1 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
2 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
3 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
4 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
7 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
8 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
9 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
10 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
11 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
12 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
14 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
15 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
16 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
17 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
18 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
19 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
20 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
22 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
23 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
24 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
25 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
26 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
27 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
28 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
29 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
30 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
31 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
32 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
34 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
35 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
36 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
38 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
39 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
40 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
41 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
43 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
44 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
45 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
46 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
47 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
48 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
49 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
50 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
51 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
52 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
53 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
54 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
55 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
56 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
57 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
58 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
61 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
62 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
63 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
64 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
65 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
68 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
69 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
70 options. Closes bug 4748.
73 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
74 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
75 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
76 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
77 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
81 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
82 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
84 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
85 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
86 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
87 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
88 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
89 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
90 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
91 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
92 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
95 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
96 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
97 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
98 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
99 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
100 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
101 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
102 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
105 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
106 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
107 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
108 case for flushing marked connections.
109 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
110 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
111 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
112 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
113 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
114 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
115 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
116 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
117 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
118 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
119 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
120 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
121 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
122 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
123 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
124 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
125 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
126 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
127 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
128 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
129 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
130 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
131 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
132 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
133 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
135 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
136 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
137 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
141 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
142 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
143 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
144 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
145 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
146 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
147 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
148 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
149 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
150 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
151 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
152 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
153 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
154 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
155 Addresses ticket 5458.
156 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
158 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
159 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
160 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
163 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
164 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
165 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
169 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
170 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
171 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
172 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
173 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
174 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
175 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
176 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
177 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
178 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
179 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
182 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
183 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
186 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
187 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
190 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
191 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
192 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
193 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
194 that get us closer to a release candidate.
196 o Major bugfixes (general):
197 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
198 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
199 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
200 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
201 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
202 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
203 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
204 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
205 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
207 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
208 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
209 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
210 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
213 o Major bugfixes (clients):
214 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
215 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
216 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
217 which introduced predicted ports.
218 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
219 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
220 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
221 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
222 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
223 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
224 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
225 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
226 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
227 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
228 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 2.0.7-alpha.
229 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
230 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
232 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
233 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
234 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
235 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
236 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
237 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
238 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
239 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
240 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
241 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
242 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
246 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
247 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
248 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
249 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
250 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
251 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
252 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
253 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
254 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
255 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
256 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
257 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
258 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
259 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
261 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
262 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
263 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
264 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
265 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
266 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
267 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
268 sure. Closes bug 5139.
269 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
270 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
271 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
272 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
273 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
274 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
275 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
277 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
278 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
279 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
280 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
281 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
282 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
283 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
284 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
285 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
286 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
287 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
288 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
289 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
290 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
291 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
292 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
293 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
294 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
295 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
296 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
298 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
299 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
300 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
301 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
302 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
303 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
304 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
305 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
306 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
307 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
308 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
309 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
310 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
312 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
313 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
314 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
315 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
317 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
318 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
319 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
320 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
321 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
322 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
323 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
324 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
325 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
326 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
328 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
329 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
330 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
332 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
333 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
334 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
335 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
336 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
337 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
338 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
339 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
340 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
341 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
342 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
343 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
344 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
345 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
346 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
347 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
348 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
349 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
350 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
351 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
353 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
354 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
355 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
356 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
357 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
358 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
360 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
361 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
362 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
364 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
365 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
366 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
367 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
368 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
369 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
371 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
372 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
373 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
375 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
376 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
377 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
378 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
379 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
380 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
381 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
382 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
383 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
384 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
385 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
386 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
387 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
388 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
389 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
390 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
392 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
393 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
394 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
395 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
396 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
397 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
398 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
399 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
400 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
401 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
402 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
403 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
404 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
407 o Documentation fixes:
408 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
409 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
410 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
411 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
412 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
413 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
416 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
417 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
421 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
422 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
423 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
424 and fixes several crash bugs.
426 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
427 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
428 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
429 those packages and upgrade anyway.
431 o Directory authority changes:
432 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
433 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
437 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
438 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
439 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
440 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
441 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
442 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
443 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
444 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
445 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
446 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
447 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
448 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
449 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
450 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
451 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
452 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
453 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
454 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
455 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
456 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
457 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
458 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
459 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
460 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
461 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
462 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
463 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
466 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
467 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
468 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
469 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
471 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
472 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
474 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
475 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
476 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
477 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
478 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
479 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
480 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
481 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
484 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
485 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
486 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
487 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
488 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
489 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
490 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
491 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
492 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
493 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
494 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
495 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
496 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
497 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
498 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
499 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
500 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
501 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
502 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
503 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
504 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
505 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
506 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
507 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
508 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
509 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
510 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
511 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
512 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
513 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
514 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
515 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
516 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
517 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
518 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
519 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
520 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
521 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
522 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
523 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
524 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
525 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
526 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
527 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
528 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
529 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
531 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
532 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
533 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
534 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
535 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
536 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
537 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
538 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
539 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
540 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
541 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
542 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
543 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
544 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
545 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
548 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
549 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
550 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
551 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
553 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
556 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
557 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
558 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
559 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
560 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
561 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
562 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
565 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
566 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
567 the development branch build on Windows again.
569 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
570 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
571 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
572 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
573 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
574 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
575 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
576 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
577 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
578 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
579 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
580 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
581 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
582 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
583 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
585 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
586 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
587 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
588 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
589 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
591 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
592 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
593 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
594 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
595 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
596 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
599 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
600 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
601 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
602 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
603 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
604 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
605 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
606 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
607 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
610 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
611 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
612 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
613 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
617 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
618 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
619 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
620 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
622 o Directory authority changes:
623 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
627 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
628 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
629 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
630 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
632 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
633 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
634 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
635 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
637 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
638 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
639 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
641 o Major features (performance):
642 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
643 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
644 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
645 much faster than other AES implementations.
647 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
648 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
649 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
650 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
651 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
652 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
653 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
654 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
655 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
656 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
657 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
658 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
659 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
660 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
661 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
662 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
663 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
664 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
666 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
667 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
668 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
669 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
670 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
671 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
672 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
673 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
674 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
676 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
677 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
678 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
679 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
680 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
681 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
684 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
685 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
686 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
687 please let us know about it.
688 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
689 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
690 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
691 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
692 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
693 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
694 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
695 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
697 o Default torrc changes:
698 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
699 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
701 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
702 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
703 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
707 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
708 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
709 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
710 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
713 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
714 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
715 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
716 it would be a bad idea to start.
719 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
720 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
721 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
722 that get us closer to a release candidate.
724 o Directory authority changes:
725 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
728 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
729 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
730 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
731 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
732 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
733 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
734 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
735 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
736 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
737 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
738 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
739 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
740 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
741 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
742 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
743 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
745 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
746 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
747 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
748 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
749 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
750 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
751 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
752 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
753 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
754 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
755 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
756 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
758 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
759 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
760 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
761 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
762 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
764 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
765 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
766 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
767 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
768 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
769 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
770 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
771 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
772 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
773 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
774 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
775 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
776 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
777 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
778 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
779 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
780 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
781 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
782 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
783 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
784 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
785 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
788 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
789 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
790 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
791 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
792 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
793 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
794 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
795 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
796 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
797 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
798 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
799 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
800 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
801 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
802 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
803 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
804 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
807 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
808 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
809 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
812 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
813 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
814 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
815 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
818 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
819 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
821 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
822 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
823 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
824 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
825 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
826 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
827 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
828 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
829 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
830 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
831 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
832 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
835 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
836 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
837 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
838 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
839 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
840 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
841 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
844 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
845 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
846 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
847 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
848 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
849 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
850 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
851 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
852 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
853 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
855 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
856 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
857 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
858 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
859 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
860 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
861 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
862 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
863 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
866 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
867 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
868 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
872 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
873 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
874 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
875 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
876 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
877 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
880 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
881 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
882 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
883 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
884 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
885 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
886 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
887 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
889 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
890 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
891 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
892 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
893 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
894 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
895 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
896 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
898 o Major security workaround:
899 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
900 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
901 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
902 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
903 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
904 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
905 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
906 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
907 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
908 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
909 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
912 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
913 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
914 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
915 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
916 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
917 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
918 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
919 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
920 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
921 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
922 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
923 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
924 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
926 o Minor features (controller):
927 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
928 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
929 file. Resolves bug 1101.
930 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
931 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
932 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
933 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
934 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
935 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
937 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
938 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
939 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
940 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
942 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
943 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
944 circuit-status' control-port command.
946 o Minor features (directory authorities):
947 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
948 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
949 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
950 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
952 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
953 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
954 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
955 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
956 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
957 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
958 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies.
959 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
960 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
962 o Minor features (other):
963 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
964 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
965 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
966 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
967 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
968 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
969 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
970 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
972 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
973 them from the other auths.
974 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
975 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
976 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
977 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
979 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
981 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
982 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
983 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
984 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
985 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
986 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
987 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
988 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
989 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
990 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
991 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
992 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
993 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behaviour change can
994 be disabled using the new
995 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
996 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
997 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
998 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
999 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
1000 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
1001 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
1002 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
1003 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
1004 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
1005 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
1006 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
1008 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
1009 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
1010 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
1013 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
1014 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
1015 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
1017 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
1018 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
1019 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
1020 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
1021 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
1022 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
1023 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
1025 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
1026 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
1027 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
1028 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
1029 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
1030 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
1031 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
1032 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
1034 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
1035 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
1036 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
1037 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
1038 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
1039 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
1040 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
1041 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
1042 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
1045 o Minor bugfixes (other):
1046 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
1047 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
1048 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
1049 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
1050 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
1051 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
1052 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
1053 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
1054 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
1055 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
1056 accidentally been reverted.
1057 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
1058 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
1059 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
1060 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
1061 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
1062 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
1063 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
1064 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
1065 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
1066 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1067 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
1068 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
1069 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
1070 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
1071 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1072 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
1073 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1074 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
1075 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1078 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
1079 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
1080 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
1081 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
1082 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
1083 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
1084 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
1086 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1087 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
1088 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
1089 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
1090 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
1091 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
1092 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
1094 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
1095 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
1096 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
1097 invalid value, rather than just -1.
1098 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
1099 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
1100 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
1101 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
1102 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
1103 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
1104 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
1108 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
1109 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
1110 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
1112 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
1113 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
1114 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
1115 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
1116 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
1117 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
1118 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
1119 (which Tor does not do by default).
1121 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
1122 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
1123 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
1124 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
1125 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
1127 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
1131 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
1132 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
1133 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
1134 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
1137 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
1138 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
1139 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
1140 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
1141 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
1142 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
1143 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
1144 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
1145 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
1146 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
1147 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1150 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1153 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
1154 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
1155 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
1157 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
1158 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
1159 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
1160 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
1161 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
1162 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
1163 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
1164 (which Tor does not do by default).
1166 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
1167 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
1168 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
1169 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
1170 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
1172 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
1173 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
1174 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
1177 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
1178 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
1179 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
1180 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
1181 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
1183 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
1184 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
1187 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
1188 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
1189 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
1190 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
1191 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
1192 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
1193 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
1194 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
1196 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
1197 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
1198 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
1199 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
1200 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
1201 close based on processing a cell on it.
1202 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
1203 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
1204 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
1205 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1206 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
1207 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
1208 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1209 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
1210 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
1211 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
1212 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
1213 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
1214 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
1215 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
1216 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
1219 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
1220 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
1221 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
1222 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
1223 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
1224 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
1225 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
1227 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
1228 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
1229 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
1230 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
1231 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
1232 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1233 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
1234 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
1235 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1236 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
1237 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
1238 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
1239 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
1240 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1241 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
1242 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
1243 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
1244 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
1245 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1246 Reported by "troll_un".
1247 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
1248 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1249 Reported by "troll_un".
1250 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
1251 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
1252 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
1253 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
1256 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
1257 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
1258 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
1259 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
1260 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
1261 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
1262 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
1263 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
1264 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
1265 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
1266 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1268 o Packaging changes:
1269 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
1270 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
1273 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
1274 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
1275 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
1276 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
1277 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
1278 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
1279 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
1282 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
1283 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
1284 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
1285 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
1286 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
1287 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
1288 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
1289 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
1290 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
1291 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
1292 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
1293 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
1294 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
1295 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
1296 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
1297 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
1298 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
1299 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
1300 Resolves ticket 4526.
1301 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
1302 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
1303 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
1304 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
1305 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
1306 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
1307 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
1308 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
1309 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
1310 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
1311 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
1312 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
1313 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
1314 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
1315 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
1316 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
1319 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
1320 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
1321 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
1322 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
1323 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
1324 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
1325 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
1326 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
1327 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
1328 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
1330 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
1331 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
1332 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
1333 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
1334 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
1335 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
1336 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
1337 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
1338 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
1340 o Minor features (new/different config options):
1341 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
1342 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
1343 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
1344 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
1345 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
1346 Implements issue 933.
1347 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
1348 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
1349 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
1350 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
1351 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
1352 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
1353 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
1354 appending to the list.
1355 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
1356 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
1357 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
1358 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
1360 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
1361 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
1362 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
1363 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
1364 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
1365 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
1366 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
1367 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
1370 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
1371 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
1372 Resolves ticket 2474.
1373 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
1374 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
1375 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
1376 Required by fix for bug 3460.
1377 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
1378 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
1379 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
1380 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
1381 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
1382 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
1383 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
1384 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
1385 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
1387 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1388 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
1389 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
1391 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
1393 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
1394 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
1396 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
1397 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
1398 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
1399 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
1400 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
1401 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
1402 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
1404 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
1405 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
1406 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1407 Reported by "troll_un".
1408 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
1409 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1410 Reported by "troll_un".
1411 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
1412 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
1413 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
1414 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
1416 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
1417 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
1419 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
1420 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
1421 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
1422 with help from wanoskarnet.
1423 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
1424 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1427 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
1428 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
1429 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
1430 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1432 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
1433 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
1434 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
1435 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
1436 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
1437 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
1438 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
1439 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
1442 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
1443 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
1444 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
1445 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
1446 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
1447 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
1448 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
1449 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
1450 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
1453 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
1454 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
1455 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
1456 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
1458 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
1459 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
1460 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
1461 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1462 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
1463 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
1464 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
1465 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
1466 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
1467 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
1468 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
1469 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
1470 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
1471 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
1472 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
1473 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
1474 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
1475 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
1476 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
1477 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
1478 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
1479 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
1480 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
1481 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
1484 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
1485 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
1486 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
1487 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
1488 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
1489 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1490 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
1491 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
1494 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1495 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
1496 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
1497 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
1498 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
1499 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
1500 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
1501 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
1502 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
1503 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
1504 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
1505 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
1506 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
1507 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
1508 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
1510 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
1511 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
1512 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
1513 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
1514 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1515 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
1516 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
1517 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1518 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
1519 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
1520 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
1521 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
1522 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
1523 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1524 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
1525 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
1526 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1528 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
1529 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
1530 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
1531 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
1532 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1534 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
1535 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
1536 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
1538 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
1539 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
1540 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
1542 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
1543 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
1545 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
1546 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1549 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
1550 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
1551 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
1552 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
1553 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
1554 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
1555 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
1556 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
1557 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
1558 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
1559 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
1560 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
1561 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
1562 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
1564 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
1565 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
1566 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1568 o Packaging changes:
1569 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
1570 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
1572 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1573 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
1574 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
1575 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
1576 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
1577 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
1578 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
1579 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
1580 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
1583 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
1585 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
1586 ./src/test/bench binary.
1587 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
1588 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
1591 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
1592 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
1593 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
1597 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
1598 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
1599 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
1600 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
1601 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
1602 close based on processing a cell on it.
1603 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
1604 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
1605 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1606 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
1607 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
1608 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
1609 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
1610 cells were introduced.
1613 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
1614 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
1617 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
1618 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
1619 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
1620 users. Everybody should upgrade.
1622 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
1623 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
1626 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
1627 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
1628 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
1629 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
1630 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
1631 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
1633 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
1634 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
1635 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
1636 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
1637 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
1638 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
1639 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
1640 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
1641 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
1642 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
1643 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
1644 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
1645 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
1646 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
1647 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
1648 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
1649 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
1650 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
1653 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1654 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
1655 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
1656 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
1657 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
1658 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
1659 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
1660 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
1661 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
1662 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
1663 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
1664 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
1665 Partly fixes bug 3825.
1666 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
1667 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
1668 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
1669 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
1670 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
1671 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
1672 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
1674 o Major bugfixes (other):
1675 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
1676 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
1677 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
1678 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1679 Found by "frosty_un".
1680 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
1681 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
1682 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
1683 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
1684 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
1685 immensely in tracking this bug down.
1686 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
1687 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
1690 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
1691 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
1692 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
1693 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
1694 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
1695 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
1696 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
1697 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
1698 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
1699 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
1700 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
1701 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
1702 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
1703 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1704 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
1705 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
1706 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
1707 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
1708 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
1709 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
1710 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
1712 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
1713 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
1714 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
1715 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1716 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
1717 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
1718 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
1719 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
1720 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
1721 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
1722 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
1725 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
1726 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
1727 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
1728 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
1729 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
1730 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
1731 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
1732 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
1733 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
1734 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
1735 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
1736 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
1737 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
1738 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1740 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1741 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
1742 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
1743 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
1744 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
1745 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
1746 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
1747 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
1750 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
1751 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
1752 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
1754 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
1755 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
1756 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
1757 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
1758 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
1759 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
1760 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
1761 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
1762 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
1763 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
1764 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
1765 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
1766 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
1768 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
1769 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
1770 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
1771 currently connected to them.
1773 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
1774 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
1775 remain; see for example proposal 188.
1777 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
1778 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
1779 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
1780 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
1781 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
1782 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
1783 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
1784 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
1785 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
1786 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
1787 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
1788 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
1789 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
1790 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
1791 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
1792 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
1793 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
1794 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
1797 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
1798 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
1799 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
1800 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
1801 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
1802 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
1803 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
1804 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
1805 when bridges were introduced.
1806 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
1807 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
1808 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
1809 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1810 Found by "frosty_un".
1813 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
1814 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
1816 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
1817 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
1818 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
1819 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
1820 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
1821 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
1822 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
1825 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
1826 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
1827 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
1828 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
1829 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
1830 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
1831 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
1832 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
1833 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
1834 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
1835 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
1836 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
1837 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
1838 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
1839 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
1840 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
1841 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
1842 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
1844 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
1845 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
1846 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
1847 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1848 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
1849 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
1850 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
1851 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
1852 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
1853 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
1854 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
1855 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1858 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
1859 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
1860 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
1861 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1864 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
1865 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
1866 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
1867 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
1868 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
1870 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
1871 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
1872 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
1873 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
1874 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
1875 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
1876 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
1877 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
1878 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
1879 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
1881 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
1882 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
1883 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
1884 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
1885 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
1886 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
1887 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
1888 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
1889 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
1890 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
1891 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
1892 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
1893 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
1894 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
1895 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1896 Found by "frosty_un".
1897 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
1898 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
1899 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
1900 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
1901 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
1902 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
1903 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
1904 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
1905 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
1906 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
1907 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
1908 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
1909 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1910 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
1911 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
1912 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
1913 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
1914 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
1915 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
1917 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
1918 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
1919 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
1920 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
1921 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
1922 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
1923 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
1924 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
1926 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
1927 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
1928 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
1929 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
1930 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
1931 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
1932 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
1933 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
1934 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
1935 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
1936 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
1937 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
1939 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
1940 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1941 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
1942 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1943 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
1944 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1945 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
1946 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
1947 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
1949 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
1951 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
1952 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
1953 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
1954 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1955 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
1956 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
1957 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
1958 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
1960 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
1961 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
1962 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
1963 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
1964 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
1966 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
1967 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
1968 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
1969 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
1970 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
1973 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
1974 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
1975 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
1976 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
1977 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
1980 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
1981 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
1982 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
1983 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
1984 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
1985 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
1986 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
1987 when bridges were introduced.
1990 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
1991 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
1992 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1994 o Major features (networking):
1995 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
1996 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
1997 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
1998 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
1999 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
2003 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
2004 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
2005 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
2007 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
2008 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
2009 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
2010 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
2011 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2013 o Minor features (diagnostics):
2014 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
2015 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
2018 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
2019 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
2020 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
2021 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
2022 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
2023 listed in the network consensus and republish.
2025 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
2026 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
2027 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
2028 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2030 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
2031 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
2032 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
2033 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
2034 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
2035 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
2036 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
2037 that these attacks is infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
2038 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
2039 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
2040 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
2042 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
2043 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
2044 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
2045 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
2046 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
2047 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
2048 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
2049 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
2050 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
2051 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2053 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
2054 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
2055 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
2056 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
2057 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
2058 fixes part of bug 2442.
2059 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
2060 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
2061 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
2063 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
2064 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
2065 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
2066 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
2067 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2069 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
2070 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
2071 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
2072 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
2073 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
2076 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
2077 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
2078 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
2082 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
2083 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
2084 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
2085 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
2086 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
2087 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
2088 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
2091 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
2092 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
2093 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
2094 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
2095 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
2096 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
2097 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
2100 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
2101 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
2102 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
2103 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
2104 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
2105 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
2106 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
2107 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
2108 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2111 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
2112 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
2115 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
2116 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
2117 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
2118 reachable from Iran again.
2121 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
2122 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
2123 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2125 o Minor features (security):
2126 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
2127 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
2128 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
2129 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
2130 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
2131 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
2132 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
2133 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
2134 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
2135 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
2138 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
2139 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
2140 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
2141 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
2142 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
2143 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
2144 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
2145 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
2146 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2148 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
2149 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
2150 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
2151 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
2152 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
2154 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
2155 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
2156 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
2157 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
2158 fixes part of bug 2442.
2159 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
2160 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
2161 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
2163 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
2164 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
2165 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
2166 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
2167 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2170 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
2171 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
2172 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
2173 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
2174 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
2175 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
2178 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
2179 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
2180 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
2181 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
2182 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
2183 bufferevent-based networking backend.
2185 o Major features (stream isolation):
2186 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
2187 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
2188 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
2189 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
2190 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
2191 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
2192 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
2193 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
2194 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
2195 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
2196 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
2197 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
2198 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
2199 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
2201 o Major features (other):
2202 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
2203 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
2204 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
2205 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
2206 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
2207 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
2208 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
2209 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
2210 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
2211 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
2212 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
2213 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
2214 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
2216 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
2217 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
2219 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
2220 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
2221 Fixes part of bug 3752.
2222 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
2223 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
2224 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
2225 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
2226 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
2227 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
2228 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
2229 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
2230 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
2231 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
2232 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
2233 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
2234 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
2235 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
2236 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
2237 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
2238 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
2240 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
2241 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
2242 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
2243 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
2244 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
2245 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
2248 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
2249 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
2250 user. Implements ticket 1692.
2251 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
2252 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
2253 best copy data out of a buffer.
2254 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
2255 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
2256 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
2258 o Minor features (build compatibility):
2259 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
2260 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
2261 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
2263 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
2264 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2266 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
2267 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
2268 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
2269 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
2270 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
2271 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
2272 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2274 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
2275 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
2276 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
2277 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
2278 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
2280 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
2281 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
2282 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
2285 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
2286 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
2287 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
2288 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
2289 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
2290 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
2291 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
2292 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
2293 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
2294 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
2295 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
2296 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2297 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
2298 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
2299 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
2300 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
2301 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
2302 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
2303 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
2306 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2307 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
2308 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
2312 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
2313 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
2314 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
2315 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
2316 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
2317 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
2320 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
2321 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
2322 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
2323 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
2324 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
2325 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
2326 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
2327 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
2328 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
2329 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
2331 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
2332 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
2333 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
2334 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
2335 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
2336 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
2337 many many other features and bugfixes.
2340 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
2341 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
2342 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
2345 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
2346 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
2347 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
2348 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
2349 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
2350 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
2351 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
2352 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
2355 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2358 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
2359 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
2360 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2361 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
2362 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
2363 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
2364 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
2365 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
2366 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
2367 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
2368 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
2369 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
2370 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
2371 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2372 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
2373 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
2374 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
2375 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
2379 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
2380 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
2381 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
2382 up a variety of recently introduced features.
2385 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
2386 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
2387 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
2388 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
2389 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
2390 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
2391 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
2392 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
2393 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
2394 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
2395 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
2396 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
2397 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
2398 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
2399 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
2400 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
2402 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
2403 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
2404 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
2405 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
2406 order. Fixes bug 2798.
2407 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
2408 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
2409 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
2410 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
2411 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
2412 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
2416 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
2417 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
2418 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
2419 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
2421 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
2422 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
2423 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
2424 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
2425 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
2426 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
2427 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
2428 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
2429 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
2430 Implements ticket 3264.
2431 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
2432 implements ticket 3439.
2434 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
2435 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
2436 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
2437 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
2438 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
2439 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
2440 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
2441 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
2442 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
2443 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
2444 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
2445 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
2446 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
2447 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
2448 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
2449 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
2450 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
2451 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
2452 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
2453 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
2454 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
2455 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
2456 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
2457 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
2458 fails. Spotted by coverity.
2459 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
2460 present. Found by coverity.
2461 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
2462 a directory cache that provides them.
2464 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
2465 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
2466 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
2467 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
2468 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
2469 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
2471 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
2472 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
2473 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
2474 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
2475 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
2476 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2477 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
2478 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
2480 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2481 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
2482 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
2483 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
2484 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
2485 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
2486 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
2488 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
2492 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
2493 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
2494 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
2497 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
2498 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
2499 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
2500 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
2503 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
2504 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
2505 discovered by katmagic.
2506 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
2507 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
2508 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
2509 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2510 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
2511 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
2512 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
2513 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
2514 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
2515 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
2516 fixes part of bug 3465.
2517 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
2518 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
2522 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2525 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
2526 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
2527 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
2528 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
2529 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
2532 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
2533 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
2534 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
2535 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
2536 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
2539 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
2540 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
2541 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
2542 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
2543 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
2544 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
2547 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
2548 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
2549 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
2550 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2551 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
2552 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
2553 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
2554 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
2555 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
2556 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
2557 fixes part of bug 3407.
2558 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
2559 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
2560 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
2561 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
2562 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
2563 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
2564 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
2565 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
2566 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
2567 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
2569 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
2570 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
2571 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
2572 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
2575 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2577 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2578 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
2579 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
2581 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
2583 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
2586 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
2587 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
2588 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
2589 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
2590 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
2591 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
2595 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
2596 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
2597 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
2598 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
2599 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
2600 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
2601 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
2603 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
2604 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2605 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
2606 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
2607 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
2608 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
2609 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
2610 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
2611 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
2612 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
2613 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
2614 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
2615 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
2616 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
2617 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
2618 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
2619 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
2620 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
2621 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
2625 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
2626 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
2627 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
2628 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
2629 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
2630 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
2631 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
2632 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
2633 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
2637 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
2638 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
2639 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
2641 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
2643 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
2644 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
2645 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
2646 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
2647 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2648 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
2649 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
2650 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
2651 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
2653 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
2654 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
2655 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
2656 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
2657 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
2658 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
2660 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
2661 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
2663 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
2664 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
2665 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2668 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
2669 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
2670 Resolves ticket 3252.
2671 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
2672 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
2673 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
2674 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
2675 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
2676 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
2679 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
2680 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
2683 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
2684 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
2685 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
2688 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
2689 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2690 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
2691 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
2692 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
2695 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
2696 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2697 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
2698 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
2699 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
2700 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
2701 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
2702 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
2703 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
2707 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
2708 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
2709 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
2710 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
2711 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
2713 o Security/privacy fixes:
2714 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
2715 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
2716 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
2717 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
2718 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
2719 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
2720 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
2721 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
2722 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
2723 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
2724 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
2725 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
2726 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
2727 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
2728 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2731 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
2732 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
2733 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
2734 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
2735 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
2736 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
2737 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
2738 part of ticket 3076.
2739 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
2740 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
2741 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
2745 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
2746 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
2747 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
2748 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
2749 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
2750 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
2751 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
2752 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
2754 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
2755 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
2756 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
2757 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
2758 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
2759 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
2760 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
2761 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
2762 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
2763 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
2764 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
2765 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
2766 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2769 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
2770 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
2771 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
2772 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
2773 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
2774 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
2775 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
2777 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
2778 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
2779 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
2780 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
2781 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
2782 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
2783 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
2784 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
2785 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
2786 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
2787 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
2788 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
2789 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
2790 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
2791 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
2792 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
2794 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
2795 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
2797 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
2798 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
2800 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
2801 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
2803 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
2804 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
2805 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2807 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
2808 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
2809 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
2810 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
2811 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2812 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
2813 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
2814 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
2815 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
2816 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
2817 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
2819 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
2820 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
2821 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
2822 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
2823 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
2824 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
2825 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
2826 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
2827 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
2828 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
2829 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2830 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
2831 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
2835 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
2836 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
2837 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
2841 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
2842 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
2843 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
2844 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
2845 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
2846 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
2848 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
2849 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
2850 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
2853 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
2854 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
2855 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
2856 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
2857 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
2858 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
2859 zero-copy transports where available.
2860 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
2861 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
2862 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
2863 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
2864 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
2865 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
2866 debug it as it breaks.
2867 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
2868 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
2869 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
2870 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
2871 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
2872 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
2873 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
2874 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
2875 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
2876 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
2877 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
2878 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
2879 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
2880 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
2881 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
2882 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
2883 PortForwarding option.
2884 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
2885 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
2886 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
2887 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
2888 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
2889 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
2890 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
2893 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
2894 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
2895 Implements enhancement 1668.
2896 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
2898 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
2899 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
2900 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
2901 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
2902 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
2903 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
2904 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
2906 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
2907 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
2908 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
2909 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
2910 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
2911 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
2912 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
2914 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
2915 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
2916 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
2917 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
2918 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
2919 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
2920 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
2922 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
2923 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
2924 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
2925 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
2926 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2927 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
2928 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
2929 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
2930 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
2931 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
2932 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
2933 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
2934 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
2935 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
2936 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
2939 o Minor features (controller):
2940 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
2941 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
2942 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
2943 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
2944 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
2945 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
2946 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
2949 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
2950 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
2951 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
2952 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
2953 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
2954 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
2955 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
2956 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
2958 o Minor packaging issues:
2959 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
2960 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
2962 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2963 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
2964 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
2965 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
2966 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
2967 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
2968 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
2969 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
2970 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
2971 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
2972 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
2973 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
2974 our library structure used to force them to link it.
2977 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
2978 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
2979 are no longer in use as servers.
2981 o Documentation fixes:
2982 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
2983 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
2984 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
2988 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
2989 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
2990 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
2991 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
2992 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
2993 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
2994 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
2995 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
2996 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
2997 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
3000 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
3001 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
3002 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
3003 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
3004 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
3005 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
3006 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
3007 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
3008 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
3009 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3010 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
3011 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
3012 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3013 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
3014 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
3015 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
3017 o Security and stability fixes:
3018 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
3019 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
3020 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
3021 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
3022 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
3023 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
3024 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
3025 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
3026 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
3027 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
3028 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
3029 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
3030 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3031 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
3032 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
3033 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3036 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
3037 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
3038 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
3039 contributions to the network.
3041 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
3042 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
3043 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
3044 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
3045 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
3046 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
3047 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
3048 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
3049 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
3050 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
3051 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
3052 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
3053 connections to directory servers.
3054 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
3055 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
3056 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
3057 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
3058 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
3059 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
3060 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
3061 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
3062 information, or fetch directory information.
3063 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
3064 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
3065 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
3066 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
3067 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
3068 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
3069 unless you really want your Tor to break.
3070 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
3071 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
3072 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
3073 - When StrictNodes is 1:
3074 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
3075 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
3076 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
3077 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
3078 reachability self-tests.
3079 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
3080 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
3081 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
3082 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
3083 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3084 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
3085 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
3087 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
3088 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3089 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
3090 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
3091 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
3092 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3093 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
3094 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
3095 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
3096 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
3097 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
3100 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
3101 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
3102 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
3103 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
3104 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
3105 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
3106 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
3107 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
3108 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
3109 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
3110 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
3111 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3112 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
3113 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
3114 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
3115 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
3116 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
3118 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
3119 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
3120 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
3121 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
3122 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3123 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
3124 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3125 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
3126 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3127 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
3128 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
3129 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
3130 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
3131 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
3132 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
3133 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
3134 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
3135 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
3136 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
3137 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
3140 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
3141 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
3142 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
3143 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
3144 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
3145 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
3146 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
3147 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
3148 Required by fix for bug 3000.
3149 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
3150 by fix for bug 3000.
3151 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
3152 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
3154 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3155 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
3156 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
3157 send a body too). Since only server versions before
3158 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
3159 keep the workaround in place.
3160 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
3161 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
3162 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
3163 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
3164 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
3165 want to do it differently.
3166 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
3167 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
3168 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
3169 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
3170 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
3174 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
3175 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
3176 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
3177 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
3178 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
3181 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
3182 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
3183 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
3184 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
3185 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
3187 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
3188 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
3189 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
3190 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
3191 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
3192 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
3193 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
3194 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
3195 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
3196 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
3197 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
3198 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
3201 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
3202 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
3203 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
3204 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
3205 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
3206 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
3207 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
3209 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
3210 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
3211 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
3212 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
3213 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
3214 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
3215 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
3216 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
3217 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
3218 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
3219 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
3220 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
3221 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
3222 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
3223 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
3224 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
3225 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
3226 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
3227 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
3228 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
3229 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
3230 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
3231 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3234 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
3236 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
3237 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
3238 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
3240 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
3241 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
3242 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
3243 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
3245 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
3246 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
3247 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
3248 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3251 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
3252 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
3254 o Documentation changes:
3255 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
3256 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
3258 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
3261 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
3262 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
3263 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
3264 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
3265 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
3266 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
3269 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
3270 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
3271 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
3272 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
3273 the rest of bug 1074.
3274 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
3275 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
3276 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3277 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
3278 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
3279 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
3280 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3281 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
3282 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
3283 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
3284 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
3285 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
3286 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
3287 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3290 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
3291 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
3292 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
3293 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
3294 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
3295 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
3296 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
3297 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
3298 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
3299 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
3300 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
3301 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
3302 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
3303 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
3305 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
3306 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
3307 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
3308 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
3309 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
3310 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
3312 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
3313 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
3314 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
3315 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
3316 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
3317 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
3318 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
3319 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
3320 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
3322 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
3323 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
3324 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
3325 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
3326 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
3327 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
3328 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
3329 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
3330 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
3331 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
3332 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
3333 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
3334 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
3335 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3336 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
3337 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
3339 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
3340 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
3341 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
3342 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
3343 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
3344 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
3346 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
3347 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
3348 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
3350 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
3351 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
3352 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
3353 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
3354 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
3355 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
3356 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
3358 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
3359 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
3360 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
3361 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
3362 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
3366 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
3367 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
3368 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
3369 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
3370 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
3371 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
3372 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
3373 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
3374 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
3375 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
3376 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
3377 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
3379 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3381 o Minor features (log subsystem):
3382 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
3383 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
3384 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
3386 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
3387 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
3389 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
3390 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
3391 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
3394 o Packaging changes:
3395 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
3396 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
3397 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
3400 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
3401 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
3402 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
3403 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
3404 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
3405 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
3408 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
3409 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
3410 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
3411 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
3412 the rest of bug 1074.
3413 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
3414 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3416 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
3417 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
3418 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
3419 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
3420 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
3421 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
3422 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3425 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
3427 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3430 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
3431 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
3432 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
3433 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
3434 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
3435 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
3436 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
3437 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
3438 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
3439 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
3440 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3442 o Packaging changes:
3443 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
3444 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
3445 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
3446 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
3447 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
3448 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
3451 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
3452 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
3453 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
3454 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
3455 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
3456 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
3459 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
3460 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3462 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
3463 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
3464 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
3465 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
3468 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
3470 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
3471 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
3472 Implements ticket 2432.
3475 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
3476 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
3477 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
3480 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
3481 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
3482 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
3483 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
3484 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
3485 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
3487 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
3488 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
3489 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
3490 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
3492 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
3493 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
3494 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
3495 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
3496 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
3497 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
3498 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
3499 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
3501 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
3502 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
3503 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
3504 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
3505 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
3506 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
3507 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
3508 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
3509 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
3510 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
3511 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
3512 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
3513 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
3514 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
3517 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
3518 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
3519 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
3520 bug reported by doorss.
3521 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
3522 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
3523 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3524 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
3525 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
3527 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
3528 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
3529 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
3530 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
3531 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3533 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
3534 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3535 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
3537 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
3538 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
3539 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
3540 Automake 1.7 or later.
3541 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
3542 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
3543 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
3544 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
3546 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
3547 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
3548 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
3551 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
3552 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
3553 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
3554 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
3556 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
3557 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
3558 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
3559 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
3560 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
3561 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
3562 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
3563 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
3564 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
3566 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
3567 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
3568 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
3571 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
3572 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
3573 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
3574 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
3575 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
3576 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
3577 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
3578 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
3579 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
3580 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
3581 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
3582 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
3583 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
3585 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
3586 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
3590 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
3591 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
3592 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
3593 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
3594 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
3596 o Major bugfixes (security):
3597 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
3598 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
3599 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
3601 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
3602 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
3603 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
3604 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
3605 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
3606 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
3607 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
3608 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
3610 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
3611 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
3612 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
3613 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
3614 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
3615 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
3616 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
3617 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
3618 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
3619 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
3620 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
3621 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
3622 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
3623 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
3626 o Minor bugfixes (other):
3627 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
3628 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
3629 bug reported by doorss.
3630 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
3631 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
3632 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3633 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
3634 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
3636 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
3637 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
3638 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
3639 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
3640 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3641 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
3642 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
3643 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
3644 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
3647 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3648 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
3651 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
3652 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
3653 Automake 1.7 or later.
3656 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
3657 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
3658 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
3659 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
3660 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
3663 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
3664 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
3665 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
3666 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
3667 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
3668 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
3669 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
3670 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
3671 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
3672 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
3673 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
3675 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
3676 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
3677 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
3678 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
3680 o Directory authority changes:
3681 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
3684 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
3685 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
3686 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
3687 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
3688 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
3689 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3690 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
3691 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
3692 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
3695 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3696 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
3697 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
3698 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
3699 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
3700 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
3701 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
3702 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
3703 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
3704 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
3708 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
3709 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
3710 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
3711 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
3715 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
3716 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
3717 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
3718 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
3720 o Directory authority changes:
3721 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
3724 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3727 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
3728 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
3729 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
3730 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
3731 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
3734 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
3735 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
3736 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
3737 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
3738 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3739 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
3740 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
3741 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
3742 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
3743 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
3744 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
3745 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
3746 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
3747 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
3748 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
3749 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
3750 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
3751 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
3752 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
3753 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
3754 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
3755 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
3756 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
3759 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
3760 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
3761 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
3762 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
3764 o New directory authorities:
3765 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
3769 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
3770 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
3771 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
3773 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
3774 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
3775 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
3776 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
3777 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
3778 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
3780 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
3781 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
3782 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
3785 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
3786 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
3787 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
3788 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
3789 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
3790 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
3791 Patch from mingw-san.
3794 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
3795 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
3796 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
3797 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
3798 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
3799 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
3802 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
3803 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
3804 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
3807 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
3808 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
3809 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
3810 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
3811 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3814 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
3815 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
3816 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
3817 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
3818 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
3819 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
3820 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
3821 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
3822 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
3825 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
3826 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
3827 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
3828 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
3829 to a stable release.
3832 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
3833 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
3834 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
3835 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
3836 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
3837 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
3838 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
3839 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
3840 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
3841 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
3842 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
3843 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
3844 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
3845 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
3846 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
3847 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
3848 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
3849 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
3850 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
3851 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
3852 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
3853 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
3854 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
3855 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
3856 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
3857 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
3858 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
3859 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
3860 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
3861 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
3862 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
3865 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
3866 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
3867 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
3868 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
3869 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
3870 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
3871 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
3872 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
3873 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
3874 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
3875 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
3876 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
3877 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
3878 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3879 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
3880 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
3881 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
3883 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
3884 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
3885 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
3886 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
3887 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
3889 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
3890 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
3891 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
3892 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
3895 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
3896 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
3897 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
3898 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
3899 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
3900 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
3901 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
3902 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3904 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
3905 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
3906 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
3907 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
3908 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
3909 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
3910 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
3911 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
3912 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
3913 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
3914 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
3915 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
3916 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
3917 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
3918 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
3921 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
3922 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
3923 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
3924 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
3925 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
3926 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
3927 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
3928 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
3929 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
3932 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
3933 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
3934 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
3935 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
3936 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
3938 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
3939 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
3940 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
3941 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
3942 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
3943 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
3944 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3945 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
3946 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
3947 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
3948 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
3949 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
3950 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
3951 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
3953 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
3954 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
3956 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
3957 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
3958 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
3959 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
3960 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
3961 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
3962 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
3963 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
3964 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
3965 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
3966 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
3967 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
3968 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
3969 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
3970 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
3971 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
3972 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
3973 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3975 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
3976 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
3977 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
3978 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
3979 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
3980 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
3981 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
3982 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
3983 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
3984 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
3985 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
3986 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
3987 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
3989 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
3990 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
3991 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
3992 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3995 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
3996 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
3997 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
3998 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
3999 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
4000 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
4001 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
4002 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
4003 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
4004 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
4005 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
4006 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
4007 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
4008 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
4009 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
4010 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
4011 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
4012 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
4013 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
4016 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
4017 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
4018 based on the time during which we were active and not in
4019 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
4020 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
4021 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
4022 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
4023 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4025 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
4026 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
4027 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
4028 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
4029 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
4030 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
4031 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
4032 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
4033 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
4034 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4037 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
4038 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
4039 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
4040 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
4042 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
4043 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
4044 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
4045 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
4046 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
4047 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
4048 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
4049 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
4050 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
4051 the longest-lived bug prize.
4052 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
4053 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
4054 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
4055 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
4056 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
4057 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
4059 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
4060 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
4061 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
4062 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
4063 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
4064 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
4068 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4069 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
4070 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
4071 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
4072 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
4073 got suppressed since the last warning.
4074 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
4075 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
4076 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
4077 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
4078 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
4079 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
4080 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
4081 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
4082 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
4083 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
4084 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
4085 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
4086 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
4087 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
4088 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
4089 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
4090 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
4091 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
4092 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
4094 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
4095 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
4096 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
4098 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
4099 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
4100 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
4101 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
4102 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
4103 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
4104 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
4105 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
4106 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
4107 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
4108 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
4109 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
4110 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
4111 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
4112 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
4114 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
4115 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
4116 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
4117 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
4118 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
4119 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4120 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
4122 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
4123 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
4124 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
4125 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
4126 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
4129 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
4130 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
4131 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
4132 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
4133 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
4134 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
4135 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
4136 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
4137 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
4138 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
4139 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
4140 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
4141 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
4142 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
4143 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
4144 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
4145 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
4146 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
4149 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
4152 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
4153 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
4154 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
4155 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
4156 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
4160 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
4161 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
4162 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
4163 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
4164 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
4165 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
4166 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
4167 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
4168 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
4169 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
4170 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
4171 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
4172 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
4173 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
4174 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
4175 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
4176 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
4179 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
4180 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
4181 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
4182 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
4183 they first get the Guard flag.
4184 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
4188 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4189 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
4190 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
4191 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
4192 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
4193 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
4194 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
4195 Patch from mingw-san.
4196 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
4197 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
4199 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
4200 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
4201 Implements enhancement 1790.
4203 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
4204 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
4205 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
4206 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
4207 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
4208 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
4209 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
4210 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
4211 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
4212 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
4213 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
4214 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
4215 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
4216 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
4217 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
4218 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
4219 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
4220 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
4221 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
4222 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
4224 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
4225 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
4226 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
4227 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
4228 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
4229 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
4230 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
4231 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
4232 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
4233 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
4234 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
4235 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
4236 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
4238 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
4239 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
4240 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
4241 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
4242 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
4243 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4245 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
4246 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
4247 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
4248 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
4249 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
4250 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
4251 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
4252 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4253 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
4254 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
4255 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
4256 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
4258 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
4259 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
4260 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
4261 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
4262 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
4263 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
4264 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
4266 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
4268 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
4269 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4270 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
4271 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
4272 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
4273 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
4275 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4276 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
4277 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
4278 structures and defines in or.h for now.
4279 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
4280 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
4281 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
4282 statistics code to be more easily tested.
4283 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
4284 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
4285 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
4288 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
4289 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
4290 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
4291 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
4292 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
4293 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
4297 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
4298 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
4299 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
4300 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
4301 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
4302 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
4303 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
4304 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
4305 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
4306 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
4307 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
4308 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
4309 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
4311 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
4312 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
4313 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
4314 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
4315 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
4316 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
4317 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
4318 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
4319 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
4320 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
4321 can be controlled by the consensus.
4324 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
4325 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
4326 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
4327 more accurate data for many African countries.
4328 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
4329 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
4330 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
4331 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
4332 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
4333 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
4334 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
4335 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
4336 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
4337 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
4338 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
4339 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
4341 o New directory authorities:
4342 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
4346 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
4347 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
4348 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
4349 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
4350 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
4351 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
4352 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
4353 what should go in a patch.
4354 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
4355 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
4356 over our stored history.
4357 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
4358 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
4359 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
4360 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
4361 file. Fixes bug 1296.
4362 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
4363 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
4364 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
4368 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
4370 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
4371 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
4372 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
4373 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
4374 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
4375 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
4376 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
4377 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
4378 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
4379 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
4380 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
4381 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4382 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
4383 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
4384 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
4385 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
4386 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
4387 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
4388 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
4389 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
4390 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
4391 two-hop circuits are actually created.
4392 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
4393 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4394 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
4395 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4398 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
4399 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
4400 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
4401 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
4402 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
4404 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
4405 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
4408 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
4409 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
4410 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
4411 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
4412 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
4413 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
4414 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
4415 their directory fetches over TLS).
4416 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
4417 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
4418 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
4419 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
4420 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
4421 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
4422 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
4423 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
4426 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
4427 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
4431 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
4432 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4433 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
4434 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
4435 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
4436 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
4437 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4440 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
4441 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
4442 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
4443 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
4444 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
4447 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
4448 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
4449 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
4450 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
4451 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
4452 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
4453 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
4454 their directory fetches over TLS).
4457 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
4458 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
4460 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
4461 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
4462 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
4463 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
4464 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
4465 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
4466 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
4467 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
4468 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
4469 hour of their uptime.
4472 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
4473 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
4474 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
4478 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
4479 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
4480 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
4481 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
4482 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
4483 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
4485 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
4486 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
4487 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
4489 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
4490 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
4494 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
4495 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
4496 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
4500 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
4501 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
4502 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
4505 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
4506 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
4507 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
4508 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
4509 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
4510 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
4511 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
4512 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
4513 about the option without breaking older ones.
4514 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
4515 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
4516 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
4517 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
4520 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
4521 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
4522 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
4523 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
4525 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
4526 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
4527 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
4530 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
4531 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
4533 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
4534 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
4535 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
4536 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
4537 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
4538 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
4539 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4540 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
4541 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
4542 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
4543 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
4546 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
4547 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4548 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
4549 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
4550 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
4551 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
4552 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4555 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
4556 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
4557 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
4558 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
4559 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
4560 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
4563 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
4564 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
4565 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
4566 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
4568 o Major features (performance):
4569 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
4570 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
4571 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
4572 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
4573 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
4574 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
4575 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
4577 o Minor features (performance):
4578 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
4579 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
4580 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
4581 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
4582 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
4586 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
4587 speeds up the build considerably.
4589 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
4590 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
4591 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4592 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
4593 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4594 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
4595 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
4596 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4598 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
4599 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
4600 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
4602 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
4603 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
4604 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
4605 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
4607 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4608 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
4609 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
4610 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
4611 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
4612 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
4615 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
4616 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
4617 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
4619 o Directory authority changes:
4620 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
4621 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
4622 service directory authority) from the list.
4625 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
4626 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
4627 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
4628 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
4629 libraries in a security patch.
4630 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
4631 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
4632 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
4633 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
4635 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
4636 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
4637 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
4638 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
4639 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
4640 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
4641 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
4644 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
4645 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
4646 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
4647 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
4648 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
4649 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
4650 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
4651 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
4652 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
4653 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
4654 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
4655 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
4656 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
4658 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
4659 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
4660 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
4661 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
4662 control-spec.txt said they were.
4663 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
4664 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
4665 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
4666 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
4667 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4669 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
4670 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
4671 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
4673 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
4674 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
4675 iPhone SDK versions.
4676 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
4677 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
4678 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
4679 projects directory in svn.
4680 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
4681 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
4682 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
4686 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
4687 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
4688 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
4690 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
4691 to the circuit build timeout.
4692 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
4693 arguments we do not recognize.
4694 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
4695 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
4696 open() without checking it.
4699 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
4700 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
4701 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
4702 several minor potential security bugs.
4705 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
4706 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
4707 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
4708 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
4709 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
4710 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
4711 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
4714 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
4715 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
4717 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
4718 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
4719 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
4720 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
4724 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
4725 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
4729 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
4730 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
4731 customized patches to run/build.
4734 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
4735 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
4736 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
4739 o Major bugfixes (performance):
4740 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
4741 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
4742 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
4743 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
4744 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
4745 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
4746 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
4749 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
4750 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
4751 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
4752 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
4753 libraries in a security patch.
4754 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
4755 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
4756 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
4757 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
4760 o Directory authority changes:
4761 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
4762 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
4763 service directory authority) from the list.
4766 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
4767 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
4770 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
4771 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
4772 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
4773 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
4774 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
4777 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
4778 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
4779 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
4783 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
4784 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
4785 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
4786 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
4787 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4790 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
4791 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
4792 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
4796 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
4797 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
4798 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
4799 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
4800 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
4802 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
4803 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
4805 o Directory authority changes:
4806 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
4809 o Major features (performance):
4810 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
4811 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
4812 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
4813 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
4814 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
4815 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
4816 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
4817 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
4818 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
4819 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
4820 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
4821 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
4822 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
4824 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
4825 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
4826 but never per-conn write limits.
4827 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
4828 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
4829 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
4830 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
4832 o Major features (relay selection options):
4833 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
4834 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
4835 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
4836 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
4837 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
4838 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
4839 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
4841 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
4842 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
4844 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
4845 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
4846 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
4847 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
4848 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
4849 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
4850 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
4851 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
4852 the network changes.
4855 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
4856 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
4857 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4860 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
4861 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
4862 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
4863 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
4864 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
4865 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
4866 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
4867 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
4868 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
4869 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
4870 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
4871 generated while acting as a relay.
4872 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
4873 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
4874 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
4875 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
4876 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
4877 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
4879 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
4880 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
4881 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4882 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
4883 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
4884 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
4887 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
4888 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
4889 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
4891 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
4892 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
4893 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
4895 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
4896 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
4898 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
4899 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
4900 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
4902 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
4903 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
4906 o Minor bugfixes (other):
4907 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
4908 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
4909 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
4910 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
4911 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
4912 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
4913 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
4914 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
4916 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
4920 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
4921 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
4922 hidden service usage.
4925 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
4926 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
4927 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
4928 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
4929 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
4931 o Directory authority changes:
4932 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
4936 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
4937 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
4938 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4941 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
4942 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
4943 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
4944 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
4945 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
4948 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
4949 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
4950 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
4951 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
4952 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
4953 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
4954 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
4957 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
4958 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
4959 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4960 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
4961 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
4962 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
4964 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
4965 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
4968 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
4969 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
4970 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
4971 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
4972 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
4973 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
4976 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
4977 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
4978 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
4980 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
4981 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
4982 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
4983 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
4984 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
4985 download consensus + microdescriptors".
4986 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
4987 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
4988 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
4989 hash algorithm in the future.
4990 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
4991 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
4992 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
4993 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
4994 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
4995 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
4996 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
4997 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
4998 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
5001 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
5002 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
5003 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
5004 won't work unless we say we are.
5007 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
5008 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
5009 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
5010 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
5011 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
5012 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
5013 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
5014 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
5015 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5016 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
5017 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
5018 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
5019 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
5020 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
5021 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
5022 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
5023 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
5024 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
5025 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
5026 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
5027 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
5028 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
5031 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
5032 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
5033 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
5034 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
5036 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
5037 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
5039 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
5040 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
5041 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
5042 in the Vidalia Settings window.
5045 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
5046 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
5047 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
5048 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
5049 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
5051 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
5052 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
5054 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
5055 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
5056 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
5059 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
5060 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
5061 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
5063 o New directory authorities:
5064 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
5066 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
5069 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
5070 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
5072 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
5073 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
5074 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5075 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
5076 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
5077 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
5078 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5079 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
5080 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
5081 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
5082 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
5083 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
5084 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
5085 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
5086 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
5087 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
5088 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
5090 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
5091 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
5092 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
5094 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
5095 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
5099 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
5100 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
5101 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
5102 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
5103 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
5106 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
5107 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5110 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5112 o Directory authorities:
5113 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
5117 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
5118 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
5119 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
5120 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
5121 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
5124 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
5125 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
5126 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
5127 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
5129 o New directory authorities:
5130 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
5133 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
5134 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
5135 SSL handshake issues.
5136 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
5137 during the TLS handshake.
5138 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
5139 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
5140 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
5141 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
5142 none of which are very big.
5145 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
5147 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
5148 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5149 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
5150 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
5151 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5152 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
5153 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
5154 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
5157 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5158 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
5159 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
5160 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
5161 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
5164 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
5165 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5168 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
5169 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
5172 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
5173 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
5174 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5177 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
5178 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
5179 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
5180 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
5181 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
5182 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
5185 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
5186 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
5187 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
5188 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
5189 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
5190 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
5191 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
5192 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
5193 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
5194 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
5195 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
5196 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
5197 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
5198 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
5199 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
5200 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
5201 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
5202 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
5205 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
5206 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
5210 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
5211 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
5212 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
5213 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
5214 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
5215 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
5216 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5217 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
5218 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
5219 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
5220 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5221 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
5222 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
5223 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
5224 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
5225 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
5226 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
5227 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
5228 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
5229 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
5230 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
5232 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
5233 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
5234 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
5235 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5236 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
5237 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
5239 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
5240 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
5241 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
5244 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
5245 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
5246 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
5247 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
5248 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
5249 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
5252 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
5253 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
5254 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
5255 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
5256 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
5259 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
5260 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
5261 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
5264 o New directory authorities:
5265 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
5269 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
5270 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
5271 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
5272 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
5273 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
5276 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
5277 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
5278 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
5279 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
5280 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
5283 o New options for gathering stats safely:
5284 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
5285 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
5286 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
5287 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
5288 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
5289 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
5290 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
5291 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
5292 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
5294 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
5295 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
5296 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
5297 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
5299 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
5300 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
5301 their extra-info documents.
5304 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
5305 source files Tor was built with.
5306 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
5307 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
5308 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
5309 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
5310 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
5311 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
5313 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
5314 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
5315 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
5316 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
5317 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
5319 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
5320 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
5323 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
5324 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
5325 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
5326 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
5327 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
5329 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
5330 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
5332 o Deprecated and removed features:
5333 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
5334 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
5335 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
5336 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
5337 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
5338 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
5339 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
5340 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
5342 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
5343 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
5344 via application-level web tricks.
5346 o Packaging changes:
5347 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
5348 installer bundles. See
5349 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
5350 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
5351 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
5352 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
5353 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
5354 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
5355 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
5356 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
5357 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
5358 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
5359 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
5360 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
5363 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
5364 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
5365 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
5368 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
5369 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
5370 part of patch provided by "optimist".
5373 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
5374 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
5375 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
5376 and confuse fewer users.
5379 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
5380 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
5381 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
5382 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
5383 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
5384 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
5385 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
5388 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
5389 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
5390 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
5391 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
5392 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
5393 other features and bug fixes.
5396 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
5399 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
5400 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
5401 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
5402 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
5403 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
5406 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
5407 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
5408 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
5409 failure message (oops).
5412 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
5413 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
5414 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
5415 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
5419 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
5420 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
5421 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
5422 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
5423 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
5424 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
5425 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
5426 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
5427 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
5428 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
5429 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
5430 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
5431 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
5432 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
5433 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
5436 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
5437 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
5438 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
5439 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
5440 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
5441 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
5442 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
5443 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
5444 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
5445 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
5446 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
5447 Workaround for bug 1024.
5448 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
5452 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
5453 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
5454 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
5457 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
5459 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
5460 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
5461 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
5462 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
5463 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
5466 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
5467 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
5468 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
5469 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
5470 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
5471 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
5472 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
5473 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
5474 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
5475 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
5478 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
5479 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
5480 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
5481 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
5482 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
5483 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
5484 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
5485 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
5488 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
5489 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
5490 a bunch of minor bugs.
5493 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
5494 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
5495 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
5497 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
5498 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
5499 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
5500 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
5502 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
5506 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
5507 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
5508 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
5510 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
5511 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
5513 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
5514 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
5516 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
5517 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
5518 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
5519 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
5520 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
5521 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
5522 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
5523 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
5525 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
5526 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
5527 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
5529 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
5530 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
5531 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
5532 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
5533 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
5537 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
5538 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
5539 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
5542 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
5543 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
5544 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
5545 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
5547 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
5548 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
5549 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
5550 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
5551 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
5552 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
5553 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
5554 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
5555 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
5556 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
5557 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
5558 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5559 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
5560 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
5561 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
5562 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
5563 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
5565 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
5566 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
5567 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
5568 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5570 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
5571 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
5572 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
5575 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
5576 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
5577 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
5578 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
5579 addresses to fall out of the directory.
5582 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
5583 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
5584 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
5585 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
5587 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
5588 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
5589 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
5590 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
5591 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
5592 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
5593 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
5594 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
5595 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
5596 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
5597 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
5598 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
5599 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
5601 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
5602 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
5605 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
5606 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
5607 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
5608 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
5609 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
5610 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
5612 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
5613 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
5614 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
5615 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
5616 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
5618 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
5621 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
5622 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
5624 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
5625 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
5626 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5627 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5628 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
5629 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
5631 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
5632 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5633 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
5634 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
5635 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
5636 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5637 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
5638 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
5639 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
5640 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
5641 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
5642 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
5646 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
5647 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
5648 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
5651 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
5652 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
5653 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5655 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
5656 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
5657 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
5658 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
5659 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
5660 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
5661 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
5662 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
5663 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
5664 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
5665 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
5666 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
5667 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
5668 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
5669 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
5670 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
5671 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
5672 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
5673 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
5674 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
5675 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
5676 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
5677 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
5678 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
5679 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
5680 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
5682 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
5683 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
5684 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
5685 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
5686 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
5687 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
5688 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
5689 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
5690 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
5691 of 0. Suggested by lark.
5693 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
5694 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
5695 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
5696 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
5697 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
5700 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
5702 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
5703 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
5704 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
5705 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
5708 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
5709 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
5710 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
5711 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
5712 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
5714 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
5715 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
5716 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
5717 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
5720 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
5721 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5722 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
5723 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
5724 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
5725 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
5726 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
5727 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
5730 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
5731 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
5732 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
5733 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
5736 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
5737 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
5738 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
5739 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
5740 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
5741 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
5744 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
5745 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5746 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
5747 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
5748 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
5749 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
5752 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
5753 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
5754 reported by Matt Edman.
5755 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
5757 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
5758 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
5759 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
5760 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
5762 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
5763 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5764 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
5765 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5766 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
5767 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
5768 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
5769 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
5770 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
5771 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
5772 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
5773 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
5774 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
5775 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
5776 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
5777 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
5778 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
5779 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
5780 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
5783 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
5784 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
5785 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
5786 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
5789 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
5790 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
5791 the letter of C99's alias rules.
5794 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
5795 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
5796 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
5797 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
5799 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
5800 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
5801 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
5804 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
5805 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
5808 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
5809 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
5810 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
5811 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
5812 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
5814 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
5815 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
5816 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
5817 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
5818 identify a connection.
5819 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
5820 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
5821 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
5822 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
5823 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
5824 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
5825 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
5826 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
5827 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
5828 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
5830 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
5831 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
5832 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
5833 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
5834 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
5835 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
5836 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
5839 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
5840 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
5842 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
5843 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
5844 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
5845 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
5846 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
5847 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
5848 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5849 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
5851 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
5852 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
5853 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
5854 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
5855 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
5856 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
5857 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
5858 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
5859 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
5860 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
5861 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
5862 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
5863 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
5864 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
5865 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
5866 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
5867 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
5868 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
5869 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
5870 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
5871 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
5872 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
5873 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
5874 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
5875 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
5876 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
5877 840. Patch from rovv.
5878 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
5879 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
5880 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
5882 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
5883 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
5884 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
5885 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
5886 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
5887 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
5888 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
5890 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
5891 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
5892 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
5895 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
5896 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
5898 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
5899 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
5900 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
5901 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
5902 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
5903 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
5904 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
5905 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
5906 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
5908 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
5910 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
5911 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
5915 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
5916 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
5917 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
5918 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
5919 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
5920 have had some time to upgrade.)
5923 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
5924 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
5927 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
5928 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
5929 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
5930 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
5931 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
5934 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
5935 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
5937 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
5938 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
5939 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
5940 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
5941 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
5942 entirely. Patch from coderman.
5945 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
5946 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5947 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
5948 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
5949 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
5950 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
5951 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
5955 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
5956 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
5957 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
5958 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
5959 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
5960 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
5961 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
5964 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
5965 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
5966 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
5967 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
5968 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
5970 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
5971 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
5972 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
5973 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
5974 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
5975 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
5976 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
5977 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
5978 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
5979 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
5983 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
5984 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
5985 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
5987 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
5988 without support for deprecated functions.
5989 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
5991 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
5992 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
5993 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
5994 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
5995 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
5996 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
5997 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
5998 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
5999 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
6000 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
6001 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
6002 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
6003 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
6004 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
6005 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
6006 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
6007 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
6008 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
6009 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
6010 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
6011 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
6012 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
6013 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
6015 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
6016 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
6017 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
6018 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
6019 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
6020 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
6022 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
6023 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
6024 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
6025 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
6026 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
6028 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
6029 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
6030 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
6032 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
6033 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
6036 o Deprecated and removed features:
6037 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
6038 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
6039 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
6042 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6043 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
6044 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
6045 with log.h on Android.
6046 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
6047 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
6050 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
6051 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
6053 o New directory authorities:
6054 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
6058 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
6059 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
6060 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
6061 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
6062 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
6063 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6066 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
6067 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
6068 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
6069 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
6070 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
6071 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
6072 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
6073 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
6075 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
6076 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
6077 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
6078 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
6081 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
6082 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
6084 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
6085 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
6086 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
6087 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
6088 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
6089 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
6090 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
6091 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
6092 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
6093 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
6094 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
6095 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
6096 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
6097 Implements proposal 148.
6098 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
6099 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
6100 system to do it for us.
6101 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
6102 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
6103 this fix will be slightly helpful.
6104 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
6105 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
6106 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
6107 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
6108 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
6109 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
6110 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
6111 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
6112 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
6115 o Minor features (controller):
6116 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
6117 been fetched and validated.
6118 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
6119 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
6120 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
6121 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
6122 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
6123 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
6126 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
6127 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6128 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
6129 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
6130 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
6132 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
6133 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
6134 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
6135 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
6136 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
6137 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
6138 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
6139 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
6140 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
6142 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6143 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
6144 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
6145 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
6146 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
6147 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
6148 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
6149 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
6151 o Deprecated and removed features:
6152 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
6154 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
6155 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
6156 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
6158 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6159 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
6160 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
6162 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
6163 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
6164 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
6165 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
6166 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
6167 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
6170 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
6171 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
6172 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
6173 fixes a variety of other issues.
6176 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
6177 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
6178 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
6179 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
6182 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
6183 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
6184 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
6185 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
6188 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
6189 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6190 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
6194 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
6196 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
6197 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
6198 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
6199 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
6200 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
6201 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
6202 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
6204 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
6205 rest, and don't automatically fail.
6206 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
6207 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
6208 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
6209 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
6211 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
6212 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
6213 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
6214 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
6215 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
6216 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
6217 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
6218 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
6219 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
6220 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
6222 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
6226 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
6227 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
6228 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
6230 o Minor features (controller):
6231 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
6235 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
6236 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
6237 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
6238 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
6239 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
6240 variety of other issues.
6243 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
6244 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
6245 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
6246 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
6247 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
6248 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
6249 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
6250 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
6251 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
6252 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
6253 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
6254 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
6257 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
6258 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6260 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
6261 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
6262 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
6263 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
6264 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
6265 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
6266 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6267 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
6268 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
6269 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
6270 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
6271 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
6272 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
6273 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
6274 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
6278 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
6279 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
6280 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
6281 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
6282 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
6283 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
6284 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
6285 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
6286 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
6287 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
6288 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
6289 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
6290 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
6291 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
6292 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
6293 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
6294 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
6295 list. It has been gone for many months.
6296 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
6297 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
6298 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
6301 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6302 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
6303 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
6306 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
6307 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
6308 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
6309 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
6310 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
6311 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
6312 variety of other issues.
6315 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
6316 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
6317 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
6318 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
6319 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
6320 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
6321 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
6322 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
6323 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
6324 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
6325 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
6326 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
6327 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
6328 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
6331 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
6332 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
6333 Suggested by Lucky Green.
6334 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
6335 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
6336 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
6337 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
6338 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
6339 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
6341 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
6342 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
6344 o Hidden service performance improvements:
6345 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
6346 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
6347 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
6348 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
6349 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
6350 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
6351 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
6352 faster after restart.
6355 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
6356 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
6357 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
6358 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
6359 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
6360 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
6361 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
6362 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
6363 840. Patch from rovv.
6364 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
6365 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
6366 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
6367 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
6368 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
6369 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
6370 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
6371 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
6372 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
6374 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
6375 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
6376 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
6377 have already been marked for close.
6378 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
6379 introduction points.
6380 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
6381 memory performance during directory parsing.
6382 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
6383 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
6384 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
6385 because of a pending download.
6388 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
6389 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
6390 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
6391 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
6394 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
6395 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
6396 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
6397 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
6398 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
6399 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
6400 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
6401 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
6402 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
6403 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
6404 lookups more reliable.
6405 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
6406 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
6407 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
6408 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
6409 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
6410 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
6411 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
6414 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
6415 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
6416 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6417 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
6418 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
6419 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
6420 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
6421 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
6422 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
6423 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
6424 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
6426 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
6427 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
6428 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
6429 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
6430 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
6431 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6432 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
6433 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
6434 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6437 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
6438 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
6439 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
6440 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
6441 locked down these days.
6442 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
6443 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
6444 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
6445 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
6446 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
6448 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
6449 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
6450 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
6451 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
6452 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
6453 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
6454 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
6455 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
6456 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
6457 people find host:port too confusing.
6458 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
6459 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
6460 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
6463 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6465 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
6466 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
6467 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
6468 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
6469 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
6471 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
6472 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
6473 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
6474 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
6475 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
6476 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
6477 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
6478 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
6479 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
6480 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
6481 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
6482 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
6484 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
6485 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
6486 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
6487 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
6488 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
6489 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
6490 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6491 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
6492 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
6494 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
6495 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
6496 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
6497 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
6498 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
6499 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6500 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
6501 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
6502 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
6503 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
6504 bug 820, reported by seeess.
6505 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
6506 list. It has been gone for many months.
6508 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6509 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
6510 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
6511 actual mistakes we're making here.
6512 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
6513 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
6514 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
6515 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
6518 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
6519 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
6520 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
6521 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
6524 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
6525 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
6526 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
6527 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
6528 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
6529 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
6531 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
6532 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
6533 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
6534 pointed out by rovv.
6537 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
6538 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6539 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
6540 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
6541 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
6542 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
6543 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
6544 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
6545 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
6546 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6547 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
6548 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
6549 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
6550 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
6551 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
6552 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
6553 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
6554 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
6555 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
6556 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
6557 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
6560 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
6561 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
6562 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
6563 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
6564 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
6565 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
6566 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
6569 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
6571 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
6572 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
6573 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
6574 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
6575 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
6576 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
6577 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
6579 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
6580 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
6581 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
6582 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
6583 known descriptor before building circuits.
6585 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
6586 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
6587 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
6588 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
6589 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
6590 identify a connection.
6591 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
6592 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
6593 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
6595 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
6596 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
6597 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
6598 pointed out by rovv.
6601 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
6602 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6603 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
6604 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
6605 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
6606 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
6607 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
6608 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
6609 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
6610 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
6611 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
6612 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
6613 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
6614 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
6615 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6618 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
6619 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
6620 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
6621 answer sections match.
6622 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
6623 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
6626 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
6627 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6630 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
6631 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
6632 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
6634 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
6635 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
6636 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6639 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
6640 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
6641 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
6642 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
6646 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
6647 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
6650 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
6651 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
6652 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
6653 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
6654 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
6655 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
6657 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
6658 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
6659 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
6662 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
6663 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
6664 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
6665 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
6666 be sent using an "early" cell.
6669 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
6670 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
6671 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
6672 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
6673 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
6674 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
6675 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
6678 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
6679 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
6680 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
6681 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
6682 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
6683 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
6684 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
6685 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
6686 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
6687 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
6688 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
6689 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
6690 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
6691 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
6692 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
6693 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
6696 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
6697 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
6698 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
6699 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
6700 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
6701 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
6702 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
6703 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
6704 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
6706 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
6707 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
6708 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
6709 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
6710 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
6713 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6714 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
6715 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
6716 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
6719 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
6720 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
6724 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
6726 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
6727 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
6728 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
6731 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
6732 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
6733 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
6736 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
6737 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
6738 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
6739 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
6740 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6741 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
6742 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
6743 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
6744 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6745 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
6746 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
6747 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
6748 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
6749 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
6750 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
6751 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
6752 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
6753 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
6754 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
6755 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
6756 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
6757 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
6758 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
6761 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
6762 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
6764 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
6765 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
6766 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
6767 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
6768 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
6769 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
6770 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
6772 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
6773 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
6774 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
6775 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
6776 found by Geoff Goodell.
6779 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
6780 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
6781 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
6782 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
6783 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
6784 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
6787 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
6788 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
6789 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
6792 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
6793 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
6794 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
6795 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
6796 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6797 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
6798 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
6799 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
6800 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
6801 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
6802 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
6803 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
6804 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
6805 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
6808 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
6809 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
6810 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
6812 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
6813 fingerprints with or without space.
6814 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
6815 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
6816 partway through and wants to catch up.
6817 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
6818 state to start out in.
6821 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
6822 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
6823 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6824 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
6825 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
6828 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
6829 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
6830 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
6831 some of the connection attempts fail.
6832 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
6833 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
6834 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
6835 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
6836 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
6837 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
6839 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
6840 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
6841 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
6844 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
6845 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
6846 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
6847 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
6848 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
6849 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
6850 and adds a variety of smaller features.
6853 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
6854 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
6855 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
6856 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
6858 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
6859 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
6860 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
6861 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
6863 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
6864 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
6865 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
6866 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
6867 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
6868 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
6869 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
6872 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
6873 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
6874 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
6875 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
6876 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
6878 o Memory fixes and improvements:
6879 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
6880 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
6881 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
6882 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
6883 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
6884 on a typical directory cache.
6885 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
6886 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
6887 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
6888 and may reduce fragmentation.
6889 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
6890 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
6891 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
6893 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
6894 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
6895 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
6897 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
6898 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
6902 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
6903 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
6904 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
6905 done that for a long time.
6906 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
6907 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
6908 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
6909 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
6912 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
6913 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
6914 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
6915 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
6916 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
6917 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
6919 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
6920 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
6921 output to messages of warning and error severity.
6922 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
6923 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
6924 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
6925 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
6926 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
6927 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
6928 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
6929 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
6930 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
6931 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
6932 directory requests we should expect to see.
6933 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
6935 - Lots of new unit tests.
6936 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
6937 two parallel lists in lockstep.
6940 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
6941 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
6942 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
6945 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
6946 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
6947 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
6948 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
6949 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
6950 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
6951 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
6954 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
6955 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
6956 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
6960 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
6961 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
6962 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
6965 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
6966 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
6967 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
6969 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
6970 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
6972 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
6973 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
6974 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
6975 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
6976 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6977 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
6978 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
6980 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
6981 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
6982 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
6983 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
6984 - Fix compile on Windows.
6987 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
6988 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
6989 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
6990 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
6991 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
6992 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
6993 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
6996 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
6997 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
7000 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
7001 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
7002 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
7003 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
7005 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
7006 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
7007 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
7010 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
7011 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
7012 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
7013 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
7017 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
7018 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
7019 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
7020 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
7022 o Major security fixes:
7023 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
7024 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
7025 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
7026 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
7027 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
7030 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
7031 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7034 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
7035 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
7038 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
7039 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
7042 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
7043 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
7044 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
7047 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
7048 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7051 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
7052 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
7053 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
7054 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
7055 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
7057 o New directory authorities:
7058 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
7059 it has been down for months.
7060 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
7064 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
7065 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
7067 o Minor features (security):
7068 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
7069 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
7070 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
7073 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
7074 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
7075 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
7076 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
7077 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
7078 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
7079 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
7080 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
7081 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7083 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
7084 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
7085 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7086 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
7087 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
7088 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
7089 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7090 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
7091 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
7093 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7094 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
7095 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
7096 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
7097 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
7098 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
7099 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
7100 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
7101 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
7102 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
7103 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7104 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
7105 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
7106 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
7107 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
7108 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
7109 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
7110 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
7111 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
7114 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
7115 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
7116 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
7117 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
7120 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
7121 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
7122 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
7123 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
7126 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
7127 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
7128 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
7129 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
7130 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
7133 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
7134 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
7135 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
7136 certain censored countries by default again.
7139 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
7140 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7141 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
7142 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
7143 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7144 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
7145 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
7146 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
7148 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
7149 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
7150 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
7151 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
7152 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
7153 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
7154 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
7155 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
7156 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
7157 a directory. Fix from lodger.
7159 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7160 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
7161 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
7162 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
7163 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
7164 RelayBandwidth* values.
7165 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
7166 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
7167 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
7168 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
7169 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
7170 get_interface_address6().
7171 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
7172 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
7173 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
7175 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
7176 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
7177 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
7178 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7179 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
7180 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
7181 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
7182 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
7183 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
7184 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7187 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
7188 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
7189 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
7192 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
7193 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
7194 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
7195 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
7196 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
7199 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
7200 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
7201 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
7202 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
7203 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
7204 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
7205 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
7206 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
7207 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
7210 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
7211 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
7212 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
7213 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7216 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
7217 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
7218 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
7219 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
7220 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
7221 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
7222 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
7225 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
7226 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
7227 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
7228 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
7229 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
7230 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
7231 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
7233 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
7234 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
7235 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
7236 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
7237 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
7240 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
7241 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
7243 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
7244 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
7245 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
7246 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7247 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
7248 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
7249 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
7250 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
7251 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
7252 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
7253 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
7254 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
7255 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7256 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
7257 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7258 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7259 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
7260 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
7261 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
7262 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
7263 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
7264 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
7265 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
7267 o Minor features (performance):
7268 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
7270 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
7271 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
7272 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
7273 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
7274 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
7275 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
7276 non-system include paths.
7277 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
7278 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
7281 o Minor features (other):
7282 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
7284 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
7285 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
7286 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
7289 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
7290 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
7291 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
7292 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
7294 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
7295 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
7296 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
7297 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
7299 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
7300 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
7301 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7302 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
7303 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7305 o Minor bugfixes (other):
7306 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
7307 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
7308 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
7309 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
7310 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
7311 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
7312 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
7313 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
7314 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
7315 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
7316 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
7317 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
7318 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
7319 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
7320 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7321 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
7322 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
7323 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
7324 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
7325 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
7326 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
7327 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
7328 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
7329 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
7332 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7333 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
7334 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
7338 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
7339 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
7340 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
7341 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
7342 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
7345 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
7346 Tor's x509 certificates.
7349 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
7350 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
7351 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7352 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
7353 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
7354 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7356 o Minor features (security):
7357 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
7358 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
7360 o Minor features (directory authority):
7361 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
7362 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
7363 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
7364 bandwidthburst values.
7366 o Minor features (controller):
7367 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
7368 processes from running us out of memory.
7370 o Minor features (misc):
7371 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
7372 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
7373 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
7374 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
7376 o Deprecated features (controller):
7377 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
7378 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
7379 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
7382 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
7383 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
7385 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
7386 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
7387 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7388 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
7389 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
7390 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7391 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
7392 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
7394 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
7395 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7396 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
7397 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7398 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
7399 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
7400 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
7401 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
7403 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
7404 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
7405 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
7406 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
7407 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7408 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
7409 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7410 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
7411 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7412 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
7413 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
7414 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7416 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7417 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
7419 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
7420 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
7421 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
7422 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
7423 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
7424 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
7427 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
7428 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
7429 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
7430 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
7431 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
7433 o New directory authorities:
7434 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
7438 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
7439 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
7440 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
7441 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
7442 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
7443 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
7444 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
7445 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
7449 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
7450 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
7451 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
7452 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
7453 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
7454 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
7455 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
7456 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
7457 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
7458 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
7461 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
7462 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
7463 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
7464 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
7468 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
7469 the request isn't encrypted.
7470 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
7471 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
7472 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
7473 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
7474 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
7477 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
7478 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
7481 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
7484 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
7485 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
7486 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
7488 o New directory authorities:
7489 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
7492 o Major performance improvements:
7493 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
7494 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
7495 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
7496 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
7497 memory fragmentation.
7500 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
7501 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
7502 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
7503 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
7504 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
7505 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
7506 bodies when they receive them.
7507 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
7508 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
7509 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
7511 o Minor performance improvements:
7512 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
7513 of them were actually distinct.
7514 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
7515 interested in a given message.
7518 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
7519 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
7520 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
7521 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
7522 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
7523 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
7524 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
7525 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
7526 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
7527 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
7528 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
7530 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
7531 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
7532 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
7533 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
7534 this country" and "1 person from this country".
7535 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
7536 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
7537 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
7538 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
7539 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
7541 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
7542 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
7543 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
7545 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
7546 but client versions are not.
7547 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
7548 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
7550 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
7551 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
7552 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
7553 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
7554 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
7556 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
7557 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
7558 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
7561 o Minor features (controller):
7562 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
7563 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
7564 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
7565 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
7567 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7568 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
7569 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
7570 running a test network on a single host.
7571 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
7572 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
7574 o Minor features (bridges):
7575 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
7576 unencrypted connections.
7578 o Minor features (other):
7579 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
7580 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
7581 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
7582 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
7585 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
7586 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
7587 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
7588 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
7591 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
7592 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
7593 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
7594 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
7598 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
7599 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
7600 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
7601 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
7602 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
7603 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
7604 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
7605 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
7606 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
7607 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
7608 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
7609 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
7612 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
7613 rebuild our server descriptor.
7614 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
7615 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
7616 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
7617 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
7618 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
7619 nonstandard integer types.
7620 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
7621 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
7622 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
7623 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
7624 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
7626 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
7627 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
7628 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
7629 when they receive them.
7630 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
7631 This includes some 64-bit systems.
7632 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
7633 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
7634 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
7635 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
7636 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
7637 router_get_by_hexdigest().
7638 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
7639 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
7643 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
7644 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
7645 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7648 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
7649 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
7650 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
7651 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
7652 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
7653 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
7654 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
7655 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7658 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
7659 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
7660 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
7661 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
7663 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
7664 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
7667 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
7668 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
7671 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
7673 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
7674 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
7676 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
7677 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
7678 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
7679 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7680 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
7681 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
7682 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
7683 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7684 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
7685 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
7689 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
7690 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
7691 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
7694 - Make the unit tests build again.
7695 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
7696 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
7697 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
7698 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
7699 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
7700 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7701 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
7702 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
7703 the next one as a duplicate.
7706 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
7707 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
7708 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
7709 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
7712 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
7713 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
7714 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
7717 o New directory authorities:
7718 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
7722 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
7723 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
7724 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
7725 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
7726 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
7727 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
7728 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
7730 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
7731 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
7733 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
7734 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
7735 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
7736 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
7737 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
7738 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
7740 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
7741 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
7742 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7743 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
7744 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
7745 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7748 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
7749 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
7750 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
7751 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
7752 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
7753 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
7754 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
7755 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
7756 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
7757 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
7758 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
7759 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
7760 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
7761 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
7762 where Tor is blocked.
7763 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
7764 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
7765 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
7766 to a file periodically.
7767 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
7768 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
7769 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
7773 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
7774 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
7775 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
7776 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
7777 in the relevant networkstatus document.
7778 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
7779 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
7780 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7781 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
7782 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
7783 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
7784 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
7786 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
7787 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
7788 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
7789 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
7790 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
7791 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7792 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
7793 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
7794 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
7795 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7796 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
7797 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
7798 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
7799 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7800 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
7801 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
7802 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
7803 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
7804 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
7805 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7806 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7807 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
7808 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7809 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
7810 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
7811 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7812 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
7813 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7816 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
7817 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
7818 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
7819 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
7820 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
7821 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
7822 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
7823 even if your DirPort isn't on.
7824 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
7825 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
7826 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
7828 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
7829 multiple controller passwords.
7830 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
7831 router based on the router's purpose.
7832 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
7833 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
7834 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
7835 the approved-routers file.
7838 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
7839 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
7840 well as a few minor bugs.
7843 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
7844 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
7845 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
7847 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
7848 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
7849 rebuild our server descriptor.
7851 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
7852 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
7853 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
7854 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
7855 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
7856 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
7857 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
7858 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
7859 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
7860 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
7862 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
7863 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
7864 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
7865 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
7866 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
7867 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
7868 then be flexible about families.
7871 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
7872 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
7873 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
7877 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
7878 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
7879 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
7880 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
7881 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
7884 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
7885 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
7886 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
7887 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
7888 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
7891 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
7892 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
7894 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
7895 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
7896 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
7897 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
7898 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
7899 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
7900 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7902 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
7903 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
7904 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
7905 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
7908 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
7909 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
7912 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
7913 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
7914 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
7917 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
7918 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
7919 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
7920 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
7921 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
7922 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
7923 addresses many more minor issues.
7925 o New directory authorities:
7926 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
7929 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
7930 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
7931 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
7932 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
7934 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
7935 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
7936 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
7937 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
7938 and are reaching it.
7939 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
7940 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
7941 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
7942 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
7943 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
7944 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
7947 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
7948 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
7950 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
7951 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
7952 no longer work for clients.
7953 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
7954 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
7956 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
7957 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
7958 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
7959 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
7960 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
7961 enough directory information to build a circuit.
7962 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
7963 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
7964 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
7965 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
7966 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
7967 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
7969 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
7970 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
7971 requests for all of them.
7972 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
7974 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
7975 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
7976 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
7979 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
7980 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
7984 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
7985 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
7986 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
7987 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
7988 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
7989 networkstatuses that we already have.
7990 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
7991 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
7992 we start knowing some directory caches.
7993 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
7994 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
7995 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
7996 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
7997 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
7998 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
7999 Good in combination with --hash-password.
8000 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
8001 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
8003 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
8004 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
8005 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
8007 o Minor features (bridges):
8008 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
8009 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
8010 back to trying the bridge directly.
8011 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
8012 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
8014 o Minor features (controller):
8015 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
8016 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
8017 report the value as a "minimum skew."
8020 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
8021 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
8025 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
8026 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
8027 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
8028 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
8029 reported by tup and ioerror.
8030 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
8031 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
8033 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8034 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
8036 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
8037 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
8038 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
8040 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
8041 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8042 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
8043 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8044 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
8045 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8046 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
8048 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
8049 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
8050 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8052 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
8053 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
8054 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
8055 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
8056 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
8059 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
8060 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
8061 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
8062 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
8063 lists for a few hours each day.
8065 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8066 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
8067 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
8068 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
8069 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
8070 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8071 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
8072 rend_process_relay_cell().
8074 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8075 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
8076 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
8077 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
8078 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
8079 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
8080 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
8081 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
8083 o Major bugfixes (other):
8084 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
8085 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
8086 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
8087 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
8088 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
8089 circuit cannibalization).
8090 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
8091 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
8092 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
8093 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
8094 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
8095 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
8098 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
8099 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
8101 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
8102 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
8103 absent. Resolves bug 467.
8104 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
8105 a way to trigger this remotely.)
8106 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
8107 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
8108 were reporting the dir port.)
8109 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
8110 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
8111 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
8112 the future. Fixes bug 434.
8113 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
8115 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
8116 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
8117 the onion key from getting rotated.
8118 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
8119 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
8120 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
8121 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
8122 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
8123 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
8124 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
8125 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
8126 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
8129 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
8130 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
8131 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
8132 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
8133 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
8134 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
8136 o Major features (directory system):
8137 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
8138 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
8139 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
8140 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
8141 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
8142 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
8143 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
8144 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
8145 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
8146 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
8147 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
8148 Partially implements proposal 122.
8149 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
8150 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
8153 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
8154 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
8155 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
8156 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
8158 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
8159 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
8160 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
8161 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
8162 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
8163 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8164 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
8165 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
8166 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8168 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
8169 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
8171 - Allow certificates to include an address.
8172 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
8173 and download operations.
8174 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
8175 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
8176 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
8177 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
8178 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
8179 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
8181 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
8182 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
8185 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
8186 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
8187 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
8188 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
8190 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
8191 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
8192 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
8194 o Minor features (performance):
8195 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
8196 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
8197 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
8198 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
8199 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
8200 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
8201 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
8204 o Minor features (compilation):
8205 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
8206 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
8208 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
8209 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
8210 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
8211 stick around indefinitely.
8212 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
8214 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
8215 v3 directory authority.
8216 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
8217 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
8219 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
8220 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
8221 "moria on moria:9031."
8222 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
8223 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
8224 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
8225 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
8226 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
8227 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
8228 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
8229 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
8231 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
8232 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
8233 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
8234 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
8235 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
8236 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
8237 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
8238 downloads than for other types.
8240 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
8241 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
8243 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
8244 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
8245 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8247 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8248 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
8249 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8250 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
8251 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
8252 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
8253 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
8254 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
8256 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
8257 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
8258 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
8259 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
8260 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8261 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
8262 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
8263 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8264 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
8265 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
8266 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
8268 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
8269 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
8272 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8273 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
8274 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
8275 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
8276 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
8277 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
8278 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
8279 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
8280 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
8281 so that they all take the same named flags.
8284 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
8285 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
8286 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
8289 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
8290 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
8291 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
8292 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
8293 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
8294 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
8296 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
8297 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
8298 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
8299 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
8300 annotations along with descriptors.
8301 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
8302 source, and its purpose.
8303 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
8305 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
8306 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
8307 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
8308 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
8311 o Major features (directory authorities):
8312 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
8314 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
8315 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
8316 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
8317 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
8318 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
8319 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
8321 o Major features (v3 directory system):
8322 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
8323 and download the descriptors listed in them.
8324 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
8325 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
8326 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
8328 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8329 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
8330 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
8331 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
8334 o Major bugfixes (performance):
8335 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
8336 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
8337 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
8338 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
8340 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
8341 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
8342 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
8343 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
8344 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
8345 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8347 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
8348 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
8350 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
8351 certificate is requested.
8352 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
8353 certificate requests.
8355 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
8356 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
8357 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
8358 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
8361 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8362 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
8363 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
8364 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8366 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
8367 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
8369 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
8370 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
8371 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8372 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
8373 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
8374 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
8375 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
8376 downloads more sensible.
8377 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
8378 another when serving certificates.
8380 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8381 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
8382 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
8383 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
8385 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
8386 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8387 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
8389 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
8390 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8392 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8393 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
8394 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
8395 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
8396 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8398 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
8399 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
8400 WARN-severity events.
8401 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
8402 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
8403 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
8405 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
8406 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
8407 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
8409 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
8410 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
8411 circuit cannibalization).
8413 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8414 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
8415 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
8416 new module, networkstatus.c.
8417 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
8418 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
8419 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
8420 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
8421 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
8422 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
8423 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
8424 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
8425 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
8427 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
8429 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
8430 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8433 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
8434 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
8435 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
8436 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
8438 o New directory authorities:
8439 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
8440 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
8442 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8443 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
8444 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8446 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
8447 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
8448 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
8449 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
8450 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8451 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
8452 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
8453 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
8454 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
8455 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
8456 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8458 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8459 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
8460 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
8461 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
8462 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
8463 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
8464 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
8465 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
8466 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
8468 o Minor features (security):
8469 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
8470 address maps to an internal address space.
8471 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
8472 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
8474 o Minor features (guard nodes):
8475 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
8476 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
8477 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
8478 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
8480 o Minor features (speed):
8481 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
8482 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
8483 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
8484 on big-endian hosts.)
8486 o Minor features (controller):
8487 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
8488 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
8489 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
8490 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
8494 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
8495 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
8496 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
8497 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
8498 implementation of proposal 104.
8499 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
8500 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
8501 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
8502 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
8503 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
8504 patch from Karsten Loesing.
8505 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
8506 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
8509 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
8510 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
8511 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8512 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
8513 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8514 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
8515 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8516 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
8517 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
8518 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8519 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
8520 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
8521 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
8522 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8523 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
8524 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
8525 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
8526 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8527 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
8528 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
8530 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8531 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
8532 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
8534 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
8535 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
8536 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
8537 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
8540 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
8541 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
8542 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
8543 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
8544 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
8547 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
8548 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
8551 o Major bugfixes (security):
8552 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
8553 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
8554 become more of a headache than it's worth.
8556 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
8557 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
8558 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
8560 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
8561 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
8562 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
8563 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
8564 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
8565 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
8567 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
8568 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
8569 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
8570 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
8571 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
8573 o Minor features (controller):
8574 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
8575 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
8576 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
8577 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
8579 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8580 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
8581 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
8582 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
8583 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
8584 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
8585 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
8586 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
8588 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
8589 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
8590 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
8591 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
8592 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
8593 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
8594 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
8595 if we ran off the end of the list.
8596 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
8597 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
8598 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
8599 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
8600 every time we change any piece of our config.
8601 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
8602 encourage people using them to stop.
8603 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
8605 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
8606 servers to choose a circuit.
8607 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
8608 unparseable piece of it.
8611 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
8612 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
8613 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
8614 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
8617 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
8618 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
8619 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
8620 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
8621 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
8623 o New directory authorities:
8624 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
8627 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
8628 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
8629 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
8630 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
8632 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
8633 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
8634 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
8636 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
8637 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
8638 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
8639 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
8640 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
8641 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
8643 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
8644 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
8645 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
8648 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
8649 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
8650 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
8651 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
8655 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
8656 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
8657 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
8658 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
8660 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
8661 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
8663 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
8664 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
8665 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
8666 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
8667 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
8668 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
8669 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8670 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
8671 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
8672 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
8675 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
8676 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
8677 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
8678 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
8679 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
8680 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
8683 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
8684 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
8685 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
8686 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
8689 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
8690 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
8691 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
8692 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
8693 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
8696 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
8697 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
8698 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
8699 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
8700 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
8703 o Minor features (directory servers):
8704 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
8705 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
8707 o Minor features (directory voting):
8708 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
8711 o Minor features (security):
8712 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
8713 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
8714 encourage people using them to stop.
8716 o Minor features (controller):
8717 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
8718 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
8719 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
8720 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
8721 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
8722 cookie authentication file, and config option
8723 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
8725 o Minor features (unit testing):
8726 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
8727 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
8728 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
8729 logging for the unit tests.
8731 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
8732 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
8733 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
8734 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
8735 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
8736 every time we change any piece of our config.
8737 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
8738 the future. Fixes bug 434.
8739 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
8741 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
8742 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
8743 the onion key from getting rotated.
8744 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
8745 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
8746 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
8749 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
8750 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
8751 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
8753 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
8754 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
8755 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
8756 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
8759 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
8760 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
8761 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
8762 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
8763 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
8764 TorK, etc. Or worse.
8766 o Major security fixes:
8767 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
8768 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
8771 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
8772 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
8773 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
8774 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
8776 o Major security fixes:
8777 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
8778 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
8780 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
8781 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
8784 o Minor features (performance):
8785 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
8786 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
8787 performance-intensive.
8788 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
8789 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
8790 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
8791 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
8792 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
8793 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
8797 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
8798 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
8799 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
8800 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
8804 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
8805 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
8806 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
8807 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
8808 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
8810 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
8811 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
8812 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
8813 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
8815 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
8816 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
8817 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
8818 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
8819 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
8821 o Major features (experimental):
8822 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
8823 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
8824 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
8825 handling before it's ready for use.
8828 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
8829 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
8830 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
8831 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
8832 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
8833 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
8835 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
8836 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
8837 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
8838 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
8839 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
8841 o Major bugfixes (directory):
8842 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
8843 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
8845 o Minor features (controller):
8846 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
8847 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
8848 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
8850 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
8852 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
8853 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
8855 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
8856 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
8857 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
8858 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
8859 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
8860 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
8861 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
8864 o Minor features (misc):
8865 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
8867 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
8868 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
8869 the authority identity key.
8870 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
8872 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
8873 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
8874 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
8877 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
8878 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
8879 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
8880 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
8881 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
8882 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
8883 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
8884 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
8886 o Performance improvements:
8887 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
8889 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
8890 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
8893 o Deprecated and removed features:
8894 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
8895 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
8896 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
8897 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
8899 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
8900 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
8901 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
8902 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
8903 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
8904 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
8905 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
8906 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
8907 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
8910 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
8911 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
8912 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
8913 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
8914 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
8916 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
8917 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
8920 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8921 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
8922 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
8923 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
8924 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
8925 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
8926 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
8927 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
8928 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
8931 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
8932 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
8933 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
8934 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
8936 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
8937 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
8939 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8940 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
8941 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
8942 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
8943 routerlist while inserting a new router.
8944 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
8945 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
8947 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
8948 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
8949 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
8951 o Major bugfixes (security):
8952 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
8954 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
8955 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
8956 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
8957 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
8958 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
8959 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
8960 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
8961 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
8962 guard list unless we need to.
8964 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
8965 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
8966 don't get overused as guards.
8968 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
8969 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
8970 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
8971 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
8972 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
8974 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8975 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
8976 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
8979 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
8980 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
8981 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
8982 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
8983 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
8984 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
8985 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
8986 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
8989 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
8990 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
8991 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
8992 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
8994 o Minor features (directory):
8995 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
8996 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
8997 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
8998 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
9000 o Minor build issues:
9001 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
9002 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
9003 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
9004 in the tarball, not as "x".
9007 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
9008 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
9009 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
9010 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
9011 forward on a lot of fronts.
9013 o Major features, server usability:
9014 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
9015 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
9016 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
9017 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
9019 o Major features, client usability:
9020 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
9021 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
9022 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
9023 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
9024 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
9025 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
9026 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
9027 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
9029 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
9030 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
9031 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
9032 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
9033 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
9034 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
9036 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
9037 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
9038 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
9040 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
9041 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
9042 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
9043 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
9044 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
9046 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
9047 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
9048 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
9049 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
9051 o Major features, other:
9052 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
9053 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
9054 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
9055 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
9056 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
9059 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
9060 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
9061 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
9064 o Minor fixes (resource management):
9065 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
9066 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
9067 our allocated connection limit.
9068 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
9069 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
9070 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
9071 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
9072 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
9074 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
9075 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
9076 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
9078 o Minor features (build):
9079 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
9080 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
9081 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
9082 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
9084 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
9085 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
9086 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
9087 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
9088 Use this version consistently in log messages.
9090 o Minor features (logging):
9091 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
9092 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
9093 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
9094 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
9095 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
9098 o Minor features (directory system):
9099 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
9100 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
9101 not to serve V2 directory information.
9102 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
9103 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
9104 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
9106 o Minor features (controller):
9107 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
9108 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
9110 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
9111 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
9112 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
9113 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
9114 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
9115 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
9117 o Minor features (hidden services):
9118 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
9119 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
9120 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
9121 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
9123 o Minor features (other):
9125 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
9126 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
9127 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
9128 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
9129 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
9130 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
9131 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
9132 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
9133 longer a completely silly thing to do.
9134 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
9135 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
9136 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
9137 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
9140 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
9141 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
9142 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
9143 back an error and close the connection.
9144 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
9145 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
9148 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9149 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
9150 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
9151 makes the log messages nicer.
9152 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
9153 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
9154 partial results on small file reads.
9156 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
9157 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
9158 more often than they are allowed to appear.
9159 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
9160 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
9162 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9163 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
9164 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
9165 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
9167 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9168 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
9169 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
9170 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
9171 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
9172 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
9173 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
9174 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
9175 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
9176 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
9177 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
9179 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
9180 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
9181 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
9183 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
9184 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
9185 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
9186 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
9188 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9189 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
9190 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
9192 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
9193 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
9196 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9197 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
9198 implicit in other procedure arguments.
9199 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
9200 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
9201 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
9202 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
9203 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
9204 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
9205 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
9206 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
9207 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
9210 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
9211 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
9212 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
9213 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
9215 o Directory authority changes:
9216 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
9217 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
9218 or use hidden services.
9220 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
9221 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
9222 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
9223 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
9224 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
9225 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
9226 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
9227 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
9228 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
9231 o Major bugfixes (security):
9232 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
9233 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
9234 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
9236 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
9237 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
9238 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
9239 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
9240 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
9241 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
9242 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
9243 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
9244 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
9245 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
9248 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
9250 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
9251 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
9253 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
9254 having a hard time downloading.
9255 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
9256 partial results on small file reads.
9257 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
9258 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
9259 the gaps in the store get very large.
9262 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
9263 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
9265 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
9266 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
9269 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
9270 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
9271 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
9272 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
9273 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
9274 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
9276 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
9277 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
9278 free speech on the Internet.
9281 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
9282 get one we don't recognize.
9283 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
9284 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
9287 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
9289 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
9290 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
9291 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
9292 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
9295 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
9296 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
9299 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
9300 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
9301 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
9302 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
9303 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
9304 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
9308 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
9309 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
9310 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
9311 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
9312 on Win98 and friends again.
9314 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9315 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
9316 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
9319 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
9320 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
9321 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
9322 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
9323 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
9324 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
9325 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
9326 and maybe also bug 397.)
9328 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
9329 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
9330 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
9332 o Minor bugfixes (server):
9333 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
9336 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
9337 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
9338 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
9339 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
9340 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
9342 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9343 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
9344 load on authorities.
9346 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9347 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
9348 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
9349 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
9351 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
9353 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
9354 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
9355 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
9356 the last of bug 326.)
9357 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
9358 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
9362 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
9363 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
9364 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
9365 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
9366 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
9367 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
9368 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
9370 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
9371 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
9373 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
9374 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
9375 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
9377 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
9378 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
9379 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
9381 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9382 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
9383 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
9384 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
9386 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
9387 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
9389 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
9390 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
9391 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
9394 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9395 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
9396 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
9397 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
9398 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
9399 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
9400 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
9401 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
9402 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
9403 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
9404 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
9405 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
9406 other than file-not-found.
9407 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
9408 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
9409 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
9410 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
9411 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
9412 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
9413 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
9414 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
9415 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
9416 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
9417 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
9418 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
9419 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
9420 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
9421 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
9423 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
9425 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
9426 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
9428 o Minor features (controller):
9429 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
9430 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
9431 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
9433 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
9434 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
9435 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
9436 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
9437 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
9438 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
9439 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
9440 connected or resolved cell.
9442 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
9443 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
9444 some profiles, but not others.)
9445 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
9446 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
9447 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
9450 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
9452 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
9453 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
9454 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
9455 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
9456 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
9457 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
9458 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
9459 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
9460 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
9461 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
9462 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
9463 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
9464 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
9465 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
9466 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
9468 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
9471 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
9472 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
9473 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
9474 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
9475 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
9476 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
9477 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
9479 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
9480 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
9481 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
9482 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
9483 buckets go absurdly negative.
9484 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
9485 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
9488 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
9489 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
9490 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
9491 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
9492 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
9493 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
9494 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
9495 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
9498 o Major bugfixes (other):
9499 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
9500 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
9501 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
9502 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
9504 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
9506 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
9507 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
9509 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
9510 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
9511 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
9512 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
9513 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
9516 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
9517 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
9518 possible memory-stomping bugs.
9519 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
9520 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
9522 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
9523 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
9524 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
9525 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
9526 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
9527 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
9529 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9530 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
9531 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
9532 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
9534 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
9535 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
9536 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
9537 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
9538 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
9539 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
9540 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
9541 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
9542 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
9543 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
9544 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
9545 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
9546 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
9548 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
9549 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
9550 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
9551 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
9552 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
9553 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
9554 to the resulting address.
9557 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
9558 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
9559 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
9560 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
9563 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
9564 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
9566 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
9567 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
9568 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
9569 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
9570 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
9571 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
9572 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
9573 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
9574 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
9575 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
9576 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
9577 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
9578 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
9579 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
9580 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
9581 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
9582 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
9585 o Minor features (controller):
9586 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
9587 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
9588 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
9589 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
9590 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
9591 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
9592 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
9596 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
9598 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
9599 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
9600 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
9601 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
9602 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
9603 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
9606 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
9607 weren't planning to resolve.
9608 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
9609 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
9610 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
9611 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
9612 the controller from learning about current events.
9614 o Minor features (more controller status events):
9615 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
9616 learn when our address changes.
9617 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
9618 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
9619 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
9620 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
9622 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
9623 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
9624 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
9625 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
9626 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
9627 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
9628 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
9629 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
9630 are accepted by a directory.
9631 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
9632 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
9633 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
9634 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
9635 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
9637 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
9638 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
9639 about changes to DNS server status.
9641 o Minor features (directory):
9642 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
9643 too much load to the exit nodes.
9646 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
9648 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
9649 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
9650 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
9651 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
9652 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
9654 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
9655 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
9656 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
9658 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
9659 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
9660 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
9661 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
9662 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
9663 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
9664 config options if you like.
9666 o Minor features (config and docs):
9667 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
9668 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
9669 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
9670 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
9671 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
9673 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
9674 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
9675 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
9676 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
9677 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
9679 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
9680 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
9681 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
9682 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
9683 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
9684 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
9685 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
9686 documentation: "make check-docs".
9687 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
9688 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
9690 o Minor features (DNS):
9691 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
9692 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
9693 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
9694 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
9695 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
9696 our tests for DNS hijacking.
9698 o Minor features (directory):
9699 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
9700 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
9701 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
9702 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
9703 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
9704 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
9705 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
9706 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
9707 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
9708 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
9709 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
9710 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
9711 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
9712 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
9713 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
9714 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
9715 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
9716 for the thing we're trying to download.
9717 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
9718 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
9719 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
9721 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
9722 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
9723 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
9726 o Minor features (controller):
9727 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
9728 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
9730 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
9731 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
9732 entry guard status as it changes.
9734 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
9735 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
9736 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
9737 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
9739 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
9740 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
9741 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
9742 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
9745 o Major bugfixes (security):
9746 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
9747 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
9748 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
9749 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
9751 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
9752 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
9753 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
9754 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
9755 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
9757 o Major bugfixes (other):
9758 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
9759 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
9760 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
9761 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
9763 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
9764 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
9765 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
9766 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
9767 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
9768 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
9772 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
9773 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
9774 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
9775 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
9776 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
9778 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
9779 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
9781 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
9782 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
9783 family lists conveniently.
9784 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
9785 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
9786 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
9788 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
9789 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
9791 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
9792 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
9793 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
9794 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
9795 if their identity keys are as expected.
9796 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
9797 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
9798 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
9800 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9801 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
9802 reported by Mike Perry.
9803 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
9804 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
9805 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
9806 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
9809 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
9810 o Security bugfixes:
9811 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
9812 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
9813 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
9814 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
9818 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
9819 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
9820 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
9823 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
9825 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
9826 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
9827 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
9830 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
9831 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
9832 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
9833 watching for STREAM events.
9834 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
9835 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
9836 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
9837 operations, for profiling.
9840 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
9841 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
9842 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
9843 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
9844 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
9845 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
9847 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
9851 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
9852 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
9853 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
9854 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
9855 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
9857 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
9858 correctly in the Windows installer.
9859 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
9860 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
9861 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
9863 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
9864 when we're running as a client.
9867 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
9869 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
9870 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
9871 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
9872 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
9873 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
9874 its circuits on demand.
9875 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
9876 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
9877 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
9878 connections more stable on average.
9879 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
9880 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
9881 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
9883 o Security bugfixes:
9884 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
9885 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
9888 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
9890 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
9891 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
9892 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
9893 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
9894 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
9895 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
9896 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
9897 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
9900 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
9902 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
9903 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
9904 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
9905 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
9906 routers for even longer.
9907 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
9908 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
9909 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
9910 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
9911 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
9912 caching HTTP proxies.
9913 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
9916 o Minor features, controller:
9917 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
9918 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
9919 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
9920 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
9922 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
9923 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
9924 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
9925 working much like those for circuit events.
9926 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
9927 about the current status of a router.
9928 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
9929 a router's status has changed.
9930 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
9931 can tell which events and features are supported.
9932 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
9933 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
9935 o Security bugfixes:
9936 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
9937 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
9940 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
9941 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
9942 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
9943 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
9944 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
9945 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
9946 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
9947 long nicknames where appropriate.
9948 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
9949 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
9950 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
9951 chews through many circuits before giving up.
9952 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
9953 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
9954 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
9955 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
9956 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
9957 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
9959 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
9960 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
9961 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
9963 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
9964 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
9965 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
9966 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
9967 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
9968 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
9969 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
9970 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
9971 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
9972 (reported by fookoowa).
9973 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
9974 and reported by some Centos users.
9975 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
9976 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
9977 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
9978 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
9979 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
9980 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
9981 before we check for libevent.
9984 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
9986 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
9987 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
9988 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
9989 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
9990 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
9991 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
9992 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
9993 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
9994 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
9995 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
9996 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
9997 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
9998 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
9999 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
10000 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
10001 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
10002 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
10003 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
10004 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
10005 lets you turn it off.
10006 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
10007 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
10008 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
10009 us into the directory more quickly.
10011 o New/improved config options:
10012 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
10013 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
10014 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
10015 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
10016 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
10017 all the machines on the same subnet.
10018 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
10019 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
10020 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
10021 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
10022 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
10023 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
10024 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
10025 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
10026 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
10027 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
10029 o Minor features, controller:
10030 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
10031 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
10032 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
10033 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
10034 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
10035 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
10036 for more information.
10037 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
10038 best guess to the user.
10039 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
10040 descriptor has changed.
10041 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
10043 o Minor features, other:
10044 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
10045 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
10046 useful to the network.
10047 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
10048 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
10049 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
10050 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
10051 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
10052 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
10053 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
10054 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
10055 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
10056 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
10057 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
10058 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
10059 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
10060 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
10061 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
10063 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
10064 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
10065 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
10066 could return an unnamed server instead.
10067 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
10068 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
10069 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
10070 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
10071 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
10072 a more attractive target for compromise.)
10073 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
10074 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
10075 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
10077 o Major bugfixes, other:
10078 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
10079 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
10080 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
10081 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
10082 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
10083 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
10084 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
10085 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
10086 its circuits on demand.
10087 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
10088 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
10089 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
10090 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
10092 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
10093 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
10094 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
10095 we don't recognize.
10096 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
10098 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
10099 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
10100 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
10101 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
10102 "extendcircuit" request.
10103 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
10104 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
10105 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
10107 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
10108 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
10109 instead of "X resolved to X".
10110 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
10111 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
10112 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
10113 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
10114 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
10115 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
10116 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
10117 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
10118 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
10120 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
10121 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
10122 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
10123 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
10124 result more than once.
10125 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
10126 non-versioning dirservers.
10127 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
10128 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
10130 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
10131 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
10132 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
10133 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
10134 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
10135 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
10136 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
10137 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
10138 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
10140 o Packaging, features:
10141 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
10142 now universal binaries.
10143 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
10144 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
10145 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
10147 o Packaging, bugfixes:
10148 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
10149 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
10150 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
10151 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
10153 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
10154 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
10155 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
10158 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
10159 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
10160 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
10164 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
10166 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
10167 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
10168 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
10169 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
10170 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
10171 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
10172 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
10173 it can't resolve its hostname.
10176 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
10177 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
10178 "extendcircuit" request.
10179 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
10180 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
10181 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
10182 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
10184 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
10185 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
10186 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
10188 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
10189 methods: these are known to be buggy.
10190 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
10191 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
10192 we don't recognize.
10195 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
10197 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
10198 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
10199 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
10200 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
10201 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
10202 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
10203 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
10204 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
10205 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
10206 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
10207 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
10208 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
10209 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
10210 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
10211 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
10212 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
10213 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
10214 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
10215 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
10216 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
10217 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
10218 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
10219 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
10220 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
10223 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
10224 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
10225 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
10226 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
10227 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
10228 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
10229 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
10230 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
10231 recommendation system saner.)
10232 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
10234 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
10235 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
10236 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
10237 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
10238 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
10239 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
10240 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
10241 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
10242 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
10243 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
10244 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
10245 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
10246 your ORPort is set.
10247 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
10248 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
10249 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
10250 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
10251 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
10252 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
10253 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
10254 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
10255 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
10256 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
10257 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
10258 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
10260 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
10261 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
10262 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
10263 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
10264 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
10265 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
10268 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
10269 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
10270 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
10271 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
10272 our DirPort now, etc.
10273 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
10274 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
10275 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
10276 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
10277 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
10278 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
10279 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
10281 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
10282 whether the config options are bad or good.
10283 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
10284 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
10285 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
10286 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
10287 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
10288 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
10289 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
10290 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
10293 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
10294 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
10295 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
10296 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
10297 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
10298 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
10299 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
10300 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
10301 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
10302 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
10303 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
10304 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
10305 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
10306 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
10307 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
10308 of it), is not therefore "up".
10309 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
10310 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
10311 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
10312 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
10313 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
10314 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
10317 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
10319 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
10320 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
10321 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
10322 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
10323 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
10324 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
10325 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
10326 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
10327 test reachability, so you won't publish.
10330 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
10331 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
10332 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
10333 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
10334 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
10336 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
10337 own server descriptor yet.
10340 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
10342 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
10343 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
10344 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
10345 make sure to test via one of these.
10346 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
10347 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
10348 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
10349 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
10350 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
10352 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
10353 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
10354 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
10357 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
10358 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
10359 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
10360 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
10361 directory authority.
10362 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
10363 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
10364 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
10365 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
10368 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
10369 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
10370 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
10372 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
10373 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
10374 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
10375 current guards when picking a new guard.
10376 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
10377 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
10378 when we had more than one pending.
10379 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
10380 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
10381 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
10382 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
10383 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
10384 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
10385 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
10386 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
10387 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
10388 debug the reachability problems better.
10390 o Log / documentation fixes:
10391 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
10392 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
10393 about protocol violations by others.
10394 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
10395 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
10396 about what happened to our old torrc.
10399 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
10401 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
10403 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
10404 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
10405 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
10406 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
10409 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
10411 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
10412 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
10413 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
10414 old ORPort and receive connections.
10415 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
10417 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
10418 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
10419 and network-statuses.
10420 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
10421 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
10422 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
10423 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
10425 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
10428 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
10429 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
10430 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
10433 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
10435 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
10436 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
10437 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
10438 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
10439 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
10442 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
10443 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
10445 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
10446 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
10447 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
10448 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
10449 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
10450 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
10451 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
10452 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
10453 rather than not sending anything back at all.
10454 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
10455 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
10456 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
10457 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
10458 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
10459 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
10460 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
10461 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
10462 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
10463 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
10464 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
10465 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
10466 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
10467 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
10468 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
10469 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
10470 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
10471 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
10472 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
10473 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
10474 default ulimit -n is 1024.
10477 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
10478 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
10479 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
10480 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
10483 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
10485 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
10486 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
10487 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
10488 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
10489 entry guards running these flawed versions.
10490 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
10491 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
10492 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
10493 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
10494 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
10497 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
10498 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
10500 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
10501 and it is confusing some users.
10502 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
10503 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
10504 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
10505 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
10506 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
10509 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
10511 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
10512 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
10513 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
10514 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
10515 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
10516 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
10517 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
10518 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
10519 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
10520 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
10521 dirport is set for now.
10523 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
10524 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
10525 unattached before we fail it?
10526 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
10527 at least this many seconds ago.
10528 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
10529 at least this many seconds ago.
10532 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
10533 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
10534 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
10535 or resolve-wait stream.
10536 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
10537 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
10538 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
10539 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
10540 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
10541 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
10542 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
10543 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
10545 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
10546 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
10547 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
10548 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
10549 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
10550 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
10551 given as hex digests.
10552 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
10553 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
10554 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
10555 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
10556 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
10557 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
10558 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
10559 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
10562 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10563 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
10564 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
10565 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
10566 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
10567 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
10568 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
10569 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
10570 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
10571 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
10572 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
10575 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
10576 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
10577 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
10578 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
10579 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
10580 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
10581 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
10584 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
10585 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
10586 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
10587 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
10588 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
10589 misreading their logs.
10590 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
10591 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
10592 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
10593 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
10594 valid router descriptors.
10595 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
10596 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
10597 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
10598 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
10599 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
10600 silently resetting it to its default.
10601 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
10603 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
10606 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
10607 use clean circuits.
10608 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
10609 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
10610 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
10611 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
10612 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
10614 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
10615 because older Tors do not understand it.
10616 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
10620 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
10621 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
10622 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
10623 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
10624 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
10625 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
10626 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
10627 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
10628 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
10629 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
10630 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
10632 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
10633 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
10634 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
10635 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
10637 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
10638 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
10641 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
10642 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
10643 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
10644 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
10645 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
10646 without getting overloaded.
10647 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
10649 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
10650 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
10651 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
10652 be forward-compatible.
10653 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
10654 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
10655 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
10656 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
10658 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
10659 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
10660 and OR conns to port 443.
10661 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
10662 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
10664 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
10665 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
10666 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
10667 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
10668 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
10669 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
10670 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
10673 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
10674 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10675 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
10676 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
10678 o Other important bugfixes:
10679 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
10680 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
10681 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
10682 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
10684 o Backported features:
10685 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
10686 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
10687 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
10688 without getting overloaded.
10689 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
10690 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
10691 503's whenever they feel busy.
10692 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
10693 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
10694 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
10695 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
10696 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
10699 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
10700 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
10701 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
10702 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
10703 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
10704 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
10705 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
10706 know if the crashes continue.
10707 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
10708 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
10709 seg faults in at least some cases.)
10710 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
10711 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
10712 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
10715 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
10716 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
10717 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
10718 try to be a bit more fair.
10719 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
10720 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
10721 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
10722 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
10723 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
10724 bug that let it go negative.
10725 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
10726 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
10727 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
10728 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
10729 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
10730 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
10731 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
10732 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
10733 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
10734 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
10735 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
10738 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
10740 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
10741 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
10742 service descriptors.
10745 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
10746 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
10747 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
10748 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
10750 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
10751 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
10752 versions *are* still recommended.
10753 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
10754 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
10755 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
10756 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
10757 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
10758 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
10759 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
10760 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
10762 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
10763 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
10764 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
10765 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
10766 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
10767 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
10768 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
10769 on it. Not used by clients yet.
10770 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
10771 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
10772 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
10773 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
10774 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
10775 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
10776 established a circuit.
10777 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
10778 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
10779 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
10780 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
10783 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
10784 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
10785 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
10786 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
10787 quickly enough. Oops.
10788 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
10790 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10791 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
10794 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
10795 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
10796 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
10797 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
10798 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
10799 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
10800 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
10801 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
10802 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
10803 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
10804 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
10805 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
10806 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
10807 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
10808 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
10809 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
10810 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
10813 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
10814 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
10815 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
10816 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
10817 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
10818 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
10819 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
10820 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
10821 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
10822 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
10823 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
10824 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
10825 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
10826 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
10827 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
10828 connections more reliable.
10831 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
10832 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
10833 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
10834 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
10835 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
10836 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
10837 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
10838 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
10839 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
10840 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
10841 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
10842 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
10843 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
10844 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
10848 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
10849 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
10850 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
10851 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
10852 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
10853 need to be uint64_t's.
10854 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
10855 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
10856 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
10858 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
10860 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
10861 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
10862 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
10863 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
10864 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
10865 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
10866 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
10868 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
10869 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
10870 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
10871 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
10872 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
10873 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
10874 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
10875 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
10876 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
10877 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
10878 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
10879 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
10880 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
10883 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
10884 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
10885 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
10886 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
10887 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
10888 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
10889 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
10891 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
10892 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
10893 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
10894 can answer v2 directory requests too.
10895 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
10896 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
10897 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
10898 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
10900 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
10901 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
10902 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
10903 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
10904 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
10905 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
10906 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
10907 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
10908 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
10909 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
10910 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
10911 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
10912 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
10913 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
10914 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
10916 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
10917 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
10920 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
10921 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10922 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
10923 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
10924 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
10925 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
10926 too -- so detect and avoid this.
10927 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
10929 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
10930 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
10931 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
10932 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
10933 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
10934 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
10935 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
10936 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
10937 rendezvous circuits.
10938 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
10940 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10941 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
10942 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
10943 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
10944 advertising it because of hibernation.
10945 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
10946 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
10947 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
10948 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
10949 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
10950 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
10951 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
10952 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
10953 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
10954 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
10955 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
10956 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
10957 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
10958 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
10961 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
10962 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10963 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
10964 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
10965 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
10966 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
10967 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
10968 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
10969 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
10970 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
10971 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
10972 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
10973 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
10974 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
10975 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
10976 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
10977 connections once a week.
10978 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
10979 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
10980 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
10981 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
10982 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
10983 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
10985 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
10986 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
10987 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
10989 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
10990 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
10991 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
10992 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
10993 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
10994 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
10995 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
10996 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
10997 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
10998 firewall options forbid.
10999 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
11000 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
11001 can only proxy to certain destinations.
11002 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
11003 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
11004 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
11005 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
11006 aids some statistical attacks.
11007 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
11008 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
11009 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
11010 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
11012 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
11013 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
11014 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
11015 server descriptor sometimes.
11016 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
11017 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
11018 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
11019 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
11020 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
11021 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
11022 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
11023 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
11025 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
11026 case the controller wants to change that too.
11027 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
11028 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
11029 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
11030 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
11032 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
11033 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
11034 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
11036 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
11037 descriptors that they know they will reject.
11039 o Features and updates:
11040 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
11041 significantly faster.
11042 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
11043 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
11044 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
11045 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
11046 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
11047 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
11048 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
11049 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
11050 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
11051 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
11052 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
11053 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
11054 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
11055 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
11056 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
11057 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
11058 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
11059 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
11060 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
11061 as authoritative dirserver.
11062 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
11063 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
11064 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
11067 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
11068 o Usability improvements:
11069 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
11070 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
11072 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
11073 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
11074 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
11076 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
11077 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
11078 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
11079 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
11080 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
11081 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
11082 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
11083 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
11084 memory leaks better.
11085 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
11086 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
11087 their operators to pay close attention.
11088 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
11089 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
11091 o Performance improvements:
11092 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
11093 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
11094 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
11095 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
11096 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
11097 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
11098 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
11099 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
11100 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
11101 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
11102 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
11103 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
11104 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
11105 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
11106 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
11107 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
11108 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
11110 o Security improvements:
11111 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
11112 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
11113 fingerprint of server.
11114 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
11115 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
11116 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
11118 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11119 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
11120 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
11121 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
11122 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
11123 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
11124 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
11125 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
11126 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
11127 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
11128 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
11129 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
11130 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
11131 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
11132 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
11133 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
11134 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
11135 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
11136 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
11137 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
11138 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
11140 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
11141 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
11142 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
11144 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
11145 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
11147 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
11148 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
11149 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
11150 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
11151 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
11152 of the controller protocol.
11153 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
11154 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
11155 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
11158 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
11159 o New features (major):
11160 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
11161 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
11162 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
11163 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
11164 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
11165 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
11166 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
11167 we're using a default DirPort.
11168 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
11170 o New features (minor):
11171 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
11172 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
11173 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
11174 mirrors still cache and serve it).
11175 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
11176 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
11177 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
11178 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
11179 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
11180 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
11181 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
11182 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
11183 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
11184 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
11185 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
11186 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
11187 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
11188 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
11189 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
11191 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
11192 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
11193 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
11194 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
11195 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
11196 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
11197 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
11198 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
11200 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
11201 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
11202 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
11203 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
11204 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
11205 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
11206 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
11207 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
11208 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
11209 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
11211 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
11212 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
11213 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
11214 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
11215 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
11217 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
11218 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
11219 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
11221 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
11222 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
11224 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
11225 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
11226 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
11227 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
11228 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
11229 don't warn twice about the same name.
11230 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
11231 if we've not heard of the server.
11232 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
11233 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
11236 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
11237 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11238 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
11239 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
11240 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
11241 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
11242 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
11243 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
11244 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
11245 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
11246 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
11247 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
11248 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
11249 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
11250 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
11253 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
11254 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
11255 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
11256 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
11257 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
11259 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
11260 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
11261 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
11262 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
11263 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
11264 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
11268 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
11269 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
11270 nickname) is reachable by you.
11271 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
11274 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
11275 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
11276 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
11277 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
11278 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
11279 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
11280 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
11281 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
11282 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
11283 we fail to connect).
11284 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
11285 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
11286 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
11287 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
11289 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
11290 it was self-testing that told us so.
11293 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
11294 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
11295 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
11296 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
11297 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
11298 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
11299 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
11300 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
11301 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
11302 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
11303 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
11304 exit policy using him for any exits.
11305 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
11308 o New controller features/fixes:
11309 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
11310 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
11311 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
11312 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
11313 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
11314 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
11315 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
11316 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
11317 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
11319 o Start on the new directory design:
11320 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
11321 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
11323 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
11324 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
11325 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
11326 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
11328 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
11329 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
11330 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
11331 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
11332 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
11333 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
11334 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
11335 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
11338 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
11339 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
11340 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
11341 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
11342 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
11343 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
11344 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
11345 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
11346 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
11347 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
11349 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
11350 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
11351 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
11352 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
11353 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
11354 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
11355 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
11356 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
11357 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
11359 o Config option changes:
11360 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
11361 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
11362 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
11363 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
11364 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
11365 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
11367 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
11368 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
11369 people have started using them for spam too.
11370 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
11371 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
11372 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
11373 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
11374 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
11375 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
11376 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
11377 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
11378 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
11379 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
11380 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
11381 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
11382 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
11383 services faster on the service end.
11384 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
11385 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
11386 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
11387 it a fair shake next time we try.
11388 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
11389 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
11390 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
11391 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
11392 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
11393 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
11394 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
11395 able to discover them.
11396 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
11397 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
11398 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
11399 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
11400 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
11401 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
11402 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
11403 testing for reachability.
11404 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
11405 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
11407 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
11409 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
11410 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
11413 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
11414 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
11416 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11417 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
11418 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
11419 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
11422 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
11423 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11424 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
11426 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
11427 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
11430 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
11431 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
11434 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
11435 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
11436 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
11437 options, getinfo keys.
11440 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
11441 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11442 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
11443 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
11444 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
11445 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
11446 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
11448 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
11449 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
11453 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
11454 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
11455 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
11457 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
11459 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
11460 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
11461 circuit events and we go offline.
11462 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
11463 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
11464 you don't have enough intro points already.
11466 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
11467 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
11468 many bytes we've used in this time period.
11469 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
11470 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
11471 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
11472 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
11473 enabled by default yet.
11475 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
11476 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
11477 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
11478 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
11479 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
11482 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
11483 o New directory servers:
11484 - tor26 has changed IP address.
11486 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11487 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
11488 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
11489 pthreads libraries.
11490 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
11491 claims its dirport is 0.
11492 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
11493 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
11497 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
11498 o New directory servers:
11499 - tor26 has changed IP address.
11501 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
11502 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
11504 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
11505 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
11506 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
11507 ports that have changed.
11508 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
11510 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
11511 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
11512 Windows-style errno back.
11513 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
11515 want to make it an NT service.
11516 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
11517 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
11518 name, give the full name in our response.
11519 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
11520 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
11521 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
11522 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
11523 pthreads libraries.
11525 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
11526 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
11530 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
11531 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
11532 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
11533 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
11534 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
11537 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
11538 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11539 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
11540 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
11541 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
11542 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
11543 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
11544 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
11547 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
11549 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
11550 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
11551 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
11552 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
11553 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
11554 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
11556 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
11557 temporarily unreachable.
11558 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
11562 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
11563 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
11564 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
11565 our protocol works.
11566 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
11570 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
11571 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
11572 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
11573 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
11574 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
11578 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
11579 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
11580 libevent before 1.1a.
11583 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
11585 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
11586 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
11587 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
11588 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
11589 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
11591 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
11592 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
11593 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
11594 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
11595 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
11596 of CPU time plus memory.
11597 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
11598 normal web requests.
11599 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
11600 tor_lookup_hostname().
11601 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
11602 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
11603 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
11604 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
11605 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
11606 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
11608 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
11609 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
11610 HttpProxyAuthenticator
11611 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
11612 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
11613 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
11615 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
11616 the user asks you to.
11617 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
11618 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
11619 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
11620 their descriptors are being rejected.
11621 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
11625 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
11627 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
11628 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
11629 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
11631 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
11633 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
11635 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
11636 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
11637 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
11638 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
11639 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
11640 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
11641 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
11642 keys) from the exit server's process.
11643 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
11644 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
11645 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
11646 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
11647 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
11648 point at your Tor server.
11649 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
11650 you're not sending a socks reply back.
11653 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
11654 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
11655 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
11656 to make it easier to write controllers.
11659 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
11661 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
11662 installing on Tiger.
11663 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
11664 complain during installation.
11665 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
11666 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
11667 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
11668 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
11669 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
11670 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
11672 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
11673 something more reasonable when first installing.
11674 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
11677 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
11679 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
11680 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
11682 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
11683 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
11684 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
11685 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
11686 when using the default exit policy.
11687 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
11688 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
11689 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
11690 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
11691 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
11692 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
11693 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
11694 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
11695 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
11696 we fetched a new directory.
11697 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
11698 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
11701 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
11702 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
11703 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
11704 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
11705 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
11706 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
11707 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
11708 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
11710 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
11711 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
11712 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
11713 save memory on systems that need to fork.
11714 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
11715 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
11716 is valid without actually launching Tor.
11717 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
11718 rather than just rejecting it.
11721 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
11723 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
11724 we didn't like its cert.
11726 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
11727 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
11728 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
11729 on patch from Adam Langley.
11730 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
11731 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
11732 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
11733 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
11735 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
11736 directory every time you regenerate it.
11737 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
11738 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
11741 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
11742 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
11743 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
11744 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
11745 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
11748 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
11750 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
11751 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
11752 TLS errors better in other situations too.
11753 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
11754 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
11755 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
11756 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
11757 and don't log when you are.
11758 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
11759 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
11761 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
11762 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
11763 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
11764 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
11765 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
11768 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
11769 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
11770 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
11771 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
11772 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
11773 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
11774 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
11775 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
11776 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
11777 nickname+key are allowed.
11778 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
11779 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
11780 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
11781 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
11782 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
11783 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
11784 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
11785 have quite wrong clocks).
11786 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
11787 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
11788 - Efficiency improvements:
11789 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
11790 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
11791 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
11792 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
11793 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
11794 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
11795 lowercase and be done with it.
11796 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
11797 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
11798 to abandon partially built circuits.
11799 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
11800 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
11802 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
11804 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
11805 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
11806 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
11807 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
11809 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
11810 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
11812 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
11813 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
11814 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
11815 obeying the exit policy internally.
11816 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
11817 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
11819 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
11820 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
11821 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
11822 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
11824 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
11825 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
11826 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
11827 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
11828 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
11830 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
11831 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
11832 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
11833 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
11834 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
11835 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
11836 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
11837 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
11838 descriptors we just dropped.
11839 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
11840 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
11841 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
11842 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
11843 artificially capped at 500kB.
11846 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
11847 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
11848 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
11849 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
11850 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
11851 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
11852 busy for more than 100 seconds.
11855 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
11856 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
11857 - Fixes on reachability detection:
11858 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
11859 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
11860 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
11861 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
11862 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
11863 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
11864 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
11865 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
11866 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
11867 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
11868 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
11869 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
11870 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
11871 server not already connected to them.
11872 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
11873 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
11874 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
11876 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
11878 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
11879 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
11880 are in a different state than they actually are.
11881 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
11882 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
11883 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
11885 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
11886 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
11887 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
11889 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
11890 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
11891 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
11892 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
11893 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
11894 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
11895 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
11897 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
11898 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
11899 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
11900 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
11903 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
11904 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
11905 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
11906 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
11907 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
11908 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
11909 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
11910 creating actual system users.
11911 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
11912 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
11916 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
11918 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
11919 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
11920 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
11921 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
11922 hidden services better.
11923 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
11925 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
11926 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
11927 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
11928 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
11929 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
11930 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
11931 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
11932 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
11933 patch by Matt Edman).
11934 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
11935 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
11936 required exit node for certain sites.
11937 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
11938 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
11939 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
11940 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
11941 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
11942 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
11943 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
11944 rather than just "success" or "failure".
11945 - A more sane version numbering system. See
11946 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
11947 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
11948 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
11950 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
11951 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
11952 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
11953 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
11954 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
11955 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
11956 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
11958 o Robustness/stability fixes:
11959 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
11960 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
11961 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
11963 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
11964 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
11965 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
11967 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
11968 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
11969 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
11971 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
11972 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
11973 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
11974 that will want high uptime circuits.
11975 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
11976 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
11977 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
11978 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
11979 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
11980 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
11981 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
11982 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
11983 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
11984 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
11985 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
11986 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
11987 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
11988 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
11989 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
11990 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
11991 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
11992 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
11993 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
11994 when we try to launch one.
11995 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
11996 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
11997 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
11998 "ShutdownWaitLength".
11999 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
12000 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
12001 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
12002 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
12003 and to take errno into account where possible.
12006 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
12007 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
12008 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
12009 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
12010 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
12011 file more reasonable.
12012 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
12013 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
12014 addresses -- it won't.
12015 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
12016 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
12017 for google.com" problem.
12018 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
12019 so it's not just "unknown platform".
12020 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
12021 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
12022 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
12023 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
12025 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
12026 they could use instead.
12027 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
12028 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
12029 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
12030 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
12031 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
12032 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
12033 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
12034 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
12035 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
12037 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
12041 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
12042 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
12044 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
12045 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
12046 private-IP addresses.
12047 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
12048 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
12050 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
12051 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
12052 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
12053 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
12054 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
12055 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
12056 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
12058 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
12059 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
12060 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
12061 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
12062 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
12063 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
12064 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
12065 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
12067 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
12069 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
12070 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
12071 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
12072 whether the server is hibernating.
12075 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
12076 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
12077 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
12078 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
12079 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
12080 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
12081 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
12082 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
12083 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
12084 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
12085 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
12086 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
12087 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
12088 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
12089 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
12091 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
12092 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
12093 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
12094 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
12095 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
12096 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
12097 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
12098 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
12099 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
12100 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
12101 existing torrc files.
12102 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
12105 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
12106 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
12107 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
12108 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
12109 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
12110 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
12111 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
12112 the win32 SYSTEM account.
12113 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
12114 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
12115 file descriptors available.
12116 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
12117 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
12118 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
12121 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
12122 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
12123 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
12124 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
12126 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
12127 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
12128 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
12129 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
12130 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
12132 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
12133 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
12134 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
12135 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
12136 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
12137 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
12138 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
12139 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
12140 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
12141 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
12142 800kB/s of capacity.
12143 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
12146 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
12147 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
12148 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
12149 need as much processor time.
12150 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
12151 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
12152 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
12153 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
12154 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
12155 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
12156 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
12157 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
12158 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
12159 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
12160 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
12161 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
12163 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
12164 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
12165 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
12166 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
12167 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
12168 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
12169 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
12172 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
12173 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
12174 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
12176 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
12177 style address, then we'd crash.
12178 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
12179 a dirserver is broken.
12180 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
12182 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
12183 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
12184 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
12186 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
12187 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
12188 name out of the warning/assert messages.
12189 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
12190 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
12191 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
12193 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
12194 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
12195 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
12197 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
12199 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
12200 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
12201 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
12202 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
12203 values at once couldn't work.
12204 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
12205 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
12206 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
12207 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
12208 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
12209 they can handle any number of routers.
12210 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
12211 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
12212 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
12213 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
12214 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
12215 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
12216 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
12217 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
12218 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
12221 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
12222 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
12223 - Make hibernation actually work.
12224 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
12225 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
12226 don't use the stream status code.
12229 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
12231 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
12232 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
12234 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
12237 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
12238 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
12239 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
12240 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
12241 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
12242 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
12243 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
12244 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
12245 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
12246 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
12248 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12249 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
12250 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
12251 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
12252 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
12253 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
12254 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
12255 - Make unit tests work on win32.
12258 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
12259 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
12260 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
12262 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
12263 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
12264 than just chopping them off.
12265 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
12267 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12268 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
12269 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
12270 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
12271 right after sending the begin cell.
12272 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
12273 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
12274 exit nodes too. Oops.
12277 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
12278 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
12279 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
12280 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
12281 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
12282 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
12283 the user knows which one it's talking about.
12284 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
12285 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
12286 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
12289 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
12290 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12291 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
12292 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
12294 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
12296 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
12297 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
12298 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
12300 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
12301 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
12302 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
12303 Clip rather than rejecting.
12304 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
12305 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
12308 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
12309 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
12310 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
12311 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
12313 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
12316 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
12317 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12318 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
12319 win32 socket errors better.
12321 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
12322 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
12325 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
12326 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12327 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
12328 so we don't see those messages days later.
12330 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
12331 - Make tor-resolve work again.
12332 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
12333 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
12336 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
12337 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
12338 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
12339 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
12341 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
12342 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
12343 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
12346 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
12347 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12348 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
12349 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
12350 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
12351 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
12352 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
12353 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
12354 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
12356 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
12357 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
12358 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
12359 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
12361 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
12362 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
12365 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
12366 hibernation properties by
12367 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
12368 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
12369 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
12370 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
12371 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
12372 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
12373 get back to normal.)
12374 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
12376 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
12377 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
12378 to fill the last cell completely.
12379 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
12382 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
12383 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12384 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
12385 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
12386 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
12387 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
12388 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
12389 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
12390 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
12391 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
12392 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
12394 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
12395 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
12396 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
12397 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
12398 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
12399 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
12400 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
12401 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
12403 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
12404 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
12405 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
12406 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
12407 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
12408 have it on start-up.
12411 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
12412 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
12413 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
12414 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
12415 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
12416 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
12417 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
12418 configuration to torrc.
12419 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
12420 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
12421 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
12422 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
12423 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
12425 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
12426 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
12427 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
12428 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
12429 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
12430 log more informatively.
12431 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
12432 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
12433 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
12434 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
12435 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
12436 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
12437 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
12438 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
12439 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
12440 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
12441 from each other, to hinder linkability.
12444 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
12445 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
12446 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
12447 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
12448 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
12449 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
12450 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
12452 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
12453 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
12454 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
12455 they ran out of file descriptors.
12456 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
12457 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
12458 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
12459 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
12460 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
12461 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
12462 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
12464 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
12467 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
12468 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
12469 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
12470 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
12471 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
12472 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
12473 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
12474 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
12475 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
12476 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
12477 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
12478 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
12479 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
12480 with the control port.
12481 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
12482 use in authenticating to the control interface.
12483 - New log format in config:
12484 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
12485 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
12488 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
12489 from their dirserver.
12490 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
12492 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
12493 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
12494 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
12495 them act more like real nodes.
12496 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
12497 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
12499 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
12500 nickname to its identity key.
12501 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
12502 not on the command line.
12503 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
12504 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
12505 1024) file descriptors.
12507 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
12508 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
12510 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
12511 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
12512 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
12515 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
12516 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
12517 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
12518 exit policy, not reject *:*.
12519 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
12520 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
12521 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
12522 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
12523 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
12524 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
12525 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
12528 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
12529 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
12530 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
12531 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
12532 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
12533 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
12534 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
12537 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
12538 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
12539 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
12540 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
12541 the ones we find in directories.)
12542 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
12544 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
12545 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
12547 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
12548 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
12549 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
12551 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
12552 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
12553 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
12554 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
12556 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
12557 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
12558 any more exit policy lines.
12561 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
12562 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
12563 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
12564 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
12565 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
12566 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
12567 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
12568 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
12569 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
12570 will be able to get a directory.
12571 - Http proxy support
12572 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
12573 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
12574 be routed through this host.
12575 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
12576 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
12577 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
12578 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
12581 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
12583 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
12584 clients/servers with an open dirport.
12585 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
12586 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
12587 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
12588 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
12589 intermittent connections.
12590 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
12591 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
12593 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
12594 in reporting stats locally.
12595 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
12596 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
12597 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
12600 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
12602 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
12603 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
12606 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
12608 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
12609 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
12610 if you don't want it open.
12611 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
12612 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
12613 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
12614 intermittent connections.
12615 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
12617 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
12618 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
12619 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
12620 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
12621 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
12622 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
12623 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
12624 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
12625 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
12626 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
12627 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
12628 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
12629 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
12630 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
12631 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
12632 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
12635 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
12636 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
12637 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
12638 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
12639 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
12641 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
12643 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
12644 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
12645 specified in HTTP 1.0.
12646 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
12647 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
12648 than once per minute.
12649 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
12650 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
12653 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
12654 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
12657 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
12658 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
12659 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
12660 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
12663 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
12664 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
12666 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
12667 don't put it into the client dns cache.
12668 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
12669 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
12670 until we get our next directory.
12672 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
12673 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
12674 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
12675 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
12676 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
12677 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
12678 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
12679 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
12680 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
12681 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
12682 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
12684 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
12686 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
12687 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
12689 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
12690 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
12691 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
12693 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
12695 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
12696 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
12697 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
12698 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
12699 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
12700 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
12701 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
12702 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
12705 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
12706 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
12707 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
12708 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
12711 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
12712 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
12713 ask them to resolve the host "".
12716 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
12717 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
12718 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
12719 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
12720 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
12721 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
12722 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
12723 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
12724 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
12725 clients don't use this yet.)
12726 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
12727 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
12728 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
12729 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
12730 for pointing out this bug.)
12731 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
12732 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
12733 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
12734 kazaa, gnutella ports.
12735 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
12737 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
12738 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
12739 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
12740 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
12741 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
12742 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
12743 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
12744 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
12745 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
12746 wolf unpredictably.
12747 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
12748 that's still handshaking.
12749 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
12750 you'll choose it for your path.
12751 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
12752 end relay cell, etc.
12753 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
12754 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
12755 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
12758 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
12759 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
12761 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
12762 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
12763 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
12764 list to decide who's running or verified.
12765 - Bugfixes and features:
12766 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
12767 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
12768 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
12769 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
12770 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
12771 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
12773 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
12774 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
12775 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
12776 know you might want to get it verified.
12777 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
12780 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
12782 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
12783 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
12784 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
12785 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
12787 o Protocol changes:
12788 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
12789 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
12790 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
12791 hadn't heard of before.
12794 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
12795 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
12796 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
12797 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
12798 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
12799 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
12800 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
12801 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
12802 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
12803 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
12804 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
12805 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
12806 - Directory caching.
12807 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
12808 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
12809 directory they've pulled down.
12810 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
12811 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
12812 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
12813 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
12814 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
12815 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
12816 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
12818 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
12819 This isn't used yet.
12820 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
12821 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
12822 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
12823 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
12824 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
12825 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
12826 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
12827 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
12828 - File and name management:
12829 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
12830 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
12832 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
12833 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
12834 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
12835 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
12836 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
12837 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
12838 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
12840 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
12841 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
12842 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
12843 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
12844 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
12846 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
12847 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
12848 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
12849 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
12850 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
12851 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
12852 - New docs in the tarball:
12854 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
12857 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
12858 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
12859 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
12862 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
12863 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
12864 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
12867 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
12868 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
12871 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
12872 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
12873 - Make it build on Win32 again.
12874 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
12875 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
12879 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
12881 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
12882 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
12883 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
12884 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
12885 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
12886 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
12887 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
12888 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
12889 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
12890 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
12893 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
12896 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
12897 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
12898 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
12899 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
12901 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
12902 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
12903 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
12905 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
12906 hidden service per 15-minute period.
12907 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
12908 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
12909 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
12910 o Fixes for security bugs:
12911 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
12912 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
12913 a trusted dirserver.
12915 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
12916 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
12917 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
12918 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
12919 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
12920 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
12921 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
12922 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
12923 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
12924 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
12926 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
12927 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
12928 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
12929 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
12931 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
12932 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
12933 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
12934 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
12935 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
12936 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
12937 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
12938 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
12939 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
12940 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
12941 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
12942 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
12943 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
12946 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
12947 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
12948 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
12949 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
12952 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
12953 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
12954 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
12955 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
12956 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
12957 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
12958 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
12962 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
12963 [version bump only]
12966 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
12967 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
12968 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
12969 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
12970 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
12972 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
12975 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
12976 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
12977 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
12978 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
12979 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
12980 o Better debugging for tls errors
12981 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
12982 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
12983 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
12984 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
12985 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
12986 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
12987 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
12988 o win32's close can't close a socket.
12991 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
12992 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
12993 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
12994 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
12995 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
12996 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
12997 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
12998 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
12999 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
13000 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
13001 just close the circ.
13002 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
13003 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
13004 (this was quite rare).
13007 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
13008 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
13009 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
13010 if you decrypted them correctly.
13011 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
13012 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
13013 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
13016 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
13017 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
13018 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
13019 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
13020 a second one and it works.
13021 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
13022 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
13023 alice would just have to wait to time out.
13024 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
13025 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
13026 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
13027 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
13028 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
13029 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
13030 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
13031 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
13032 i'd still like to find the bug though.
13033 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
13035 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
13039 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
13040 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
13041 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
13042 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
13043 he retries a couple of times
13044 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
13045 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
13046 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
13047 too long (they were sticking around forever).
13048 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
13052 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
13053 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
13054 - make hup work again
13055 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
13056 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
13057 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
13058 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
13059 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
13060 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
13062 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
13063 o changes from 0.0.5:
13064 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
13065 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
13066 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
13067 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
13068 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
13070 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
13071 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
13072 in-memory directories too
13075 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
13076 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
13079 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
13081 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
13082 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
13083 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
13084 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
13087 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
13088 [version bump only]
13091 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
13092 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
13094 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
13095 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
13096 but that aren't warnings
13099 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
13100 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
13101 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
13102 the dns farm to do it.
13103 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
13104 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
13106 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
13107 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
13108 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
13111 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
13112 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
13113 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
13114 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
13115 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
13116 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
13117 expect it to have a nickname.
13118 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
13119 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
13122 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
13123 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
13127 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
13128 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
13129 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
13130 - include missing header fcntl.h
13131 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
13132 - deal with hardware word alignment
13133 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
13134 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
13135 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
13136 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
13137 by kill -USR1 currently.
13138 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
13139 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
13140 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
13143 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
13144 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
13145 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
13148 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
13150 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
13151 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
13152 - And fix a few endian issues.
13155 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
13157 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
13158 try that circuit again: try a new one.
13159 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
13160 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
13161 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
13162 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
13163 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
13164 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
13166 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
13167 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
13168 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
13170 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
13172 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
13173 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
13174 side isn't reading right then.
13175 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
13176 RecommendedVersions
13177 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
13178 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
13179 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
13182 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
13184 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
13185 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
13188 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
13192 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
13194 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
13195 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
13196 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
13197 connection is finished.
13198 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
13199 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
13200 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
13201 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
13202 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
13203 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
13204 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
13205 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
13206 rather than warn and continue.
13207 - Make --version work
13208 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
13211 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
13213 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
13214 knows it's working.
13215 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
13216 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
13218 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
13219 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
13220 so you can collect coredumps there.
13222 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
13223 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
13224 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
13225 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
13226 dns cache actually gets populated.
13227 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
13228 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
13229 end cell down it first.
13230 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
13231 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
13234 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
13236 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
13237 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
13239 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
13240 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
13241 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
13242 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
13243 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
13244 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
13246 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
13248 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
13249 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
13250 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
13251 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
13252 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
13253 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
13255 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
13256 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
13259 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
13261 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
13262 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
13263 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
13264 tor. It even has a man page.
13265 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
13266 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
13267 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
13268 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
13270 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
13272 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
13275 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
13277 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
13278 it, apt-getters. :)
13279 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
13280 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
13281 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
13282 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
13283 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
13284 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
13285 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
13286 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
13287 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
13288 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
13289 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
13291 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
13292 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
13295 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
13297 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
13298 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
13301 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
13303 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
13304 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
13305 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
13306 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
13307 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
13308 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
13309 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
13310 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
13311 logfile so you know it's working.
13312 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
13313 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
13316 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
13318 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
13319 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
13320 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
13323 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
13325 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
13326 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
13327 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
13330 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
13331 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
13332 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
13334 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
13335 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
13337 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
13338 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
13339 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
13341 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
13342 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
13346 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
13348 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
13349 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
13350 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
13353 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
13354 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
13355 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
13356 - Add port ranges to exit policies
13357 - Add a conservative default exit policy
13358 - Warn if you're running tor as root
13359 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
13360 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
13361 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
13362 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
13364 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
13367 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
13368 o Robustness and bugfixes:
13369 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
13370 really screw things up.
13371 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
13373 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
13374 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
13376 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
13377 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
13378 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
13379 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
13380 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
13381 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
13384 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
13387 - Change default loglevel to warn.
13388 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
13389 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
13391 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
13394 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
13395 o Robustness and bugfixes:
13396 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
13397 - to get ownership/permissions right
13398 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
13399 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
13400 pull down a directory again
13401 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
13402 causing server crashes
13403 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
13404 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
13405 - exit if bind() fails
13406 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
13407 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
13408 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
13409 - fix minor bias in PRNG
13410 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
13413 - Wrote the design document (woo)
13415 o Circuit building and exit policies:
13416 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
13418 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
13419 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
13420 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
13421 exists, rather than failing
13422 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
13423 which AP connections are standing by
13424 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
13425 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
13426 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
13428 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
13429 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
13432 - APPort is now called SocksPort
13433 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
13435 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
13436 hardcoded (for dirservers)
13437 - Reloads config on HUP
13438 - Usage info on -h or --help
13439 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
13442 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
13443 o General stability:
13444 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
13445 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
13446 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
13447 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
13448 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
13449 to take down the network when I approve a new router
13450 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
13453 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
13454 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
13456 o Autoconf improvements:
13457 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
13458 - Make install now works
13459 - create var/lib/tor on make install
13460 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
13461 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
13463 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
13464 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
13465 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
13466 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup