26466 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
26467 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
26470 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
26471 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
26472 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
26473 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
26474 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
26475 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
26476 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
26477 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
26478 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
26481 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
26482 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
26483 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
26484 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
26485 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
26487 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
26488 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
26489 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
26490 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
26491 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
26492 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
26493 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
26494 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
26495 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
26496 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
26497 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
26498 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
26499 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
26500 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
26502 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
26503 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
26505 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
26506 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
26507 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
26508 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
26509 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
26510 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
26511 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
26512 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
26513 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
26514 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
26515 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
26516 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
26517 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
26518 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
26519 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
26520 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
26521 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
26522 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26524 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
26525 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
26526 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
26527 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
26528 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
26529 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
26530 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
26531 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
26532 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
26533 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
26534 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
26535 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
26536 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
26538 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
26539 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
26540 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
26541 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26544 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
26545 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
26546 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
26547 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
26548 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
26549 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
26550 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
26551 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
26552 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
26553 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
26554 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
26555 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
26556 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
26557 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
26558 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
26559 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
26560 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
26561 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
26562 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
26565 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
26566 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
26567 based on the time during which we were active and not in
26568 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
26569 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
26570 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
26571 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
26572 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
26574 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
26575 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
26576 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
26577 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
26578 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
26579 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
26580 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
26581 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
26582 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
26583 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26586 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
26587 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
26588 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
26589 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
26591 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
26592 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
26593 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
26594 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
26595 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
26596 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
26597 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
26598 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
26599 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
26600 the longest-lived bug prize.
26601 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
26602 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
26603 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
26604 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
26605 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
26606 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
26608 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
26609 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
26610 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
26611 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
26612 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
26613 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
26617 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26618 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
26619 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
26620 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
26621 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
26622 got suppressed since the last warning.
26623 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
26624 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
26625 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
26626 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
26627 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
26628 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
26629 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
26630 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
26631 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
26632 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
26633 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
26634 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
26635 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
26636 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
26637 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
26638 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
26639 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
26640 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
26641 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
26643 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
26644 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
26645 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
26647 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
26648 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
26649 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
26650 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
26651 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
26652 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
26653 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
26654 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
26655 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
26656 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
26657 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
26658 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
26659 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
26660 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
26661 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
26663 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
26664 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
26665 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
26666 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
26667 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
26668 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26669 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
26671 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
26672 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
26673 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
26674 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
26675 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
26678 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
26679 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
26680 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
26681 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
26682 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
26683 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
26684 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
26685 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
26686 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
26687 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
26688 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
26689 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
26690 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
26691 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
26692 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
26693 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
26694 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
26695 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
26698 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
26701 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
26702 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
26703 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
26704 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
26705 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
26709 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
26710 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
26711 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
26712 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
26713 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
26714 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
26715 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
26716 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
26717 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
26718 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
26719 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
26720 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
26721 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
26722 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
26723 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
26724 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
26725 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
26728 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
26729 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
26730 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
26731 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
26732 they first get the Guard flag.
26733 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
26737 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26738 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
26739 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
26740 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
26741 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
26742 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
26743 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
26744 Patch from mingw-san.
26745 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
26746 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
26748 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
26749 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
26750 Implements enhancement 1790.
26752 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
26753 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
26754 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
26755 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
26756 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
26757 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
26758 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
26759 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
26760 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
26761 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
26762 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
26763 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
26764 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
26765 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
26766 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
26767 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
26768 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
26769 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
26770 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
26771 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
26773 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
26774 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
26775 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
26776 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
26777 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
26778 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
26779 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
26780 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
26781 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
26782 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
26783 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
26784 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
26785 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
26787 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
26788 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
26789 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
26790 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
26791 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
26792 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
26794 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
26795 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
26796 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
26797 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
26798 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
26799 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
26800 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
26801 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
26802 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
26803 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
26804 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
26805 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
26807 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
26808 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
26809 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
26810 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
26811 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
26812 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
26813 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
26815 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
26817 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
26818 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
26819 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
26820 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
26821 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
26822 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
26824 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26825 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
26826 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
26827 structures and defines in or.h for now.
26828 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
26829 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
26830 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
26831 statistics code to be more easily tested.
26832 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
26833 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
26834 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
26837 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
26838 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
26839 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
26840 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
26841 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
26842 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
26846 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
26847 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
26848 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
26849 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
26850 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
26851 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
26852 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
26853 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
26854 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
26855 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
26856 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
26857 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
26858 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
26860 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
26861 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
26862 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
26863 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
26864 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
26865 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
26866 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
26867 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
26868 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
26869 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
26870 can be controlled by the consensus.
26873 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
26874 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
26875 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
26876 more accurate data for many African countries.
26877 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
26878 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
26879 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
26880 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
26881 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
26882 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
26883 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
26884 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
26885 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
26886 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
26887 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
26888 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
26890 o New directory authorities:
26891 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
26895 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
26896 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
26897 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
26898 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
26899 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
26900 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
26901 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
26902 what should go in a patch.
26903 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
26904 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
26905 over our stored history.
26906 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
26907 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
26908 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
26909 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
26910 file. Fixes bug 1296.
26911 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
26912 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
26913 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
26917 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
26919 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
26920 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
26921 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
26922 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
26923 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
26924 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
26925 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
26926 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
26927 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
26928 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
26929 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
26930 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26931 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
26932 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
26933 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
26934 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
26935 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
26936 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
26937 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
26938 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
26939 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
26940 two-hop circuits are actually created.
26941 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
26942 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26943 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
26944 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26947 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
26948 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
26949 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
26950 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
26951 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
26953 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
26954 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
26957 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
26958 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
26959 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
26960 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
26961 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
26962 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
26963 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
26964 their directory fetches over TLS).
26965 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
26966 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
26967 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
26968 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
26969 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
26970 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
26971 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
26972 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
26975 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
26976 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
26980 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
26981 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26982 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
26983 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
26984 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
26985 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
26986 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26989 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
26990 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
26991 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
26992 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
26993 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
26996 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
26997 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
26998 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
26999 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
27000 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
27001 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
27002 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
27003 their directory fetches over TLS).
27006 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
27007 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
27009 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
27010 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
27011 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
27012 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
27013 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
27014 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
27015 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
27016 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
27017 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
27018 hour of their uptime.
27021 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
27022 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
27023 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
27027 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
27028 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
27029 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
27030 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
27031 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
27032 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
27034 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
27035 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
27036 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
27038 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
27039 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
27043 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
27044 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
27045 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
27049 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
27050 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
27051 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
27054 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
27055 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
27056 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
27057 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
27058 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
27059 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
27060 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
27061 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
27062 about the option without breaking older ones.
27063 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
27064 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
27065 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
27066 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
27069 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
27070 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
27071 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
27072 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
27074 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
27075 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
27076 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
27079 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
27080 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
27082 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
27083 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
27084 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
27085 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
27086 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
27087 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
27088 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27089 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
27090 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
27091 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
27092 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
27095 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
27096 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27097 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
27098 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
27099 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
27100 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
27101 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27104 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
27105 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
27106 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
27107 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
27108 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
27109 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
27112 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
27113 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
27114 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
27115 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
27117 o Major features (performance):
27118 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
27119 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
27120 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
27121 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
27122 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
27123 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
27124 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
27126 o Minor features (performance):
27127 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
27128 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
27129 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
27130 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
27131 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
27135 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
27136 speeds up the build considerably.
27138 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
27139 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
27140 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27141 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
27142 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
27143 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
27144 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
27145 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27147 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
27148 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
27149 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
27151 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
27152 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
27153 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
27154 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
27156 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27157 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
27158 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
27159 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
27160 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
27161 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
27164 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
27165 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
27166 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
27168 o Directory authority changes:
27169 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
27170 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
27171 service directory authority) from the list.
27174 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
27175 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
27176 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
27177 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
27178 libraries in a security patch.
27179 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
27180 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
27181 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
27182 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
27184 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
27185 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
27186 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
27187 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
27188 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
27189 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
27190 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
27193 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
27194 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
27195 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
27196 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
27197 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
27198 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
27199 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
27200 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
27201 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
27202 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
27203 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
27204 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
27205 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
27207 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
27208 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
27209 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
27210 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
27211 control-spec.txt said they were.
27212 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
27213 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
27214 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
27215 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
27216 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27218 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27219 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
27220 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
27221 produce nicer HTML.
27222 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
27223 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
27224 iPhone SDK versions.
27225 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
27226 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
27227 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
27228 projects directory in svn.
27229 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
27230 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
27231 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
27232 high latency links.
27235 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
27236 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
27237 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
27239 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
27240 to the circuit build timeout.
27241 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
27242 arguments we do not recognize.
27243 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
27244 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
27245 open() without checking it.
27248 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
27249 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
27250 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
27251 several minor potential security bugs.
27254 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
27255 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
27256 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
27257 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
27258 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
27259 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
27260 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
27263 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
27264 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
27266 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
27267 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
27268 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
27269 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
27273 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
27274 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
27278 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
27279 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
27280 customized patches to run/build.
27283 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
27284 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
27285 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
27288 o Major bugfixes (performance):
27289 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
27290 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
27291 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
27292 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
27293 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
27294 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
27295 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
27298 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
27299 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
27300 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
27301 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
27302 libraries in a security patch.
27303 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
27304 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
27305 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
27306 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
27309 o Directory authority changes:
27310 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
27311 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
27312 service directory authority) from the list.
27315 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
27316 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
27319 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
27320 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
27321 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
27322 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
27323 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
27326 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
27327 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
27328 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
27332 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
27333 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
27334 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
27335 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
27336 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
27339 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
27340 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
27341 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
27345 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
27346 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
27347 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
27348 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
27349 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
27351 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
27352 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
27354 o Directory authority changes:
27355 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
27358 o Major features (performance):
27359 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
27360 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
27361 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
27362 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
27363 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
27364 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
27365 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
27366 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
27367 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
27368 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
27369 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
27370 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
27371 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
27373 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
27374 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
27375 but never per-conn write limits.
27376 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
27377 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
27378 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
27379 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
27381 o Major features (relay selection options):
27382 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
27383 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
27384 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
27385 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
27386 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
27387 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
27388 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
27390 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
27391 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
27393 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
27394 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
27395 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
27396 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
27397 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
27398 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
27399 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
27400 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
27401 the network changes.
27404 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
27405 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
27406 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27409 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
27410 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
27411 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
27412 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
27413 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
27414 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
27415 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
27416 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
27417 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
27418 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
27419 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
27420 generated while acting as a relay.
27421 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
27422 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
27423 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
27424 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
27425 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
27426 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
27428 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
27429 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
27430 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
27431 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
27432 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
27433 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
27436 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
27437 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
27438 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
27440 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
27441 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
27442 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
27444 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
27445 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
27447 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
27448 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
27449 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
27451 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
27452 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
27455 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27456 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
27457 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
27458 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
27459 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
27460 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
27461 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
27462 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
27463 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
27465 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
27468 o Removed features:
27469 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
27470 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
27471 hidden service usage.
27474 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
27475 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
27476 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
27477 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
27478 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
27480 o Directory authority changes:
27481 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
27485 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
27486 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
27487 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27490 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
27491 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
27492 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
27493 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
27494 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
27497 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
27498 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
27499 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
27500 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
27501 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
27502 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
27503 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
27506 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
27507 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
27508 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27509 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
27510 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
27511 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
27513 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
27514 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
27517 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
27518 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
27519 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
27520 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
27521 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
27522 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
27525 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
27526 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
27527 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
27529 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
27530 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
27531 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
27532 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
27533 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
27534 download consensus + microdescriptors".
27535 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
27536 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
27537 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
27538 hash algorithm in the future.
27539 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
27540 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
27541 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
27542 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
27543 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
27544 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
27545 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
27546 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
27547 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
27550 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
27551 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
27552 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
27553 won't work unless we say we are.
27556 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
27557 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
27558 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
27559 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
27560 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
27561 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
27562 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
27563 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
27564 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27565 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
27566 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
27567 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
27568 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
27569 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
27570 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
27571 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
27572 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
27573 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
27574 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
27575 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
27576 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
27577 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
27580 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
27581 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
27582 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
27583 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
27585 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
27586 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
27588 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
27589 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
27590 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
27591 in the Vidalia Settings window.
27594 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
27595 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
27596 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
27597 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
27598 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
27600 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
27601 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
27603 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
27604 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
27605 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
27608 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
27609 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
27610 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
27612 o New directory authorities:
27613 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
27615 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
27618 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
27619 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
27621 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
27622 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
27623 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27624 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
27625 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
27626 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
27627 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27628 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
27629 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
27630 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
27631 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
27632 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
27633 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
27634 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
27635 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
27636 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
27637 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
27639 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
27640 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
27641 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
27643 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
27644 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
27648 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
27649 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
27650 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
27651 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
27652 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
27655 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
27656 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
27659 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
27661 o Directory authorities:
27662 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
27666 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
27667 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
27668 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
27669 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
27670 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
27673 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
27674 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
27675 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
27676 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
27678 o New directory authorities:
27679 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
27682 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
27683 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
27684 SSL handshake issues.
27685 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
27686 during the TLS handshake.
27687 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
27688 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
27689 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
27690 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
27691 none of which are very big.
27694 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
27696 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
27697 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27698 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
27699 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
27700 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27701 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
27702 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
27703 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
27706 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27707 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
27708 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
27709 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
27710 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
27713 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
27714 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27717 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
27718 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
27721 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
27722 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
27723 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27726 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
27727 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
27728 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
27729 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
27730 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
27731 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
27734 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
27735 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
27736 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
27737 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
27738 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
27739 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
27740 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
27741 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
27742 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
27743 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
27744 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
27745 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
27746 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
27747 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
27748 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
27749 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
27750 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
27751 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
27754 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
27755 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
27759 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
27760 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
27761 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27762 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
27763 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
27764 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
27765 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27766 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
27767 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
27768 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
27769 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27770 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
27771 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
27772 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
27773 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
27774 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
27775 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
27776 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
27777 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
27778 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
27779 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
27781 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
27782 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
27783 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
27784 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27785 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
27786 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
27788 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
27789 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
27790 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
27793 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
27794 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
27795 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
27796 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
27797 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
27798 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
27801 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
27802 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
27803 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
27804 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
27805 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
27808 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
27809 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
27810 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
27813 o New directory authorities:
27814 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
27818 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
27819 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
27820 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
27821 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
27822 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
27825 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
27826 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
27827 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
27828 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
27829 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
27832 o New options for gathering stats safely:
27833 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
27834 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
27835 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
27836 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
27837 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
27838 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
27839 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
27840 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
27841 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
27843 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
27844 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
27845 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
27846 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
27848 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
27849 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
27850 their extra-info documents.
27853 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
27854 source files Tor was built with.
27855 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
27856 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
27857 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
27858 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
27859 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
27860 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
27862 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
27863 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
27864 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
27865 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
27866 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
27868 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
27869 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
27872 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
27873 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
27874 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
27875 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
27876 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
27878 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
27879 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
27881 o Deprecated and removed features:
27882 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
27883 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
27884 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
27885 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
27886 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
27887 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
27888 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
27889 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
27891 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
27892 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
27893 via application-level web tricks.
27895 o Packaging changes:
27896 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
27897 installer bundles. See
27898 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
27899 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
27900 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
27901 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
27902 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
27903 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
27904 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
27905 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
27906 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
27907 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
27908 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
27909 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
27912 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
27913 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
27914 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
27917 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
27918 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
27919 part of patch provided by "optimist".
27922 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
27923 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
27924 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
27925 and confuse fewer users.
27928 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
27929 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
27930 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
27931 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
27932 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
27933 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
27934 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
27937 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
27938 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
27939 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
27940 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
27941 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
27942 other features and bug fixes.
27945 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
27948 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
27949 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
27950 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
27951 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
27952 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
27955 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
27956 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
27957 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
27958 failure message (oops).
27961 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
27962 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
27963 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
27964 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
27968 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
27969 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
27970 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
27971 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
27972 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
27973 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
27974 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27975 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
27976 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
27977 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
27978 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
27979 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
27980 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
27981 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
27982 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
27985 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
27986 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
27987 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
27988 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
27989 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
27990 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
27991 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
27992 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
27993 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
27994 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
27995 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
27996 Workaround for bug 1024.
27997 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
28001 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
28002 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
28003 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
28006 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
28008 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
28009 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
28010 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
28011 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
28012 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
28015 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
28016 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
28017 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
28018 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
28019 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
28020 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
28021 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
28022 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
28023 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
28024 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
28027 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
28028 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
28029 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
28030 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
28031 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
28032 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
28033 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
28034 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
28037 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
28038 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
28039 a bunch of minor bugs.
28042 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
28043 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
28044 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
28046 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
28047 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
28048 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
28049 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
28051 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
28055 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
28056 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
28057 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
28059 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
28060 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
28062 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
28063 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
28065 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
28066 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
28067 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
28068 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
28069 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
28070 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
28071 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
28072 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
28074 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
28075 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
28076 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
28078 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
28079 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
28080 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
28081 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
28082 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
28086 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
28087 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
28088 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
28089 of more minor bugs.
28091 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
28092 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
28093 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
28094 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
28096 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
28097 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
28098 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
28099 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
28100 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
28101 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
28102 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
28103 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
28104 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
28105 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
28106 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
28107 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28108 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
28109 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
28110 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
28111 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
28112 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
28114 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
28115 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
28116 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
28117 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28119 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
28120 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
28121 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
28124 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
28125 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
28126 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
28127 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
28128 addresses to fall out of the directory.
28131 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
28132 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
28133 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
28134 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
28136 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
28137 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
28138 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
28139 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
28140 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
28141 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
28142 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
28143 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
28144 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
28145 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
28146 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
28147 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
28148 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
28149 patch by Sebastian.
28150 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
28151 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
28154 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
28155 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
28156 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
28157 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
28158 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
28159 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
28161 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
28162 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
28163 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
28164 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
28165 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
28167 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
28170 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
28171 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
28173 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
28174 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
28175 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28176 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28177 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
28178 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
28180 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
28181 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28182 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
28183 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
28184 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
28185 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
28186 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
28187 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
28188 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
28189 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
28190 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
28191 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
28195 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
28196 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
28197 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
28200 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
28201 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
28202 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28204 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
28205 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
28206 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
28207 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
28208 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
28209 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
28210 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
28211 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
28212 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
28213 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
28214 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
28215 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
28216 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
28217 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
28218 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
28219 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
28220 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
28221 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
28222 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
28223 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
28224 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
28225 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
28226 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
28227 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
28228 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
28229 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
28231 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
28232 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
28233 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
28234 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
28235 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
28236 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
28237 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
28238 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
28239 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
28240 of 0. Suggested by lark.
28242 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
28243 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
28244 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
28245 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
28246 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
28249 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
28251 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
28252 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
28253 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
28254 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
28257 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
28258 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
28259 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
28260 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
28261 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
28263 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
28264 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
28265 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
28266 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
28269 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
28270 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
28271 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
28272 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
28273 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
28274 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
28275 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
28276 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
28279 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
28280 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
28281 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
28282 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
28285 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
28286 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
28287 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
28288 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
28289 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
28290 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
28293 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
28294 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
28295 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
28296 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
28297 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
28298 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
28301 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
28302 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
28303 reported by Matt Edman.
28304 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
28306 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
28307 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
28308 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
28309 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
28311 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
28312 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
28313 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
28314 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28315 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
28316 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
28317 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
28318 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
28319 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
28320 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
28321 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
28322 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
28323 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
28324 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
28325 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
28326 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
28327 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
28328 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
28329 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28332 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
28333 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
28334 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
28335 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
28338 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
28339 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
28340 the letter of C99's alias rules.
28343 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
28344 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
28345 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
28346 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
28348 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
28349 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
28350 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
28353 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
28354 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
28357 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
28358 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
28359 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
28360 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
28361 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
28362 reported by "wood".
28363 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
28364 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
28365 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
28366 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
28367 identify a connection.
28368 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
28369 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
28370 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
28371 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
28372 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
28373 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
28374 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
28375 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
28376 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
28377 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
28379 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
28380 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
28381 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
28382 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
28383 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
28384 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
28385 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
28388 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
28389 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
28391 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
28392 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
28393 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
28394 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
28395 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
28396 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
28397 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28398 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
28400 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
28401 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
28402 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
28403 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
28404 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
28405 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
28406 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
28407 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
28408 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
28409 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
28410 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
28411 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
28412 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
28413 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
28414 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
28415 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
28416 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
28417 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
28418 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
28419 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
28420 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
28421 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
28422 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
28423 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
28424 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
28425 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
28426 840. Patch from rovv.
28427 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
28428 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
28429 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
28431 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
28432 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
28433 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
28434 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
28435 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
28436 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
28437 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
28439 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
28440 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
28441 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
28444 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
28445 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
28447 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
28448 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
28449 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
28450 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
28451 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
28452 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
28453 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
28454 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
28455 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
28457 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
28459 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
28460 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
28464 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
28465 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
28466 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
28467 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
28468 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
28469 have had some time to upgrade.)
28472 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
28473 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
28476 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
28477 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
28478 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
28479 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
28480 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
28483 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
28484 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
28486 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
28487 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
28488 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
28489 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
28490 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
28491 entirely. Patch from coderman.
28494 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
28495 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
28496 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
28497 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
28498 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
28499 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28500 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
28504 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
28505 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
28506 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
28507 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
28508 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
28509 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
28510 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
28513 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
28514 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
28515 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
28516 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
28517 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
28519 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
28520 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
28521 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
28522 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
28523 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
28524 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
28525 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
28526 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
28527 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
28528 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
28532 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
28533 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
28534 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
28536 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
28537 without support for deprecated functions.
28538 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
28540 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
28541 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
28542 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
28543 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
28544 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
28545 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
28546 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
28547 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
28548 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
28549 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
28550 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
28551 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
28552 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
28553 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
28554 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
28555 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
28556 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
28557 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
28558 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
28559 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
28560 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
28561 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
28562 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
28564 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
28565 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
28566 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
28567 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
28568 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
28569 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
28571 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
28572 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
28573 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
28574 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
28575 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
28577 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
28578 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
28579 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
28581 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
28582 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
28585 o Deprecated and removed features:
28586 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
28587 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
28588 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
28591 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28592 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
28593 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
28594 with log.h on Android.
28595 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
28596 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
28599 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
28600 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
28602 o New directory authorities:
28603 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
28607 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
28608 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
28609 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
28610 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
28611 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
28612 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28615 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
28616 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
28617 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
28618 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
28619 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
28620 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
28621 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
28622 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
28623 reported by "wood".
28624 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
28625 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
28626 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
28627 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
28630 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
28631 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
28633 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
28634 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
28635 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
28636 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
28637 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
28638 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
28639 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
28640 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
28641 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
28642 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
28643 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
28644 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
28645 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
28646 Implements proposal 148.
28647 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
28648 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
28649 system to do it for us.
28650 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
28651 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
28652 this fix will be slightly helpful.
28653 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
28654 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
28655 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
28656 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
28657 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
28658 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
28659 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
28660 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
28661 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
28664 o Minor features (controller):
28665 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
28666 been fetched and validated.
28667 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
28668 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
28669 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
28670 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
28671 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
28672 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
28675 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
28676 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
28677 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
28678 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
28679 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
28681 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
28682 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
28683 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
28684 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
28685 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
28686 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
28687 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
28688 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
28689 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
28691 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
28692 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
28693 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
28694 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
28695 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
28696 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
28697 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
28698 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
28700 o Deprecated and removed features:
28701 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
28703 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
28704 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
28705 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
28707 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28708 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
28709 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
28711 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
28712 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
28713 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
28714 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
28715 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
28716 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
28719 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
28720 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
28721 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
28722 fixes a variety of other issues.
28725 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
28726 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
28727 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
28728 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
28731 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
28732 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
28733 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
28734 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
28737 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
28738 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28739 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
28743 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
28745 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
28746 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
28747 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
28748 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
28749 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
28750 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
28751 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
28753 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
28754 rest, and don't automatically fail.
28755 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
28756 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28757 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
28758 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
28760 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
28761 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
28762 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
28763 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
28764 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
28765 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
28766 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
28767 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
28768 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
28769 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
28771 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
28775 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
28776 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
28777 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
28779 o Minor features (controller):
28780 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
28784 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
28785 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
28786 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
28787 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
28788 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
28789 variety of other issues.
28792 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
28793 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
28794 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
28795 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
28796 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
28797 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
28798 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
28799 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
28800 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
28801 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
28802 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
28803 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
28806 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
28807 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28809 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
28810 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
28811 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
28812 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
28813 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
28814 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
28815 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28816 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
28817 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
28818 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
28819 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
28820 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
28821 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
28822 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
28823 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
28827 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
28828 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
28829 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
28830 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
28831 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
28832 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
28833 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
28834 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
28835 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
28836 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
28837 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
28838 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
28839 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
28840 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
28841 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
28842 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
28843 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
28844 list. It has been gone for many months.
28845 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
28846 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
28847 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
28850 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
28851 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
28852 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
28855 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
28856 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
28857 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
28858 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
28859 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
28860 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
28861 variety of other issues.
28864 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
28865 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
28866 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
28867 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
28868 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
28869 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
28870 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
28871 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
28872 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
28873 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
28874 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
28875 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
28876 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
28877 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
28880 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
28881 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
28882 Suggested by Lucky Green.
28883 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
28884 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
28885 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
28886 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
28887 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
28888 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
28890 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
28891 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
28893 o Hidden service performance improvements:
28894 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
28895 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
28896 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
28897 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
28898 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
28899 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
28900 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
28901 faster after restart.
28904 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
28905 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
28906 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
28907 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
28908 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
28909 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
28910 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
28911 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
28912 840. Patch from rovv.
28913 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
28914 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
28915 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
28916 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
28917 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
28918 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
28919 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
28920 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
28921 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
28923 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
28924 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
28925 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
28926 have already been marked for close.
28927 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
28928 introduction points.
28929 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
28930 memory performance during directory parsing.
28931 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
28932 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
28933 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
28934 because of a pending download.
28937 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
28938 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
28939 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
28940 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
28943 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
28944 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
28945 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
28946 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
28947 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
28948 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
28949 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
28950 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
28951 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
28952 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
28953 lookups more reliable.
28954 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
28955 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
28956 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
28957 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
28958 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
28959 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
28960 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
28963 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
28964 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
28965 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28966 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
28967 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
28968 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
28969 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
28970 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
28971 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
28972 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
28973 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
28975 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
28976 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
28977 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
28978 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
28979 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
28980 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28981 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
28982 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
28983 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28986 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
28987 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
28988 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
28989 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
28990 locked down these days.
28991 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
28992 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
28993 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
28994 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
28995 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
28997 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
28998 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
28999 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
29000 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
29001 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
29002 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
29003 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
29004 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
29005 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
29006 people find host:port too confusing.
29007 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
29008 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
29009 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
29012 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
29014 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
29015 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
29016 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
29017 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
29018 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
29020 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
29021 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
29022 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
29023 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
29024 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
29025 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
29026 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
29027 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
29028 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
29029 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
29030 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
29031 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
29033 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
29034 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
29035 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
29036 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
29037 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
29038 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
29039 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
29040 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
29041 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
29043 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
29044 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
29045 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
29046 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
29047 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
29048 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
29049 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
29050 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
29051 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
29052 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
29053 bug 820, reported by seeess.
29054 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
29055 list. It has been gone for many months.
29057 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29058 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
29059 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
29060 actual mistakes we're making here.
29061 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
29062 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
29063 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
29064 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
29067 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
29068 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
29069 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
29070 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
29073 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
29074 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
29075 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
29076 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
29077 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
29078 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
29080 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
29081 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
29082 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
29083 pointed out by rovv.
29086 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
29087 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29088 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
29089 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
29090 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
29091 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
29092 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
29093 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
29094 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
29095 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29096 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
29097 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
29098 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
29099 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
29100 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
29101 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
29102 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
29103 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
29104 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
29105 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
29106 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
29109 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
29110 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
29111 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
29112 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
29113 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
29114 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
29115 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
29118 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
29120 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
29121 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
29122 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
29123 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
29124 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
29125 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
29126 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
29128 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
29129 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
29130 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
29131 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
29132 known descriptor before building circuits.
29134 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
29135 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
29136 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
29137 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
29138 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
29139 identify a connection.
29140 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
29141 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
29142 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
29144 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
29145 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
29146 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
29147 pointed out by rovv.
29150 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
29151 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29152 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
29153 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
29154 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
29155 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
29156 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
29157 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
29158 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
29159 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
29160 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
29161 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
29162 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
29163 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
29164 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29167 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
29168 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
29169 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
29170 answer sections match.
29171 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
29172 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
29175 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
29176 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
29179 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
29180 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
29181 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
29183 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
29184 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
29185 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
29188 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
29189 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
29190 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
29191 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
29194 o Removed features:
29195 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
29196 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
29199 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
29200 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
29201 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
29202 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
29203 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
29204 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
29206 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
29207 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
29208 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
29211 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
29212 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
29213 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
29214 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
29215 be sent using an "early" cell.
29218 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
29219 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
29220 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
29221 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
29222 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
29223 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
29224 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
29227 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
29228 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
29229 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
29230 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
29231 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
29232 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
29233 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
29234 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
29235 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
29236 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
29237 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
29238 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
29239 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
29240 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
29241 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
29242 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
29245 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
29246 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
29247 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
29248 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
29249 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
29250 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
29251 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
29252 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
29253 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
29255 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
29256 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
29257 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
29258 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
29259 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
29262 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
29263 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
29264 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
29265 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
29267 o Removed features:
29268 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
29269 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
29273 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
29275 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
29276 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
29277 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
29280 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
29281 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
29282 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
29285 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
29286 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
29287 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
29288 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
29289 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29290 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
29291 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
29292 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
29293 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29294 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
29295 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
29296 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
29297 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
29298 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
29299 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
29300 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
29301 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
29302 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
29303 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
29304 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
29305 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
29306 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
29307 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
29310 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
29311 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
29313 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
29314 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
29315 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
29316 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
29317 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
29318 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
29319 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
29321 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
29322 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
29323 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
29324 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
29325 found by Geoff Goodell.
29328 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
29329 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
29330 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
29331 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
29332 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
29333 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
29336 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
29337 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
29338 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
29341 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
29342 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
29343 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
29344 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
29345 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29346 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
29347 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
29348 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
29349 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29350 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
29351 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
29352 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
29353 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
29354 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
29357 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
29358 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
29359 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
29361 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
29362 fingerprints with or without space.
29363 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
29364 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
29365 partway through and wants to catch up.
29366 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
29367 state to start out in.
29370 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
29371 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
29372 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
29373 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
29374 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
29377 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
29378 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
29379 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
29380 some of the connection attempts fail.
29381 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
29382 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
29383 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
29384 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
29385 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
29386 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
29388 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
29389 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
29390 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
29393 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
29394 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
29395 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
29396 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
29397 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
29398 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
29399 and adds a variety of smaller features.
29402 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
29403 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
29404 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
29405 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
29407 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
29408 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
29409 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
29410 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
29412 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
29413 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
29414 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
29415 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
29416 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
29417 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
29418 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
29421 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
29422 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
29423 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
29424 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
29425 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
29427 o Memory fixes and improvements:
29428 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
29429 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
29430 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
29431 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
29432 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
29433 on a typical directory cache.
29434 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
29435 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
29436 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
29437 and may reduce fragmentation.
29438 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
29439 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
29440 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
29442 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
29443 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
29444 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
29446 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
29447 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
29451 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
29452 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
29453 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
29454 done that for a long time.
29455 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
29456 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
29457 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
29458 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
29461 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
29462 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
29463 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
29464 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
29465 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
29466 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
29468 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
29469 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
29470 output to messages of warning and error severity.
29471 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
29472 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
29473 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
29474 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
29475 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
29476 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
29477 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
29478 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
29479 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
29480 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
29481 directory requests we should expect to see.
29482 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
29484 - Lots of new unit tests.
29485 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
29486 two parallel lists in lockstep.
29489 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
29490 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
29491 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
29494 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
29495 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
29496 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
29497 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
29498 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
29499 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
29500 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
29503 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
29504 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
29505 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
29509 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
29510 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
29511 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
29514 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
29515 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
29516 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
29518 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
29519 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
29521 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
29522 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
29523 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
29524 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
29525 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29526 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
29527 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
29529 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
29530 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
29531 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
29532 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
29533 - Fix compile on Windows.
29536 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
29537 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
29538 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
29539 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
29540 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
29541 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
29542 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
29545 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
29546 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
29549 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
29550 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
29551 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
29552 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
29554 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
29555 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
29556 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
29559 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
29560 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
29561 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
29562 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
29566 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
29567 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
29568 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
29569 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
29571 o Major security fixes:
29572 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
29573 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
29574 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
29575 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
29576 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
29579 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
29580 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29583 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
29584 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
29587 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
29588 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
29591 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
29592 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
29593 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
29596 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
29597 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29600 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
29601 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
29602 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
29603 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
29604 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
29606 o New directory authorities:
29607 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
29608 it has been down for months.
29609 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
29613 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
29614 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
29616 o Minor features (security):
29617 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
29618 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
29619 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
29622 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
29623 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
29624 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
29625 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
29626 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
29627 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
29628 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
29629 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
29630 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29632 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
29633 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
29634 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29635 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
29636 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
29637 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
29638 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29639 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
29640 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
29642 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
29643 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
29644 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
29645 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
29646 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
29647 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
29648 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
29649 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
29650 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
29651 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
29652 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29653 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
29654 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
29655 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
29656 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
29657 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
29658 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
29659 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
29660 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
29663 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
29664 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
29665 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
29666 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
29669 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
29670 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
29671 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
29672 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
29675 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
29676 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
29677 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
29678 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
29679 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
29682 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
29683 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
29684 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
29685 certain censored countries by default again.
29688 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
29689 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
29690 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
29691 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
29692 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
29693 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
29694 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
29695 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
29697 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
29698 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
29699 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
29700 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
29701 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
29702 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
29703 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
29704 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
29705 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
29706 a directory. Fix from lodger.
29708 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29709 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
29710 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
29711 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
29712 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
29713 RelayBandwidth* values.
29714 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
29715 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
29716 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
29717 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
29718 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
29719 get_interface_address6().
29720 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
29721 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
29722 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
29724 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
29725 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
29726 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
29727 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29728 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
29729 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
29730 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29731 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
29732 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
29733 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29736 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
29737 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
29738 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
29741 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
29742 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
29743 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
29744 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
29745 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
29748 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
29749 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
29750 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
29751 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
29752 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
29753 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
29754 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
29755 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
29756 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
29759 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
29760 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
29761 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
29762 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
29765 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
29766 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
29767 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
29768 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
29769 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
29770 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
29771 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
29774 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
29775 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
29776 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
29777 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
29778 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
29779 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
29780 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
29782 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
29783 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
29784 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
29785 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
29786 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
29789 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
29790 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
29791 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
29792 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
29793 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
29794 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
29795 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29796 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
29797 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
29798 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
29799 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
29800 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
29801 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
29802 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
29803 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
29804 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29805 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
29806 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29807 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29808 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
29809 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
29810 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
29811 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
29812 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
29813 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
29814 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
29816 o Minor features (performance):
29817 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
29819 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
29820 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
29821 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
29822 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
29823 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
29824 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
29825 non-system include paths.
29826 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
29827 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
29830 o Minor features (other):
29831 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
29833 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
29834 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
29835 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
29838 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
29839 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
29840 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
29841 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
29843 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
29844 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
29845 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
29846 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
29847 Should fix bug 537.
29848 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
29849 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
29850 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29851 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
29852 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29854 o Minor bugfixes (other):
29855 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
29856 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
29857 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
29858 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
29859 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
29860 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
29861 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
29862 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
29863 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
29864 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
29865 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
29866 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
29867 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
29868 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
29869 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29870 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
29871 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
29872 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
29873 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
29874 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
29875 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
29876 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
29877 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
29878 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
29881 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29882 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
29883 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
29887 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
29888 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
29889 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
29890 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
29891 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
29894 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
29895 Tor's x509 certificates.
29898 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
29899 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
29900 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29901 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
29902 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
29903 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29905 o Minor features (security):
29906 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
29907 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
29909 o Minor features (directory authority):
29910 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
29911 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
29912 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
29913 bandwidthburst values.
29915 o Minor features (controller):
29916 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
29917 processes from running us out of memory.
29919 o Minor features (misc):
29920 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
29921 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
29922 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
29923 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
29925 o Deprecated features (controller):
29926 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
29927 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
29928 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
29931 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
29932 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
29934 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
29935 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
29936 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29937 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
29938 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
29939 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29940 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
29941 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
29943 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
29944 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29945 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
29946 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29947 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
29948 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
29949 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
29950 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
29952 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
29953 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
29954 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
29955 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
29956 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29957 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
29958 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29959 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
29960 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29961 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
29962 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
29963 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29965 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29966 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
29968 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
29969 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
29970 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
29971 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
29972 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
29973 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
29976 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
29977 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
29978 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
29979 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
29980 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
29982 o New directory authorities:
29983 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
29987 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
29988 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
29989 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
29990 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
29991 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
29992 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
29993 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
29994 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
29998 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
29999 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
30000 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
30001 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
30002 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
30003 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
30004 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
30005 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
30006 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
30007 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
30010 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
30011 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
30012 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
30013 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
30017 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
30018 the request isn't encrypted.
30019 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
30020 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
30021 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
30022 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
30023 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
30026 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
30027 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
30030 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
30033 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
30034 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
30035 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
30037 o New directory authorities:
30038 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
30041 o Major performance improvements:
30042 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
30043 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
30044 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
30045 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
30046 memory fragmentation.
30049 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
30050 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
30051 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
30052 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
30053 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
30054 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
30055 bodies when they receive them.
30056 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
30057 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
30058 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
30060 o Minor performance improvements:
30061 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
30062 of them were actually distinct.
30063 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
30064 interested in a given message.
30067 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
30068 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
30069 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
30070 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
30071 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
30072 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
30073 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
30074 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
30075 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
30076 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
30077 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
30079 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
30080 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
30081 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
30082 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
30083 this country" and "1 person from this country".
30084 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
30085 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
30086 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
30087 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
30088 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
30090 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
30091 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
30092 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
30094 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
30095 but client versions are not.
30096 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
30097 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
30099 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
30100 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
30101 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
30102 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
30103 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
30105 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
30106 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
30107 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
30110 o Minor features (controller):
30111 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
30112 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
30113 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
30114 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
30116 o Minor features (directory authorities):
30117 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
30118 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
30119 running a test network on a single host.
30120 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
30121 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
30123 o Minor features (bridges):
30124 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
30125 unencrypted connections.
30127 o Minor features (other):
30128 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
30129 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
30130 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
30131 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
30134 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
30135 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
30136 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
30137 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
30140 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
30141 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
30142 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
30143 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
30144 on network address.
30147 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
30148 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
30149 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
30150 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
30151 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
30152 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
30153 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
30154 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
30155 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
30156 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
30157 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
30158 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
30161 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
30162 rebuild our server descriptor.
30163 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
30164 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
30165 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
30166 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
30167 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
30168 nonstandard integer types.
30169 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
30170 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
30171 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
30172 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
30173 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
30175 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
30176 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
30177 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
30178 when they receive them.
30179 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
30180 This includes some 64-bit systems.
30181 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
30182 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
30183 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
30184 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
30185 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
30186 router_get_by_hexdigest().
30187 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
30188 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
30192 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
30193 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
30194 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
30197 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
30198 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
30199 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
30200 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
30201 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
30202 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
30203 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
30204 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30207 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
30208 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
30209 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
30210 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
30212 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
30213 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
30216 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
30217 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
30220 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
30222 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
30223 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
30225 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
30226 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
30227 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
30228 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30229 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
30230 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
30231 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
30232 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
30233 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
30234 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
30238 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
30239 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
30240 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
30243 - Make the unit tests build again.
30244 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
30245 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
30246 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
30247 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
30248 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
30249 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30250 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
30251 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
30252 the next one as a duplicate.
30255 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
30256 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
30257 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
30258 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
30261 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
30262 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
30263 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
30266 o New directory authorities:
30267 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
30271 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
30272 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
30273 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
30274 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
30275 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
30276 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
30277 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
30279 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
30280 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
30282 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
30283 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
30284 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
30285 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
30286 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
30287 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
30289 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
30290 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
30291 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
30292 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
30293 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
30294 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30297 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
30298 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
30299 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
30300 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
30301 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
30302 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
30303 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
30304 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
30305 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
30306 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
30307 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
30308 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
30309 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
30310 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
30311 where Tor is blocked.
30312 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
30313 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
30314 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
30315 to a file periodically.
30316 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
30317 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
30318 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
30322 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
30323 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
30324 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
30325 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
30326 in the relevant networkstatus document.
30327 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
30328 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
30329 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
30330 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
30331 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
30332 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
30333 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
30334 by Karsten Loesing.
30335 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
30336 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
30337 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
30338 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
30339 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
30340 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30341 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
30342 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
30343 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
30344 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30345 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
30346 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
30347 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
30348 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30349 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
30350 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
30351 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
30352 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
30353 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
30354 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30355 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30356 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
30357 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30358 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
30359 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
30360 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
30361 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
30362 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30365 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
30366 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
30367 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
30368 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
30369 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
30370 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
30371 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
30372 even if your DirPort isn't on.
30373 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
30374 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
30375 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
30377 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
30378 multiple controller passwords.
30379 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
30380 router based on the router's purpose.
30381 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
30382 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
30383 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
30384 the approved-routers file.
30387 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
30388 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
30389 well as a few minor bugs.
30392 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
30393 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
30394 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
30396 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
30397 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
30398 rebuild our server descriptor.
30400 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
30401 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
30402 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
30403 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
30404 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
30405 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
30406 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
30407 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
30408 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
30409 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
30411 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
30412 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
30413 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
30414 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
30415 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
30416 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
30417 then be flexible about families.
30420 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
30421 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
30422 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
30426 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
30427 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
30428 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
30429 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
30430 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
30433 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
30434 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
30435 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
30436 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
30437 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30440 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
30441 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
30443 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
30444 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
30445 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
30446 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
30447 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
30448 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
30449 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
30451 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
30452 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
30453 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
30454 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
30457 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
30458 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
30461 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
30462 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
30463 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30466 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
30467 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
30468 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
30469 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
30470 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
30471 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
30472 addresses many more minor issues.
30474 o New directory authorities:
30475 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
30478 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
30479 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
30480 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
30481 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
30483 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
30484 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
30485 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
30486 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
30487 and are reaching it.
30488 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
30489 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
30490 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
30491 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
30492 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
30493 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
30496 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
30497 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
30499 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
30500 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
30501 no longer work for clients.
30502 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
30503 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
30505 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
30506 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
30507 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
30508 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
30509 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
30510 enough directory information to build a circuit.
30511 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
30512 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
30513 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
30514 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
30515 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
30516 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
30518 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
30519 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
30520 requests for all of them.
30521 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
30523 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
30524 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
30525 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
30527 o New requirements:
30528 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
30529 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
30533 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
30534 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
30535 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
30536 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
30537 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
30538 networkstatuses that we already have.
30539 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
30540 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
30541 we start knowing some directory caches.
30542 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
30543 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
30544 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
30545 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
30546 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
30547 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
30548 Good in combination with --hash-password.
30549 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
30550 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
30552 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
30553 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
30554 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
30556 o Minor features (bridges):
30557 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
30558 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
30559 back to trying the bridge directly.
30560 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
30561 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
30563 o Minor features (controller):
30564 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
30565 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
30566 report the value as a "minimum skew."
30569 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
30570 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
30574 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
30575 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
30576 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
30577 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
30578 reported by tup and ioerror.
30579 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
30580 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
30582 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
30583 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
30585 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
30586 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
30587 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
30589 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
30590 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30591 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
30592 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30593 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
30594 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30595 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
30597 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
30598 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
30599 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30601 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
30602 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
30603 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
30604 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
30605 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
30608 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
30609 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
30610 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
30611 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
30612 lists for a few hours each day.
30614 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30615 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
30616 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
30617 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
30618 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
30619 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
30620 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
30621 rend_process_relay_cell().
30623 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
30624 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
30625 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
30626 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
30627 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
30628 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
30629 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
30630 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
30632 o Major bugfixes (other):
30633 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
30634 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
30635 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
30636 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
30637 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
30638 circuit cannibalization).
30639 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
30640 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
30641 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
30642 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
30643 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
30644 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
30647 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
30648 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
30650 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
30651 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
30652 absent. Resolves bug 467.
30653 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
30654 a way to trigger this remotely.)
30655 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
30656 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
30657 were reporting the dir port.)
30658 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
30659 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
30660 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
30661 the future. Fixes bug 434.
30662 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
30664 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
30665 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
30666 the onion key from getting rotated.
30667 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
30668 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
30669 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
30670 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
30671 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
30672 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
30673 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
30674 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
30675 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
30678 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
30679 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
30680 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
30681 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
30682 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
30683 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
30685 o Major features (directory system):
30686 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
30687 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
30688 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
30689 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
30690 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
30691 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
30692 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
30693 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
30694 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
30695 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
30696 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
30697 Partially implements proposal 122.
30698 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
30699 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
30702 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
30703 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
30704 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
30705 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
30707 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
30708 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
30709 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
30710 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
30711 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
30712 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30713 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
30714 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
30715 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30717 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
30718 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
30720 - Allow certificates to include an address.
30721 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
30722 and download operations.
30723 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
30724 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
30725 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
30726 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
30727 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
30728 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
30730 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
30731 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
30734 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
30735 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
30736 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
30737 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
30739 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
30740 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
30741 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
30743 o Minor features (performance):
30744 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
30745 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
30746 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
30747 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
30748 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
30749 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
30750 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
30753 o Minor features (compilation):
30754 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
30755 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
30757 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
30758 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
30759 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
30760 stick around indefinitely.
30761 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
30763 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
30764 v3 directory authority.
30765 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
30766 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
30768 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
30769 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
30770 "moria on moria:9031."
30771 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
30772 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
30773 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
30774 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
30775 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
30776 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
30777 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
30778 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
30780 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
30781 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
30782 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
30783 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
30784 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
30785 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
30786 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
30787 downloads than for other types.
30789 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
30790 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
30792 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
30793 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
30794 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30796 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30797 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
30798 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30799 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
30800 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
30801 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
30802 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
30803 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
30805 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
30806 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
30807 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
30808 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
30809 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30810 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
30811 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
30812 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30813 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
30814 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
30815 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
30817 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
30818 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
30821 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30822 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
30823 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
30824 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
30825 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
30826 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
30827 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
30828 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
30829 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
30830 so that they all take the same named flags.
30833 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
30834 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
30835 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
30838 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
30839 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
30840 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
30841 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
30842 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
30843 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
30845 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
30846 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
30847 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
30848 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
30849 annotations along with descriptors.
30850 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
30851 source, and its purpose.
30852 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
30854 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
30855 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
30856 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
30857 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
30860 o Major features (directory authorities):
30861 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
30863 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
30864 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
30865 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
30866 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
30867 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
30868 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
30870 o Major features (v3 directory system):
30871 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
30872 and download the descriptors listed in them.
30873 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
30874 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
30875 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
30877 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30878 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
30879 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
30880 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
30883 o Major bugfixes (performance):
30884 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
30885 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
30886 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
30887 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
30889 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
30890 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
30891 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
30892 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
30893 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
30894 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
30896 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
30897 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
30899 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
30900 certificate is requested.
30901 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
30902 certificate requests.
30904 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
30905 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
30906 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
30907 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
30910 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30911 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
30912 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
30913 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30915 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
30916 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
30918 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
30919 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
30920 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30921 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
30922 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
30923 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
30924 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
30925 downloads more sensible.
30926 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
30927 another when serving certificates.
30929 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
30930 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
30931 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
30932 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
30934 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
30935 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30936 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
30938 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
30939 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30941 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
30942 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
30943 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
30944 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
30945 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30947 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
30948 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
30949 WARN-severity events.
30950 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
30951 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
30952 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
30954 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
30955 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
30956 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
30958 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
30959 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
30960 circuit cannibalization).
30962 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30963 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
30964 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
30965 new module, networkstatus.c.
30966 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
30967 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
30968 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
30969 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
30970 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
30971 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
30972 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
30973 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
30974 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
30976 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
30978 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
30979 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30982 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
30983 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
30984 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
30985 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
30987 o New directory authorities:
30988 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
30989 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
30991 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30992 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
30993 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30995 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
30996 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
30997 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
30998 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
30999 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
31000 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
31001 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
31002 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
31003 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
31004 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
31005 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31007 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
31008 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
31009 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
31010 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
31011 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
31012 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
31013 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
31014 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
31015 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
31017 o Minor features (security):
31018 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
31019 address maps to an internal address space.
31020 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
31021 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
31023 o Minor features (guard nodes):
31024 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
31025 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
31026 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
31027 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
31029 o Minor features (speed):
31030 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
31031 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
31032 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
31033 on big-endian hosts.)
31035 o Minor features (controller):
31036 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
31037 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
31038 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
31039 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
31042 o Removed features:
31043 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
31044 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
31045 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
31046 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
31047 implementation of proposal 104.
31048 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
31049 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
31050 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
31051 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
31052 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
31053 patch from Karsten Loesing.
31054 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
31055 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
31058 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
31059 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
31060 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31061 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
31062 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31063 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
31064 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31065 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
31066 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
31067 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31068 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
31069 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
31070 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
31071 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31072 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
31073 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
31074 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
31075 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31076 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
31077 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
31079 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31080 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
31081 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
31083 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
31084 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
31085 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
31086 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
31089 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
31090 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
31091 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
31092 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
31093 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
31096 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
31097 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
31100 o Major bugfixes (security):
31101 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
31102 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
31103 become more of a headache than it's worth.
31105 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
31106 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
31107 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
31109 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
31110 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
31111 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
31112 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
31113 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
31114 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
31116 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
31117 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
31118 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
31119 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
31120 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
31122 o Minor features (controller):
31123 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
31124 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
31125 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
31126 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
31128 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
31129 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
31130 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
31131 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
31132 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
31133 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
31134 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
31135 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
31137 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
31138 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
31139 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
31140 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
31141 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
31142 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
31143 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
31144 if we ran off the end of the list.
31145 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
31146 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
31147 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
31148 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
31149 every time we change any piece of our config.
31150 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
31151 encourage people using them to stop.
31152 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
31154 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
31155 servers to choose a circuit.
31156 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
31157 unparseable piece of it.
31160 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
31161 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
31162 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
31163 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
31166 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
31167 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
31168 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
31169 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
31170 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
31172 o New directory authorities:
31173 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
31176 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
31177 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
31178 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
31179 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
31181 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
31182 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
31183 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
31185 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
31186 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
31187 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
31188 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
31189 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
31190 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
31192 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
31193 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
31194 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31197 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
31198 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
31199 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
31200 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
31204 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
31205 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
31206 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
31207 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
31209 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
31210 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
31212 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
31213 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
31214 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
31215 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
31216 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
31217 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
31218 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31219 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
31220 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31221 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
31224 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
31225 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
31226 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
31227 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
31228 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
31229 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
31231 o Removed features:
31232 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
31233 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
31234 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
31235 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
31238 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
31239 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
31240 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
31241 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
31242 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
31245 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
31246 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
31247 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
31248 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
31249 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
31250 reported by lodger.
31252 o Minor features (directory servers):
31253 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
31254 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
31256 o Minor features (directory voting):
31257 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
31260 o Minor features (security):
31261 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
31262 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
31263 encourage people using them to stop.
31265 o Minor features (controller):
31266 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
31267 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
31268 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
31269 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
31270 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
31271 cookie authentication file, and config option
31272 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
31274 o Minor features (unit testing):
31275 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
31276 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
31277 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
31278 logging for the unit tests.
31280 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
31281 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
31282 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
31283 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
31284 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
31285 every time we change any piece of our config.
31286 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
31287 the future. Fixes bug 434.
31288 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
31290 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
31291 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
31292 the onion key from getting rotated.
31293 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
31294 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
31295 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
31298 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31299 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
31300 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
31302 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
31303 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
31304 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
31305 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
31308 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
31309 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
31310 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
31311 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
31312 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
31313 TorK, etc. Or worse.
31315 o Major security fixes:
31316 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
31317 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
31320 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
31321 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
31322 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
31323 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
31325 o Major security fixes:
31326 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
31327 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
31329 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
31330 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
31333 o Minor features (performance):
31334 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
31335 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
31336 performance-intensive.
31337 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
31338 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
31339 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
31340 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
31341 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
31342 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
31346 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
31347 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
31348 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
31349 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
31353 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
31354 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
31355 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
31356 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
31357 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
31359 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
31360 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
31361 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
31362 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
31364 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
31365 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
31366 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
31367 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
31368 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
31370 o Major features (experimental):
31371 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
31372 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
31373 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
31374 handling before it's ready for use.
31377 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
31378 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
31379 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
31380 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
31381 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
31382 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
31384 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
31385 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
31386 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
31387 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
31388 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
31390 o Major bugfixes (directory):
31391 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
31392 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
31394 o Minor features (controller):
31395 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
31396 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
31397 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
31398 from Robert Hogan.)
31399 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
31400 from Robert Hogan.)
31401 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
31402 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
31404 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
31405 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
31406 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
31407 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
31408 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
31409 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
31410 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
31413 o Minor features (misc):
31414 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
31416 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
31417 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
31418 the authority identity key.
31419 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
31421 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
31422 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
31423 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
31426 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
31427 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
31428 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
31429 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
31430 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
31431 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
31432 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
31433 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
31435 o Performance improvements:
31436 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
31438 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
31439 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
31442 o Deprecated and removed features:
31443 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
31444 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
31445 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
31446 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
31448 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
31449 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
31450 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
31451 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
31452 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
31453 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
31454 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
31455 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
31456 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
31459 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
31460 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
31461 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
31462 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
31463 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
31465 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
31466 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
31469 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31470 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
31471 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
31472 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
31473 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
31474 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
31475 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
31476 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
31477 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
31480 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
31481 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
31482 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
31483 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
31485 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
31486 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
31488 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
31489 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
31490 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
31491 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
31492 routerlist while inserting a new router.
31493 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
31494 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
31496 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
31497 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
31498 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
31500 o Major bugfixes (security):
31501 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
31503 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
31504 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
31505 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
31506 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
31507 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
31508 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
31509 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
31510 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
31511 guard list unless we need to.
31513 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
31514 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
31515 don't get overused as guards.
31517 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
31518 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
31519 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
31520 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
31521 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
31523 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
31524 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
31525 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
31528 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
31529 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
31530 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
31531 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
31532 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
31533 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
31534 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
31535 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
31538 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
31539 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
31540 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
31541 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
31543 o Minor features (directory):
31544 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
31545 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
31546 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
31547 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
31549 o Minor build issues:
31550 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
31551 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
31552 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
31553 in the tarball, not as "x".
31556 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
31557 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
31558 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
31559 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
31560 forward on a lot of fronts.
31562 o Major features, server usability:
31563 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
31564 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
31565 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
31566 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
31568 o Major features, client usability:
31569 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
31570 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
31571 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
31572 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
31573 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
31574 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
31575 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
31576 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
31578 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
31579 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
31580 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
31581 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
31582 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
31583 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
31585 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
31586 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
31587 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
31589 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
31590 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
31591 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
31592 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
31593 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
31595 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
31596 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
31597 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
31598 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
31600 o Major features, other:
31601 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
31602 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
31603 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
31604 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
31605 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
31608 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
31609 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
31610 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
31613 o Minor fixes (resource management):
31614 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
31615 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
31616 our allocated connection limit.
31617 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
31618 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
31619 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
31620 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
31621 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
31623 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
31624 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
31625 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
31627 o Minor features (build):
31628 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
31629 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
31630 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
31631 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
31633 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
31634 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
31635 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
31636 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
31637 Use this version consistently in log messages.
31639 o Minor features (logging):
31640 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
31641 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
31642 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
31643 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
31644 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
31647 o Minor features (directory system):
31648 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
31649 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
31650 not to serve V2 directory information.
31651 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
31652 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
31653 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
31655 o Minor features (controller):
31656 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
31657 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
31659 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
31660 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
31661 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
31662 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
31663 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
31664 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
31666 o Minor features (hidden services):
31667 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
31668 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
31669 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
31670 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
31672 o Minor features (other):
31674 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
31675 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
31676 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
31677 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
31678 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
31679 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
31680 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
31681 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
31682 longer a completely silly thing to do.
31683 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
31684 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
31685 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
31686 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
31688 o Removed features:
31689 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
31690 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
31691 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
31692 back an error and close the connection.
31693 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
31694 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
31697 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
31698 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
31699 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
31700 makes the log messages nicer.
31701 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
31702 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
31703 partial results on small file reads.
31705 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
31706 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
31707 more often than they are allowed to appear.
31708 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
31709 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
31711 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
31712 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
31713 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
31714 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
31716 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31717 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
31718 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
31719 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
31720 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
31721 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
31722 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
31723 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
31724 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
31725 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
31726 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
31728 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
31729 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
31730 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
31732 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
31733 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
31734 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
31735 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
31737 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31738 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
31739 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
31741 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
31742 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
31745 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31746 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
31747 implicit in other procedure arguments.
31748 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
31749 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
31750 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
31751 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
31752 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
31753 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
31754 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
31755 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
31756 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
31759 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
31760 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
31761 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
31762 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
31764 o Directory authority changes:
31765 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
31766 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
31767 or use hidden services.
31769 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
31770 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
31771 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
31772 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
31773 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
31774 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
31775 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
31776 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
31777 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
31780 o Major bugfixes (security):
31781 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
31782 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
31783 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
31785 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
31786 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
31787 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
31788 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
31789 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
31790 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
31791 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
31792 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
31793 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
31794 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
31797 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
31798 purpose=controller.
31799 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
31800 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
31802 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
31803 having a hard time downloading.
31804 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
31805 partial results on small file reads.
31806 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
31807 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
31808 the gaps in the store get very large.
31811 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
31812 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
31814 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
31815 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
31818 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
31819 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
31820 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
31821 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
31822 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
31823 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
31825 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
31826 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
31827 free speech on the Internet.
31830 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
31831 get one we don't recognize.
31832 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
31833 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
31836 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
31838 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
31839 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
31840 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
31841 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
31844 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
31845 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
31848 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
31849 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
31850 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
31851 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
31852 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
31853 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
31854 ask for GUARDS too.
31857 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
31858 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
31859 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
31860 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
31861 on Win98 and friends again.
31863 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31864 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
31865 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
31868 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
31869 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
31870 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
31871 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
31872 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
31873 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
31874 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
31875 and maybe also bug 397.)
31877 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
31878 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
31879 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
31881 o Minor bugfixes (server):
31882 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
31885 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
31886 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
31887 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
31888 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
31889 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
31891 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
31892 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
31893 load on authorities.
31895 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31896 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
31897 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
31898 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
31900 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
31902 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
31903 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
31904 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
31905 the last of bug 326.)
31906 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
31907 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
31911 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
31912 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
31913 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
31914 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
31915 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
31916 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
31917 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
31919 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
31920 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
31922 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
31923 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
31924 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
31926 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
31927 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
31928 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
31930 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31931 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
31932 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
31933 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
31935 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
31936 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
31938 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
31939 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
31940 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
31943 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31944 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
31945 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
31946 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
31947 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
31948 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
31949 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
31950 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
31951 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
31952 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
31953 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
31954 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
31955 other than file-not-found.
31956 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
31957 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
31958 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
31959 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
31960 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
31961 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
31962 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
31963 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
31964 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
31965 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
31966 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
31967 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
31968 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
31969 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
31970 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
31972 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
31974 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
31975 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
31977 o Minor features (controller):
31978 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
31979 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
31980 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
31982 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
31983 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
31984 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
31985 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
31986 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
31987 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
31988 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
31989 connected or resolved cell.
31991 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
31992 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
31993 some profiles, but not others.)
31994 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
31995 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
31996 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
31999 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
32001 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
32002 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
32003 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
32004 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
32005 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
32006 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
32007 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
32008 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
32009 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
32010 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
32011 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
32012 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
32013 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
32014 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
32015 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
32017 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
32020 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
32021 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
32022 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
32023 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
32024 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
32025 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
32026 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
32028 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
32029 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
32030 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
32031 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
32032 buckets go absurdly negative.
32033 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
32034 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
32037 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
32038 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
32039 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
32040 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
32041 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
32042 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
32043 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
32044 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
32047 o Major bugfixes (other):
32048 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
32049 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
32050 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
32051 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
32053 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
32055 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
32056 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
32058 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
32059 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
32060 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
32061 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
32062 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
32063 to wait for 0.2.0.)
32065 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
32066 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
32067 possible memory-stomping bugs.
32068 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
32069 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
32071 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
32072 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
32073 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
32074 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
32075 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
32076 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
32078 o Minor bugfixes (other):
32079 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
32080 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
32081 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
32083 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
32084 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
32085 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
32086 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
32087 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
32088 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
32089 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
32090 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
32091 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
32092 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
32093 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
32094 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
32095 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
32097 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
32098 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
32099 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
32100 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
32101 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
32102 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
32103 to the resulting address.
32106 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
32107 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
32108 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
32109 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
32112 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
32113 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
32115 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
32116 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
32117 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
32118 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
32119 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
32120 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
32121 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
32122 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
32123 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
32124 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
32125 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
32126 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
32127 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
32128 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
32129 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
32130 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
32131 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
32134 o Minor features (controller):
32135 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
32136 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
32137 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
32138 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
32139 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
32140 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
32141 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
32145 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
32147 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
32148 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
32149 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
32150 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
32151 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
32152 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
32155 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
32156 weren't planning to resolve.
32157 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
32158 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
32159 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
32160 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
32161 the controller from learning about current events.
32163 o Minor features (more controller status events):
32164 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
32165 learn when our address changes.
32166 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
32167 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
32168 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
32169 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
32171 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
32172 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
32173 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
32174 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
32175 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
32176 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
32177 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
32178 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
32179 are accepted by a directory.
32180 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
32181 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
32182 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
32183 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
32184 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
32186 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
32187 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
32188 about changes to DNS server status.
32190 o Minor features (directory):
32191 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
32192 too much load to the exit nodes.
32195 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
32197 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
32198 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
32199 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
32200 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
32201 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
32203 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
32204 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
32205 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
32207 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
32208 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
32209 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
32210 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
32211 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
32212 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
32213 config options if you like.
32215 o Minor features (config and docs):
32216 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
32217 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
32218 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
32219 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
32220 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
32222 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
32223 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
32224 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
32225 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
32226 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
32228 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
32229 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
32230 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
32231 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
32232 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
32233 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
32234 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
32235 documentation: "make check-docs".
32236 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
32237 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
32239 o Minor features (DNS):
32240 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
32241 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
32242 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
32243 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
32244 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
32245 our tests for DNS hijacking.
32247 o Minor features (directory):
32248 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
32249 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
32250 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
32251 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
32252 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
32253 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
32254 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
32255 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
32256 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
32257 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
32258 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
32259 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
32260 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
32261 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
32262 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
32263 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
32264 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
32265 for the thing we're trying to download.
32266 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
32267 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
32268 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
32270 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
32271 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
32272 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
32275 o Minor features (controller):
32276 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
32277 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
32279 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
32280 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
32281 entry guard status as it changes.
32283 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
32284 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
32285 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
32286 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
32287 to set log options.
32288 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
32289 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
32290 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
32291 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
32294 o Major bugfixes (security):
32295 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
32296 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
32297 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
32298 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
32300 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
32301 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
32302 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
32303 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
32304 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
32306 o Major bugfixes (other):
32307 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
32308 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
32309 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
32310 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
32312 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
32313 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
32314 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
32315 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
32316 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
32317 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
32321 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
32322 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
32323 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
32324 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
32325 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
32327 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
32328 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
32330 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
32331 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
32332 family lists conveniently.
32333 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
32334 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
32335 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
32337 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
32338 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
32340 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
32341 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
32342 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
32343 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
32344 if their identity keys are as expected.
32345 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
32346 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
32347 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
32349 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32350 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
32351 reported by Mike Perry.
32352 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
32353 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
32354 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
32355 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
32358 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
32359 o Security bugfixes:
32360 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
32361 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
32362 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
32363 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
32367 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
32368 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
32369 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
32372 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
32374 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
32375 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
32376 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
32379 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
32380 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
32381 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
32382 watching for STREAM events.
32383 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
32384 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
32385 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
32386 operations, for profiling.
32389 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
32390 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
32391 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
32392 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
32393 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
32394 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
32396 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
32400 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
32401 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
32402 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
32403 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
32404 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
32406 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
32407 correctly in the Windows installer.
32408 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
32409 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
32410 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
32411 MIPSpro C compiler.
32412 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
32413 when we're running as a client.
32416 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
32418 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
32419 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
32420 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
32421 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
32422 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
32423 its circuits on demand.
32424 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
32425 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
32426 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
32427 connections more stable on average.
32428 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
32429 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
32430 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
32432 o Security bugfixes:
32433 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
32434 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
32437 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
32439 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
32440 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
32441 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
32442 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
32443 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
32444 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
32445 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
32446 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
32449 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
32451 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
32452 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
32453 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
32454 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
32455 routers for even longer.
32456 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
32457 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
32458 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
32459 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
32460 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
32461 caching HTTP proxies.
32462 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
32465 o Minor features, controller:
32466 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
32467 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
32468 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
32469 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
32471 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
32472 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
32473 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
32474 working much like those for circuit events.
32475 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
32476 about the current status of a router.
32477 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
32478 a router's status has changed.
32479 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
32480 can tell which events and features are supported.
32481 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
32482 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
32484 o Security bugfixes:
32485 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
32486 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
32489 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
32490 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
32491 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
32492 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
32493 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
32494 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
32495 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
32496 long nicknames where appropriate.
32497 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
32498 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
32499 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
32500 chews through many circuits before giving up.
32501 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
32502 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
32503 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
32504 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
32505 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
32506 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
32508 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
32509 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
32510 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
32512 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
32513 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
32514 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
32515 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
32516 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
32517 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
32518 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
32519 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
32520 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
32521 (reported by fookoowa).
32522 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
32523 and reported by some Centos users.
32524 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
32525 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
32526 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
32527 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
32528 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
32529 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
32530 before we check for libevent.
32533 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
32535 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
32536 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
32537 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
32538 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
32539 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
32540 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
32541 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
32542 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
32543 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
32544 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
32545 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
32546 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
32547 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
32548 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
32549 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
32550 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
32551 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
32552 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
32553 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
32554 lets you turn it off.
32555 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
32556 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
32557 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
32558 us into the directory more quickly.
32560 o New/improved config options:
32561 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
32562 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
32563 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
32564 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
32565 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
32566 all the machines on the same subnet.
32567 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
32568 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
32569 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
32570 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
32571 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
32572 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
32573 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
32574 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
32575 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
32576 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
32578 o Minor features, controller:
32579 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
32580 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
32581 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
32582 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
32583 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
32584 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
32585 for more information.
32586 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
32587 best guess to the user.
32588 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
32589 descriptor has changed.
32590 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
32592 o Minor features, other:
32593 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
32594 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
32595 useful to the network.
32596 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
32597 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
32598 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
32599 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
32600 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
32601 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
32602 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
32603 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
32604 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
32605 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
32606 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
32607 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
32608 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
32609 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
32610 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
32612 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
32613 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
32614 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
32615 could return an unnamed server instead.
32616 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
32617 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
32618 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
32619 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
32620 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
32621 a more attractive target for compromise.)
32622 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
32623 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
32624 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
32626 o Major bugfixes, other:
32627 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
32628 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
32629 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
32630 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
32631 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
32632 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
32633 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
32634 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
32635 its circuits on demand.
32636 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
32637 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
32638 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
32639 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
32641 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
32642 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
32643 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
32644 we don't recognize.
32645 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
32647 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
32648 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
32649 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
32650 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
32651 "extendcircuit" request.
32652 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
32653 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
32654 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
32656 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
32657 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
32658 instead of "X resolved to X".
32659 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
32660 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
32661 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
32662 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
32663 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
32664 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
32665 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
32666 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
32667 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
32669 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
32670 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
32671 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
32672 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
32673 result more than once.
32674 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
32675 non-versioning dirservers.
32676 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
32677 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
32679 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
32680 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
32681 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
32682 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
32683 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
32684 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
32685 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
32686 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
32687 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
32689 o Packaging, features:
32690 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
32691 now universal binaries.
32692 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
32693 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
32694 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
32696 o Packaging, bugfixes:
32697 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
32698 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
32699 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
32700 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
32702 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
32703 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
32704 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
32707 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
32708 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
32709 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
32713 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
32715 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
32716 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
32717 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
32718 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
32719 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
32720 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
32721 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
32722 it can't resolve its hostname.
32725 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
32726 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
32727 "extendcircuit" request.
32728 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
32729 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
32730 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
32731 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
32733 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
32734 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
32735 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
32737 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
32738 methods: these are known to be buggy.
32739 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
32740 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
32741 we don't recognize.
32744 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
32746 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
32747 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
32748 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
32749 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
32750 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
32751 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
32752 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
32753 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
32754 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
32755 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
32756 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
32757 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
32758 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
32759 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
32760 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
32761 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
32762 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
32763 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
32764 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
32765 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
32766 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
32767 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
32768 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
32769 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
32772 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
32773 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
32774 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
32775 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
32776 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
32777 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
32778 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
32779 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
32780 recommendation system saner.)
32781 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
32783 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
32784 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
32785 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
32786 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
32787 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
32788 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
32789 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
32790 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
32791 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
32792 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
32793 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
32794 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
32795 your ORPort is set.
32796 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
32797 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
32798 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
32799 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
32800 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
32801 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
32802 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
32803 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
32804 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
32805 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
32806 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
32807 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
32809 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
32810 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
32811 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
32812 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
32813 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
32814 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
32817 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
32818 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
32819 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
32820 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
32821 our DirPort now, etc.
32822 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
32823 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
32824 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
32825 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
32826 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
32827 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
32828 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
32830 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
32831 whether the config options are bad or good.
32832 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
32833 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
32834 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
32835 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
32836 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
32837 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
32838 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
32839 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
32842 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
32843 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
32844 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
32845 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
32846 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
32847 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
32848 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
32849 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
32850 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
32851 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
32852 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
32853 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
32854 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
32855 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
32856 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
32857 of it), is not therefore "up".
32858 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
32859 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
32860 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
32861 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
32862 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
32863 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
32866 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
32868 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
32869 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
32870 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
32871 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
32872 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
32873 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
32874 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
32875 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
32876 test reachability, so you won't publish.
32879 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
32880 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
32881 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
32882 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
32883 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
32885 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
32886 own server descriptor yet.
32889 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
32891 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
32892 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
32893 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
32894 make sure to test via one of these.
32895 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
32896 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
32897 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
32898 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
32899 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
32901 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
32902 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
32903 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
32906 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
32907 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
32908 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
32909 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
32910 directory authority.
32911 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
32912 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
32913 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
32914 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
32917 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
32918 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
32919 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
32921 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
32922 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
32923 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
32924 current guards when picking a new guard.
32925 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
32926 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
32927 when we had more than one pending.
32928 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
32929 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
32930 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
32931 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
32932 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
32933 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
32934 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
32935 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
32936 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
32937 debug the reachability problems better.
32939 o Log / documentation fixes:
32940 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
32941 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
32942 about protocol violations by others.
32943 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
32944 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
32945 about what happened to our old torrc.
32948 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
32950 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
32952 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
32953 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
32954 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
32955 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
32958 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
32960 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
32961 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
32962 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
32963 old ORPort and receive connections.
32964 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
32966 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
32967 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
32968 and network-statuses.
32969 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
32970 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
32971 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
32972 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
32974 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
32977 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
32978 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
32979 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
32982 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
32984 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
32985 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
32986 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
32987 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
32988 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
32991 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
32992 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
32994 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
32995 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
32996 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
32997 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
32998 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
32999 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
33000 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
33001 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
33002 rather than not sending anything back at all.
33003 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
33004 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
33005 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
33006 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
33007 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
33008 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
33009 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
33010 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
33011 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
33012 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
33013 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
33014 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
33015 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
33016 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
33017 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
33018 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
33019 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
33020 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
33021 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
33022 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
33023 default ulimit -n is 1024.
33026 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
33027 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
33028 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
33029 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
33032 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
33034 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
33035 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
33036 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
33037 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
33038 entry guards running these flawed versions.
33039 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
33040 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
33041 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
33042 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
33043 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
33046 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
33047 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
33049 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
33050 and it is confusing some users.
33051 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
33052 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
33053 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
33054 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
33055 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
33058 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
33060 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
33061 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
33062 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
33063 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
33064 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
33065 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
33066 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
33067 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
33068 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
33069 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
33070 dirport is set for now.
33072 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
33073 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
33074 unattached before we fail it?
33075 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
33076 at least this many seconds ago.
33077 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
33078 at least this many seconds ago.
33081 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
33082 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
33083 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
33084 or resolve-wait stream.
33085 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
33086 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
33087 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
33088 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
33089 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
33090 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
33091 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
33092 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
33094 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
33095 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
33096 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
33097 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
33098 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
33099 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
33100 given as hex digests.
33101 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
33102 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
33103 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
33104 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
33105 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
33106 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
33107 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
33108 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
33111 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33112 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
33113 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
33114 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
33115 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
33116 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
33117 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
33118 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
33119 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
33120 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
33121 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
33124 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
33125 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
33126 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
33127 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
33128 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
33129 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
33130 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
33133 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
33134 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
33135 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
33136 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
33137 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
33138 misreading their logs.
33139 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
33140 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
33141 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
33142 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
33143 valid router descriptors.
33144 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
33145 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
33146 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
33147 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
33148 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
33149 silently resetting it to its default.
33150 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
33152 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
33155 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
33156 use clean circuits.
33157 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
33158 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
33159 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
33160 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
33161 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
33163 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
33164 because older Tors do not understand it.
33165 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
33169 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
33170 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
33171 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
33172 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
33173 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
33174 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
33175 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
33176 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
33177 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
33178 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
33179 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
33181 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
33182 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
33183 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
33184 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
33186 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
33187 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
33190 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
33191 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
33192 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
33193 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
33194 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
33195 without getting overloaded.
33196 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
33198 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
33199 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
33200 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
33201 be forward-compatible.
33202 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
33203 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
33204 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
33205 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
33207 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
33208 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
33209 and OR conns to port 443.
33210 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
33211 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
33213 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
33214 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
33215 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
33216 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
33217 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
33218 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
33219 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
33222 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
33223 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33224 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
33225 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
33227 o Other important bugfixes:
33228 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
33229 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
33230 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
33231 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
33233 o Backported features:
33234 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
33235 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
33236 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
33237 without getting overloaded.
33238 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
33239 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
33240 503's whenever they feel busy.
33241 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
33242 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
33243 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
33244 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
33245 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
33248 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
33249 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
33250 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
33251 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
33252 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
33253 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
33254 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
33255 know if the crashes continue.
33256 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
33257 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
33258 seg faults in at least some cases.)
33259 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
33260 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
33261 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
33264 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
33265 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
33266 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
33267 try to be a bit more fair.
33268 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
33269 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
33270 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
33271 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
33272 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
33273 bug that let it go negative.
33274 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
33275 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
33276 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
33277 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
33278 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
33279 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
33280 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
33281 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
33282 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
33283 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
33284 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
33287 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
33289 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
33290 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
33291 service descriptors.
33294 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
33295 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
33296 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
33297 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
33299 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
33300 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
33301 versions *are* still recommended.
33302 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
33303 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
33304 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
33305 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
33306 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
33307 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
33308 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
33309 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
33311 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
33312 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
33313 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
33314 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
33315 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
33316 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
33317 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
33318 on it. Not used by clients yet.
33319 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
33320 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
33321 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
33322 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
33323 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
33324 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
33325 established a circuit.
33326 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
33327 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
33328 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
33329 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
33332 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
33333 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
33334 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
33335 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
33336 quickly enough. Oops.
33337 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
33339 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33340 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
33343 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
33344 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
33345 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
33346 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
33347 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
33348 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
33349 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
33350 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
33351 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
33352 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
33353 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
33354 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
33355 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
33356 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
33357 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
33358 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
33359 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
33362 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
33363 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
33364 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
33365 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
33366 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
33367 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
33368 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
33369 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
33370 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
33371 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
33372 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
33373 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
33374 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
33375 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
33376 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
33377 connections more reliable.
33380 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
33381 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
33382 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
33383 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
33384 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
33385 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
33386 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
33387 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
33388 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
33389 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
33390 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
33391 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
33392 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
33393 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
33397 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
33398 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
33399 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
33400 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
33401 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
33402 need to be uint64_t's.
33403 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
33404 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
33405 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
33407 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
33409 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
33410 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
33411 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
33412 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
33413 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
33414 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
33415 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
33417 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
33418 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
33419 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
33420 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
33421 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
33422 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
33423 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
33424 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
33425 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
33426 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
33427 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
33428 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
33429 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
33432 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
33433 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
33434 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
33435 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
33436 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
33437 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
33438 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
33440 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
33441 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
33442 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
33443 can answer v2 directory requests too.
33444 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
33445 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
33446 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
33447 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
33449 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
33450 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
33451 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
33452 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
33453 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
33454 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
33455 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
33456 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
33457 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
33458 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
33459 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
33460 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
33461 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
33462 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
33463 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
33465 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
33466 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
33469 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
33470 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33471 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
33472 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
33473 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
33474 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
33475 too -- so detect and avoid this.
33476 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
33478 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
33479 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
33480 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
33481 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
33482 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
33483 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
33484 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
33485 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
33486 rendezvous circuits.
33487 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
33489 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33490 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
33491 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
33492 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
33493 advertising it because of hibernation.
33494 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
33495 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
33496 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
33497 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
33498 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
33499 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
33500 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
33501 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
33502 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
33503 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
33504 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
33505 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
33506 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
33507 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
33510 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
33511 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33512 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
33513 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
33514 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
33515 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
33516 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
33517 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
33518 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
33519 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
33520 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
33521 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
33522 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
33523 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
33524 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
33525 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
33526 connections once a week.
33527 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
33528 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
33529 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
33530 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
33531 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
33532 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
33534 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
33535 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
33536 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
33538 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33539 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
33540 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
33541 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
33542 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
33543 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
33544 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
33545 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
33546 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
33547 firewall options forbid.
33548 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
33549 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
33550 can only proxy to certain destinations.
33551 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
33552 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
33553 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
33554 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
33555 aids some statistical attacks.
33556 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
33557 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
33558 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
33559 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
33561 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
33562 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
33563 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
33564 server descriptor sometimes.
33565 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
33566 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
33567 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
33568 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
33569 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
33570 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
33571 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
33572 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
33574 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
33575 case the controller wants to change that too.
33576 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
33577 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
33578 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
33579 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
33581 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
33582 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
33583 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
33585 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
33586 descriptors that they know they will reject.
33588 o Features and updates:
33589 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
33590 significantly faster.
33591 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
33592 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
33593 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
33594 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
33595 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
33596 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
33597 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
33598 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
33599 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
33600 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
33601 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
33602 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
33603 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
33604 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
33605 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
33606 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
33607 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
33608 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
33609 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
33610 as authoritative dirserver.
33611 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
33612 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
33613 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
33616 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
33617 o Usability improvements:
33618 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
33619 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
33621 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
33622 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
33623 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
33625 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
33626 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
33627 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
33628 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
33629 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
33630 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
33631 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
33632 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
33633 memory leaks better.
33634 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
33635 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
33636 their operators to pay close attention.
33637 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
33638 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
33640 o Performance improvements:
33641 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
33642 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
33643 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
33644 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
33645 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
33646 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
33647 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
33648 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
33649 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
33650 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
33651 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
33652 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
33653 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
33654 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
33655 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
33656 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
33657 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
33659 o Security improvements:
33660 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
33661 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
33662 fingerprint of server.
33663 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
33664 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
33665 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
33667 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33668 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
33669 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
33670 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
33671 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
33672 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
33673 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
33674 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
33675 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
33676 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
33677 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
33678 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
33679 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
33680 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
33681 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
33682 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
33683 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
33684 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
33685 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
33686 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
33687 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
33689 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
33690 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
33691 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
33693 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
33694 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
33696 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
33697 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
33698 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
33699 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
33700 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
33701 of the controller protocol.
33702 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
33703 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
33704 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
33707 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
33708 o New features (major):
33709 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
33710 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
33711 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
33712 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
33713 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
33714 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
33715 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
33716 we're using a default DirPort.
33717 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
33719 o New features (minor):
33720 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
33721 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
33722 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
33723 mirrors still cache and serve it).
33724 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
33725 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
33726 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
33727 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
33728 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
33729 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
33730 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
33731 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
33732 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
33733 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
33734 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
33735 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
33736 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
33737 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
33738 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
33740 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
33741 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
33742 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
33743 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
33744 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
33745 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
33746 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
33747 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
33749 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
33750 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
33751 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
33752 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
33753 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
33754 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
33755 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
33756 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
33757 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
33758 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
33760 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
33761 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
33762 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
33763 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
33764 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
33766 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
33767 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
33768 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
33770 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
33771 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
33773 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
33774 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
33775 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
33776 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
33777 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
33778 don't warn twice about the same name.
33779 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
33780 if we've not heard of the server.
33781 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
33782 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
33785 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
33786 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33787 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
33788 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
33789 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
33790 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
33791 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
33792 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
33793 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
33794 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
33795 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
33796 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
33797 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
33798 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
33799 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
33802 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
33803 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
33804 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
33805 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
33806 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
33808 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
33809 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
33810 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
33811 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
33812 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
33813 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
33817 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
33818 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
33819 nickname) is reachable by you.
33820 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
33823 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
33824 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
33825 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
33826 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
33827 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
33828 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
33829 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
33830 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
33831 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
33832 we fail to connect).
33833 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
33834 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
33835 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
33836 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
33838 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
33839 it was self-testing that told us so.
33842 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
33843 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
33844 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
33845 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
33846 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
33847 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
33848 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
33849 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
33850 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
33851 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
33852 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
33853 exit policy using him for any exits.
33854 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
33857 o New controller features/fixes:
33858 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
33859 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
33860 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
33861 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
33862 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
33863 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
33864 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
33865 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
33866 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
33868 o Start on the new directory design:
33869 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
33870 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
33872 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
33873 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
33874 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
33875 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
33877 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
33878 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
33879 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
33880 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
33881 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
33882 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
33883 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
33884 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
33887 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
33888 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
33889 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
33890 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
33891 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
33892 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
33893 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
33894 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
33895 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
33896 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
33898 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
33899 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
33900 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
33901 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
33902 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
33903 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
33904 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
33905 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
33906 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
33908 o Config option changes:
33909 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
33910 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
33911 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
33912 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
33913 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
33914 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
33916 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
33917 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
33918 people have started using them for spam too.
33919 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
33920 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
33921 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
33922 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
33923 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
33924 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
33925 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
33926 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
33927 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
33928 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
33929 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
33930 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
33931 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
33932 services faster on the service end.
33933 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
33934 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
33935 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
33936 it a fair shake next time we try.
33937 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
33938 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
33939 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
33940 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
33941 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
33942 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
33943 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
33944 able to discover them.
33945 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
33946 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
33947 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
33948 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
33949 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
33950 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
33951 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
33952 testing for reachability.
33953 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
33954 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
33956 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
33958 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
33959 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
33962 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
33963 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
33965 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33966 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
33967 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
33968 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
33971 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
33972 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33973 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
33975 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
33976 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
33979 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
33980 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
33983 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
33984 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
33985 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
33986 options, getinfo keys.
33989 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
33990 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33991 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
33992 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
33993 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
33994 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
33995 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
33997 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
33998 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
34002 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
34003 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
34004 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
34006 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
34008 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
34009 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
34010 circuit events and we go offline.
34011 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
34012 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
34013 you don't have enough intro points already.
34015 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
34016 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
34017 many bytes we've used in this time period.
34018 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
34019 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
34020 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
34021 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
34022 enabled by default yet.
34024 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
34025 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
34026 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
34027 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
34028 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
34031 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
34032 o New directory servers:
34033 - tor26 has changed IP address.
34035 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34036 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
34037 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
34038 pthreads libraries.
34039 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
34040 claims its dirport is 0.
34041 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
34042 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
34046 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
34047 o New directory servers:
34048 - tor26 has changed IP address.
34050 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
34051 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
34053 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
34054 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
34055 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
34056 ports that have changed.
34057 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
34059 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
34060 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
34061 Windows-style errno back.
34062 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
34064 want to make it an NT service.
34065 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
34066 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
34067 name, give the full name in our response.
34068 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
34069 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
34070 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
34071 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
34072 pthreads libraries.
34074 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
34075 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
34079 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
34080 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
34081 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
34082 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
34083 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
34086 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
34087 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
34088 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
34089 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
34090 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
34091 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
34092 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
34093 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
34096 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
34098 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
34099 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
34100 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
34101 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
34102 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
34103 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
34105 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
34106 temporarily unreachable.
34107 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
34111 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
34112 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
34113 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
34114 our protocol works.
34115 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
34119 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
34120 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
34121 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
34122 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
34123 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
34127 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
34128 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
34129 libevent before 1.1a.
34132 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
34134 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
34135 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
34136 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
34137 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
34138 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
34140 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
34141 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
34142 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
34143 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
34144 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
34145 of CPU time plus memory.
34146 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
34147 normal web requests.
34148 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
34149 tor_lookup_hostname().
34150 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
34151 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
34152 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
34153 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
34154 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
34155 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
34157 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
34158 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
34159 HttpProxyAuthenticator
34160 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
34161 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
34162 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
34164 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
34165 the user asks you to.
34166 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
34167 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
34168 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
34169 their descriptors are being rejected.
34170 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
34174 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
34176 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
34177 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
34178 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
34180 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
34182 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
34184 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
34185 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
34186 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
34187 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
34188 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
34189 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
34190 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
34191 keys) from the exit server's process.
34192 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
34193 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
34194 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
34195 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
34196 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
34197 point at your Tor server.
34198 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
34199 you're not sending a socks reply back.
34202 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
34203 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
34204 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
34205 to make it easier to write controllers.
34208 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
34210 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
34211 installing on Tiger.
34212 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
34213 complain during installation.
34214 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
34215 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
34216 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
34217 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
34218 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
34219 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
34221 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
34222 something more reasonable when first installing.
34223 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
34226 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
34228 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
34229 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
34231 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
34232 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
34233 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
34234 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
34235 when using the default exit policy.
34236 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
34237 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
34238 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
34239 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
34240 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
34241 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
34242 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
34243 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
34244 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
34245 we fetched a new directory.
34246 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
34247 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
34250 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
34251 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
34252 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
34253 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
34254 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
34255 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
34256 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
34257 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
34259 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
34260 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
34261 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
34262 save memory on systems that need to fork.
34263 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
34264 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
34265 is valid without actually launching Tor.
34266 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
34267 rather than just rejecting it.
34270 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
34272 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
34273 we didn't like its cert.
34275 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
34276 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
34277 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
34278 on patch from Adam Langley.
34279 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
34280 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
34281 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
34282 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
34284 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
34285 directory every time you regenerate it.
34286 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
34287 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
34290 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
34291 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
34292 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
34293 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
34294 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
34297 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
34299 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
34300 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
34301 TLS errors better in other situations too.
34302 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
34303 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
34304 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
34305 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
34306 and don't log when you are.
34307 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
34308 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
34310 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
34311 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
34312 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
34313 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
34314 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
34317 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
34318 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
34319 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
34320 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
34321 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
34322 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
34323 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
34324 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
34325 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
34326 nickname+key are allowed.
34327 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
34328 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
34329 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
34330 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
34331 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
34332 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
34333 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
34334 have quite wrong clocks).
34335 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
34336 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
34337 - Efficiency improvements:
34338 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
34339 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
34340 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
34341 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
34342 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
34343 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
34344 lowercase and be done with it.
34345 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
34346 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
34347 to abandon partially built circuits.
34348 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
34349 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
34351 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
34353 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
34354 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
34355 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
34356 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
34358 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
34359 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
34361 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
34362 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
34363 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
34364 obeying the exit policy internally.
34365 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
34366 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
34368 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
34369 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
34370 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
34371 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
34373 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
34374 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
34375 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
34376 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
34377 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
34379 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
34380 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
34381 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
34382 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
34383 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
34384 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
34385 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
34386 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
34387 descriptors we just dropped.
34388 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
34389 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
34390 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
34391 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
34392 artificially capped at 500kB.
34395 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
34396 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
34397 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
34398 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
34399 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
34400 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
34401 busy for more than 100 seconds.
34404 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
34405 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
34406 - Fixes on reachability detection:
34407 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
34408 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
34409 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
34410 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
34411 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
34412 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
34413 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
34414 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
34415 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
34416 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
34417 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
34418 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
34419 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
34420 server not already connected to them.
34421 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
34422 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
34423 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
34425 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
34427 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
34428 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
34429 are in a different state than they actually are.
34430 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
34431 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
34432 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
34434 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
34435 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
34436 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
34438 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
34439 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
34440 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
34441 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
34442 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
34443 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
34444 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
34446 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
34447 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
34448 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
34449 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
34452 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
34453 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
34454 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
34455 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
34456 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
34457 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
34458 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
34459 creating actual system users.
34460 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
34461 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
34465 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
34467 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
34468 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
34469 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
34470 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
34471 hidden services better.
34472 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
34474 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
34475 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
34476 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
34477 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
34478 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
34479 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
34480 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
34481 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
34482 patch by Matt Edman).
34483 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
34484 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
34485 required exit node for certain sites.
34486 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
34487 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
34488 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
34489 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
34490 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
34491 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
34492 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
34493 rather than just "success" or "failure".
34494 - A more sane version numbering system. See
34495 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
34496 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
34497 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
34499 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
34500 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
34501 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
34502 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
34503 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
34504 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
34505 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
34507 o Robustness/stability fixes:
34508 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
34509 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
34510 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
34512 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
34513 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
34514 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
34516 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
34517 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
34518 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
34520 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
34521 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
34522 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
34523 that will want high uptime circuits.
34524 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
34525 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
34526 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
34527 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
34528 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
34529 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
34530 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
34531 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
34532 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
34533 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
34534 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
34535 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
34536 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
34537 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
34538 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
34539 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
34540 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
34541 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
34542 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
34543 when we try to launch one.
34544 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
34545 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
34546 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
34547 "ShutdownWaitLength".
34548 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
34549 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
34550 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
34551 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
34552 and to take errno into account where possible.
34555 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
34556 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
34557 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
34558 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
34559 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
34560 file more reasonable.
34561 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
34562 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
34563 addresses -- it won't.
34564 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
34565 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
34566 for google.com" problem.
34567 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
34568 so it's not just "unknown platform".
34569 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
34570 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
34571 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
34572 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
34574 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
34575 they could use instead.
34576 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
34577 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
34578 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
34579 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
34580 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
34581 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
34582 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
34583 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
34584 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
34586 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
34590 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
34591 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
34593 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
34594 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
34595 private-IP addresses.
34596 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
34597 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
34599 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
34600 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
34601 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
34602 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
34603 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
34604 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
34605 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
34607 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
34608 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
34609 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
34610 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
34611 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
34612 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
34613 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
34614 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
34616 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
34618 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
34619 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
34620 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
34621 whether the server is hibernating.
34624 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
34625 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
34626 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
34627 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
34628 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
34629 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
34630 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
34631 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
34632 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
34633 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
34634 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
34635 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
34636 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
34637 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
34638 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
34640 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
34641 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
34642 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
34643 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
34644 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
34645 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
34646 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
34647 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
34648 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
34649 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
34650 existing torrc files.
34651 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
34654 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
34655 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
34656 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
34657 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
34658 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
34659 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
34660 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
34661 the win32 SYSTEM account.
34662 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
34663 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
34664 file descriptors available.
34665 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
34666 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
34667 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
34670 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
34671 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
34672 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
34673 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
34675 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
34676 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
34677 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
34678 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
34679 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
34681 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
34682 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
34683 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
34684 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
34685 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
34686 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
34687 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
34688 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
34689 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
34690 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
34691 800kB/s of capacity.
34692 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
34695 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
34696 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
34697 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
34698 need as much processor time.
34699 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
34700 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
34701 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
34702 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
34703 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
34704 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
34705 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
34706 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
34707 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
34708 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
34709 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
34710 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
34712 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
34713 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
34714 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
34715 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
34716 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
34717 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
34718 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
34721 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
34722 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
34723 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
34725 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
34726 style address, then we'd crash.
34727 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
34728 a dirserver is broken.
34729 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
34731 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
34732 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
34733 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
34735 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
34736 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
34737 name out of the warning/assert messages.
34738 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
34739 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
34740 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
34742 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
34743 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
34744 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
34746 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
34748 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
34749 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
34750 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
34751 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
34752 values at once couldn't work.
34753 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
34754 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
34755 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
34756 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
34757 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
34758 they can handle any number of routers.
34759 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
34760 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
34761 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
34762 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
34763 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
34764 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
34765 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
34766 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
34767 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
34770 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
34771 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
34772 - Make hibernation actually work.
34773 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
34774 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
34775 don't use the stream status code.
34778 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
34780 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
34781 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
34783 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
34786 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
34787 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
34788 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
34789 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
34790 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
34791 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
34792 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
34793 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
34794 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
34795 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
34797 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34798 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
34799 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
34800 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
34801 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
34802 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
34803 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
34804 - Make unit tests work on win32.
34807 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
34808 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
34809 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
34811 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
34812 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
34813 than just chopping them off.
34814 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
34816 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34817 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
34818 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
34819 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
34820 right after sending the begin cell.
34821 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
34822 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
34823 exit nodes too. Oops.
34826 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
34827 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
34828 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
34829 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
34830 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
34831 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
34832 the user knows which one it's talking about.
34833 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
34834 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
34835 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
34838 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
34839 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34840 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
34841 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
34843 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
34845 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
34846 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
34847 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
34849 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
34850 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
34851 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
34852 Clip rather than rejecting.
34853 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
34854 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
34857 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
34858 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
34859 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
34860 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
34862 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
34865 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
34866 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34867 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
34868 win32 socket errors better.
34870 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
34871 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
34874 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
34875 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34876 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
34877 so we don't see those messages days later.
34879 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
34880 - Make tor-resolve work again.
34881 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
34882 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
34885 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
34886 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
34887 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
34888 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
34890 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
34891 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
34892 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
34895 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
34896 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34897 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
34898 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
34899 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
34900 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
34901 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
34902 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
34903 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
34905 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
34906 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
34907 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
34908 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
34910 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
34911 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
34914 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
34915 hibernation properties by
34916 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
34917 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
34918 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
34919 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
34920 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
34921 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
34922 get back to normal.)
34923 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
34925 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
34926 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
34927 to fill the last cell completely.
34928 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
34931 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
34932 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34933 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
34934 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
34935 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
34936 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
34937 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
34938 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
34939 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
34940 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
34941 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
34943 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
34944 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
34945 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
34946 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
34947 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
34948 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
34949 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
34950 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
34952 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
34953 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
34954 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
34955 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
34956 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
34957 have it on start-up.
34960 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
34961 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
34962 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
34963 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
34964 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
34965 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
34966 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
34967 configuration to torrc.
34968 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
34969 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
34970 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
34971 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
34972 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
34974 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
34975 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
34976 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
34977 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
34978 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
34979 log more informatively.
34980 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
34981 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
34982 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
34983 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
34984 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
34985 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
34986 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
34987 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
34988 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
34989 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
34990 from each other, to hinder linkability.
34993 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
34994 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
34995 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
34996 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
34997 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
34998 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
34999 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
35001 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
35002 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
35003 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
35004 they ran out of file descriptors.
35005 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
35006 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
35007 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
35008 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
35009 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
35010 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
35011 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
35013 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
35016 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
35017 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
35018 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
35019 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
35020 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
35021 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
35022 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
35023 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
35024 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
35025 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
35026 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
35027 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
35028 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
35029 with the control port.
35030 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
35031 use in authenticating to the control interface.
35032 - New log format in config:
35033 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
35034 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
35037 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
35038 from their dirserver.
35039 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
35041 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
35042 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
35043 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
35044 them act more like real nodes.
35045 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
35046 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
35048 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
35049 nickname to its identity key.
35050 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
35051 not on the command line.
35052 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
35053 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
35054 1024) file descriptors.
35056 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
35057 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
35059 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
35060 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
35061 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
35064 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
35065 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
35066 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
35067 exit policy, not reject *:*.
35068 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
35069 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
35070 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
35071 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
35072 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
35073 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
35074 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
35077 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
35078 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
35079 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
35080 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
35081 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
35082 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
35083 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
35086 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
35087 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
35088 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
35089 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
35090 the ones we find in directories.)
35091 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
35093 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
35094 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
35096 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
35097 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
35098 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
35100 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
35101 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
35102 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
35103 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
35105 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
35106 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
35107 any more exit policy lines.
35110 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
35111 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
35112 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
35113 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
35114 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
35115 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
35116 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
35117 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
35118 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
35119 will be able to get a directory.
35120 - Http proxy support
35121 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
35122 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
35123 be routed through this host.
35124 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
35125 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
35126 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
35127 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
35130 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
35132 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
35133 clients/servers with an open dirport.
35134 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
35135 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
35136 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
35137 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
35138 intermittent connections.
35139 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
35140 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
35142 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
35143 in reporting stats locally.
35144 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
35145 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
35146 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
35149 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
35151 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
35152 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
35155 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
35157 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
35158 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
35159 if you don't want it open.
35160 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
35161 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
35162 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
35163 intermittent connections.
35164 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
35166 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
35167 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
35168 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
35169 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
35170 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
35171 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
35172 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
35173 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
35174 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
35175 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
35176 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
35177 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
35178 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
35179 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
35180 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
35181 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
35184 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
35185 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
35186 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
35187 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
35188 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
35190 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
35192 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
35193 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
35194 specified in HTTP 1.0.
35195 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
35196 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
35197 than once per minute.
35198 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
35199 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
35202 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
35203 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
35206 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
35207 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
35208 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
35209 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
35212 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
35213 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
35215 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
35216 don't put it into the client dns cache.
35217 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
35218 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
35219 until we get our next directory.
35221 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
35222 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
35223 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
35224 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
35225 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
35226 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
35227 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
35228 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
35229 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
35230 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
35231 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
35233 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
35235 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
35236 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
35238 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
35239 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
35240 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
35242 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
35244 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
35245 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
35246 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
35247 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
35248 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
35249 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
35250 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
35251 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
35254 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
35255 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
35256 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
35257 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
35260 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
35261 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
35262 ask them to resolve the host "".
35265 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
35266 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
35267 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
35268 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
35269 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
35270 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
35271 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
35272 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
35273 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
35274 clients don't use this yet.)
35275 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
35276 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
35277 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
35278 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
35279 for pointing out this bug.)
35280 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
35281 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
35282 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
35283 kazaa, gnutella ports.
35284 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
35286 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
35287 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
35288 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
35289 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
35290 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
35291 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
35292 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
35293 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
35294 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
35295 wolf unpredictably.
35296 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
35297 that's still handshaking.
35298 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
35299 you'll choose it for your path.
35300 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
35301 end relay cell, etc.
35302 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
35303 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
35304 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
35307 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
35308 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
35310 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
35311 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
35312 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
35313 list to decide who's running or verified.
35314 - Bugfixes and features:
35315 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
35316 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
35317 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
35318 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
35319 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
35320 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
35322 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
35323 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
35324 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
35325 know you might want to get it verified.
35326 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
35329 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
35331 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
35332 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
35333 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
35334 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
35336 o Protocol changes:
35337 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
35338 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
35339 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
35340 hadn't heard of before.
35343 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
35344 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
35345 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
35346 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
35347 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
35348 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
35349 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
35350 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
35351 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
35352 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
35353 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
35354 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
35355 - Directory caching.
35356 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
35357 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
35358 directory they've pulled down.
35359 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
35360 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
35361 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
35362 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
35363 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
35364 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
35365 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
35367 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
35368 This isn't used yet.
35369 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
35370 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
35371 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
35372 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
35373 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
35374 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
35375 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
35376 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
35377 - File and name management:
35378 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
35379 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
35381 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
35382 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
35383 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
35384 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
35385 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
35386 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
35387 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
35389 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
35390 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
35391 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
35392 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
35393 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
35395 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
35396 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
35397 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
35398 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
35399 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
35400 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
35401 - New docs in the tarball:
35403 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
35406 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
35407 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
35408 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
35411 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
35412 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
35413 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
35416 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
35417 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
35420 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
35421 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
35422 - Make it build on Win32 again.
35423 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
35424 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
35428 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
35430 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
35431 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
35432 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
35433 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
35434 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
35435 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
35436 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
35437 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
35438 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
35439 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
35442 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
35445 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
35446 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
35447 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
35448 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
35450 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
35451 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
35452 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
35454 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
35455 hidden service per 15-minute period.
35456 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
35457 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
35458 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
35459 o Fixes for security bugs:
35460 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
35461 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
35462 a trusted dirserver.
35464 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
35465 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
35466 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
35467 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
35468 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
35469 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
35470 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
35471 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
35472 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
35473 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
35475 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
35476 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
35477 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
35478 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
35480 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
35481 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
35482 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
35483 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
35484 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
35485 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
35486 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
35487 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
35488 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
35489 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
35490 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
35491 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
35492 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
35495 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
35496 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
35497 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
35498 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
35501 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
35502 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
35503 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
35504 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
35505 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
35506 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
35507 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
35511 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
35512 [version bump only]
35515 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
35516 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
35517 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
35518 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
35519 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
35521 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
35524 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
35525 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
35526 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
35527 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
35528 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
35529 o Better debugging for tls errors
35530 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
35531 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
35532 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
35533 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
35534 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
35535 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
35536 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
35537 o win32's close can't close a socket.
35540 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
35541 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
35542 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
35543 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
35544 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
35545 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
35546 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
35547 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
35548 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
35549 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
35550 just close the circ.
35551 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
35552 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
35553 (this was quite rare).
35556 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
35557 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
35558 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
35559 if you decrypted them correctly.
35560 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
35561 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
35562 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
35565 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
35566 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
35567 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
35568 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
35569 a second one and it works.
35570 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
35571 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
35572 alice would just have to wait to time out.
35573 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
35574 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
35575 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
35576 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
35577 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
35578 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
35579 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
35580 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
35581 i'd still like to find the bug though.
35582 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
35584 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
35588 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
35589 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
35590 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
35591 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
35592 he retries a couple of times
35593 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
35594 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
35595 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
35596 too long (they were sticking around forever).
35597 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
35601 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
35602 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
35603 - make hup work again
35604 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
35605 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
35606 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
35607 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
35608 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
35609 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
35611 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
35612 o changes from 0.0.5:
35613 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
35614 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
35615 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
35616 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
35617 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
35619 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
35620 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
35621 in-memory directories too
35624 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
35625 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
35628 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
35630 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
35631 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
35632 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
35633 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
35636 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
35637 [version bump only]
35640 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
35641 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
35643 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
35644 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
35645 but that aren't warnings
35648 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
35649 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
35650 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
35651 the dns farm to do it.
35652 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
35653 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
35655 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
35656 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
35657 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
35660 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
35661 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
35662 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
35663 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
35664 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
35665 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
35666 expect it to have a nickname.
35667 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
35668 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
35671 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
35672 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
35676 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
35677 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
35678 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
35679 - include missing header fcntl.h
35680 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
35681 - deal with hardware word alignment
35682 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
35683 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
35684 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
35685 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
35686 by kill -USR1 currently.
35687 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
35688 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
35689 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
35692 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
35693 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
35694 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
35697 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
35699 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
35700 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
35701 - And fix a few endian issues.
35704 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
35706 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
35707 try that circuit again: try a new one.
35708 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
35709 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
35710 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
35711 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
35712 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
35713 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
35715 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
35716 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
35717 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
35719 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
35721 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
35722 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
35723 side isn't reading right then.
35724 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
35725 RecommendedVersions
35726 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
35727 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
35728 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
35731 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
35733 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
35734 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
35737 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
35741 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
35743 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
35744 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
35745 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
35746 connection is finished.
35747 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
35748 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
35749 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
35750 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
35751 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
35752 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
35753 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
35754 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
35755 rather than warn and continue.
35756 - Make --version work
35757 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
35760 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
35762 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
35763 knows it's working.
35764 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
35765 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
35767 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
35768 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
35769 so you can collect coredumps there.
35771 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
35772 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
35773 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
35774 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
35775 dns cache actually gets populated.
35776 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
35777 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
35778 end cell down it first.
35779 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
35780 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
35783 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
35785 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
35786 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
35788 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
35789 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
35790 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
35791 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
35792 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
35793 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
35795 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
35797 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
35798 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
35799 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
35800 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
35801 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
35802 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
35804 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
35805 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
35808 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
35810 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
35811 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
35812 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
35813 tor. It even has a man page.
35814 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
35815 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
35816 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
35817 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
35819 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
35821 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
35824 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
35826 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
35827 it, apt-getters. :)
35828 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
35829 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
35830 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
35831 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
35832 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
35833 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
35834 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
35835 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
35836 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
35837 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
35838 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
35840 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
35841 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
35844 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
35846 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
35847 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
35850 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
35852 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
35853 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
35854 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
35855 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
35856 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
35857 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
35858 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
35859 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
35860 logfile so you know it's working.
35861 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
35862 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
35865 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
35867 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
35868 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
35869 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
35872 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
35874 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
35875 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
35876 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
35879 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
35880 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
35881 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
35883 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
35884 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
35886 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
35887 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
35888 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
35890 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
35891 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
35895 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
35897 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
35898 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
35899 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
35902 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
35903 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
35904 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
35905 - Add port ranges to exit policies
35906 - Add a conservative default exit policy
35907 - Warn if you're running tor as root
35908 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
35909 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
35910 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
35911 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
35913 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
35916 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
35917 o Robustness and bugfixes:
35918 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
35919 really screw things up.
35920 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
35922 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
35923 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
35925 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
35926 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
35927 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
35928 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
35929 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
35930 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
35933 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
35936 - Change default loglevel to warn.
35937 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
35938 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
35940 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
35943 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
35944 o Robustness and bugfixes:
35945 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
35946 - to get ownership/permissions right
35947 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
35948 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
35949 pull down a directory again
35950 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
35951 causing server crashes
35952 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
35953 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
35954 - exit if bind() fails
35955 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
35956 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
35957 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
35958 - fix minor bias in PRNG
35959 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
35962 - Wrote the design document (woo)
35964 o Circuit building and exit policies:
35965 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
35967 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
35968 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
35969 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
35970 exists, rather than failing
35971 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
35972 which AP connections are standing by
35973 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
35974 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
35975 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
35977 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
35978 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
35981 - APPort is now called SocksPort
35982 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
35984 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
35985 hardcoded (for dirservers)
35986 - Reloads config on HUP
35987 - Usage info on -h or --help
35988 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
35991 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
35992 o General stability:
35993 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
35994 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
35995 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
35996 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
35997 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
35998 to take down the network when I approve a new router
35999 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
36002 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
36003 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
36005 o Autoconf improvements:
36006 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
36007 - Make install now works
36008 - create var/lib/tor on make install
36009 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
36010 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
36012 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
36013 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
36014 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
36015 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup