1 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
2 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
3 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
4 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
7 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
8 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
9 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
10 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
12 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
13 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
14 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
15 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
17 o Minor features (continuous integration):
18 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
19 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
20 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
21 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
24 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
25 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
26 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
28 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
29 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
30 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
31 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
33 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
34 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
35 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
37 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
38 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
39 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
40 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
41 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
43 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
44 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
45 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
46 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
48 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
49 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
50 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
51 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
53 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
54 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
55 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
56 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
59 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
60 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
61 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
62 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
64 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
65 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
66 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
67 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
69 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
70 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
71 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
72 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
73 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
75 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
76 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
77 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
79 o Documentation (manpage):
80 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
81 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
82 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
85 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
86 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
87 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
88 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
89 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
90 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
92 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
93 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
94 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
95 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
96 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
97 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
98 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
99 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
101 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
102 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
103 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
105 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
106 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
107 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
108 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
110 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
111 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
112 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
113 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
115 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
116 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
117 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
118 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
119 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
120 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
123 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
124 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
125 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
127 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
128 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
129 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
130 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
131 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
132 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
133 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
136 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
137 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
140 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
141 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
142 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
143 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
144 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
145 current version of 0.4.1.x.
147 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
148 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
149 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
150 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
151 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
152 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
153 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
154 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
156 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
157 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
158 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
160 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
161 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
162 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
163 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
164 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
166 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
167 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
168 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
170 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
171 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
172 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
173 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
174 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
175 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
176 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
179 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
180 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
183 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
184 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
185 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
186 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
187 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
188 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
189 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
190 write better code in the future.
192 o New system requirements:
193 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
194 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
195 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
197 o Major features (build system):
198 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
199 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
200 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
201 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
202 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
204 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
205 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
206 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
207 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
208 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
210 o Major features (onion service, controller):
211 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
212 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
213 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
214 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
216 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
217 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
218 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
219 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
221 o Major features (proxy):
222 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
223 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
224 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
225 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
226 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
227 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
229 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
230 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
231 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
232 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
233 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
234 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
235 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
236 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
238 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
239 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
240 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
242 o Major bugfixes (networking):
243 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
244 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
245 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
247 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
248 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
249 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
250 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
251 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
252 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
254 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
255 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
256 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
258 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
259 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
260 message. Closes ticket 31371.
262 o Minor features (configuration validation):
263 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
264 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
265 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
268 o Minor features (configuration):
269 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
270 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
272 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
273 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
274 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
275 Implements ticket 32404.
277 o Minor features (controller):
278 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
279 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
280 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
282 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
283 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
284 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
285 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
287 o Minor features (defense in depth):
288 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
289 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
292 o Minor features (developer tooling):
293 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
294 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
297 o Minor features (developer tools):
298 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
299 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
300 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
301 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
302 target. Closes ticket 31919.
303 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
304 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
305 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
307 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
308 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
309 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
310 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
312 o Minor features (Doxygen):
313 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
314 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
315 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
317 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
318 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
319 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
320 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
321 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
322 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
323 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
324 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
326 o Minor features (git scripts):
327 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
328 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
329 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
330 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
331 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
332 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
333 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
334 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
335 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
336 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
338 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
339 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
340 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
341 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
343 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
344 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
345 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
346 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
347 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
348 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
350 o Minor features (portability, android):
351 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
352 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
353 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
355 o Minor features (relay modularity):
356 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
357 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
358 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
359 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
360 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
361 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
362 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
364 o Minor features (relay):
365 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
366 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
368 o Minor features (release tools):
369 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
372 o Minor features (testing):
373 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
374 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
375 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
376 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
377 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
378 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
381 o Minor features (tests, Android):
382 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
383 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
384 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
386 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
387 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
388 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
390 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
391 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
392 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
394 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
395 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
396 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
397 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
399 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
400 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
401 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
402 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
403 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
404 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
405 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
406 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
407 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
408 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
409 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
410 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
411 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
412 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
413 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
415 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
416 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
417 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
420 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
421 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
422 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
423 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
425 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
426 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
427 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
429 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
430 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
431 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
433 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
434 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
435 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
437 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
438 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
439 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
440 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
441 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
444 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
445 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
447 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
450 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
451 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
452 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
453 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
456 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
457 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
458 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
459 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
461 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
462 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
463 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
464 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
465 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
468 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
469 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
470 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
471 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
472 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
473 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
475 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
476 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
477 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
478 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
479 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
481 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
482 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
483 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
485 o Minor bugfixes (test):
486 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
487 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
488 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
491 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
492 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
493 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
494 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
495 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
496 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
497 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
498 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
501 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
502 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
503 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
504 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
505 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
506 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
508 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
509 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
510 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
512 o Deprecated features:
513 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
514 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
515 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
519 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
520 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
521 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
522 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
523 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
524 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
525 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
526 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
528 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
529 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
532 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
533 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
534 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
535 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
536 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
537 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
539 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
540 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
541 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
542 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
543 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
546 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
547 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
549 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
550 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
551 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
552 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
553 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
554 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
555 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
557 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
559 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
560 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
561 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
563 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
564 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
565 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
567 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
568 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
569 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
570 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
571 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
572 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
573 Solves part of ticket 32339.
574 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
575 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
576 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
577 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
578 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
579 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
580 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
581 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
582 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
583 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
585 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
586 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
588 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
589 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
590 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
592 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
593 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
594 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
595 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
596 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
597 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
599 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
600 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
602 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
604 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
606 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
607 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
608 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
609 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
611 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
612 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
613 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
614 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
615 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
618 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
619 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
621 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
624 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
625 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
626 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
627 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
628 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
629 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
630 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
631 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
633 o Documentation (manpage):
634 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
636 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
638 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
639 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
640 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
642 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
643 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
644 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
646 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
647 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
650 o Testing (continuous integration):
651 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
654 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
655 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
656 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
657 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
658 bugs present in previous series.
660 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
661 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
662 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
663 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
665 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
666 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
667 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
668 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
670 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
671 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
673 o Minor features (geoip):
674 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
675 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
678 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
679 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
680 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
684 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
685 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
686 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
687 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
689 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
690 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
691 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
692 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
694 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
695 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
696 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
697 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
699 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
700 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
701 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
702 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
703 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
704 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
705 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
706 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
708 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
709 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
710 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
711 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
712 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
714 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
715 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
716 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
717 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
718 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
721 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
722 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
723 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
724 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
726 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
727 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
728 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
730 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
731 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
732 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
734 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
735 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
736 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
737 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
738 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
739 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
741 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
742 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
743 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
744 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
746 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
747 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
748 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
749 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
750 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
751 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
752 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
753 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
754 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
755 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
758 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
759 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
760 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
761 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
762 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
763 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
764 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
765 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
766 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
768 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
769 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
770 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
771 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
773 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
774 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
775 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
776 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
777 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
780 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
781 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
782 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
784 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
785 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
786 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
788 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
789 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
790 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
792 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
793 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
794 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
795 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
797 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
798 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
799 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
800 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
801 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
803 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
804 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
805 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
807 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
808 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
809 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
812 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
813 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
814 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
816 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
817 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
818 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
819 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
821 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
823 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
824 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
826 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
827 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
828 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
829 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
830 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
831 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
832 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
833 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
834 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
835 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
837 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
838 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
839 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
840 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
844 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
845 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
846 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
847 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
848 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
850 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
851 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
852 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
853 support until 1 Feb 2022.
855 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
856 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
859 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
860 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
861 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
862 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
863 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
864 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
865 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
866 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
867 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
868 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
869 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
871 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
872 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
873 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
874 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
875 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
876 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
878 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
879 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
880 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
881 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
882 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
885 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
886 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
887 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
888 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
889 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
891 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
892 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
893 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
894 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
897 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
898 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
899 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
900 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
901 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
902 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
903 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
904 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
906 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
907 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
908 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
909 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
910 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
912 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
913 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
914 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
915 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
916 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
919 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
920 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
921 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
923 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
924 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
925 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
928 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
929 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
930 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
932 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
933 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
934 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
935 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
937 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
938 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
939 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
940 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
941 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
943 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
944 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
945 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
947 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
948 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
949 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
952 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
953 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
954 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
956 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
957 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
958 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
960 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
961 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
962 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
964 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
965 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
966 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
969 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
970 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
971 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
972 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
973 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
974 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
976 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
977 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
978 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
979 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
980 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
982 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
983 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
984 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
987 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
988 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
989 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
991 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
992 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
993 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
994 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
996 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
997 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
998 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
999 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1001 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1002 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
1003 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
1004 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
1006 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
1007 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1008 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1009 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1011 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1012 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
1013 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1014 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
1015 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1016 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
1017 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1019 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1020 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
1021 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
1022 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
1024 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1025 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
1026 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
1027 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1029 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1030 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
1031 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
1034 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1035 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
1036 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
1037 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1038 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
1039 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
1040 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1042 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1043 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
1044 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
1045 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
1048 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1049 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
1050 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
1051 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
1052 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1054 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1055 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
1056 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
1057 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
1058 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1060 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1061 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
1062 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
1065 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1066 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
1067 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
1068 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
1069 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1071 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1072 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
1073 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
1074 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1076 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1077 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
1078 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
1079 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
1080 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
1083 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1084 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
1085 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
1088 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1089 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
1090 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
1091 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1093 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1094 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
1095 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
1096 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
1098 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1099 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
1100 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
1101 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1103 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1104 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
1105 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
1106 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
1109 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1110 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
1111 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
1112 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
1113 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
1114 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
1117 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1118 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
1119 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
1121 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
1122 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
1123 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1125 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1126 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
1127 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
1128 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1130 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1131 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
1132 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1134 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1135 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
1136 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
1137 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
1138 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1140 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1141 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
1142 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
1145 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1146 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
1147 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
1148 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
1149 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
1150 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1151 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
1152 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
1153 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
1154 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1156 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1157 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
1158 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
1159 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
1161 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1162 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
1163 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
1164 Resolves issue 29702.
1166 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1167 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
1169 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1170 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
1171 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
1172 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
1175 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1176 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
1177 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
1178 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
1180 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
1181 Closes ticket 31859.
1182 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
1183 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
1185 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1186 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
1187 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
1188 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
1189 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
1190 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
1191 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
1192 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
1193 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
1194 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
1196 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1197 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
1198 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
1199 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
1200 Closes ticket 32500.
1202 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
1203 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
1204 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
1207 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
1208 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
1211 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1212 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
1213 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
1214 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
1215 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
1216 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
1217 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
1218 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
1219 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
1220 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
1221 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1223 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1224 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
1225 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
1226 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
1227 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
1228 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1230 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1231 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
1232 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
1233 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
1234 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
1235 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1237 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1238 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
1239 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
1240 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
1241 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
1244 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1245 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
1246 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
1247 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
1248 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
1250 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
1251 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
1252 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
1253 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
1256 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1257 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
1258 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
1259 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
1260 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1262 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1263 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
1264 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
1265 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
1266 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
1269 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1270 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
1271 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
1272 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
1273 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
1274 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
1275 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
1276 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1278 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1279 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
1280 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
1281 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
1282 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
1285 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1286 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
1287 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
1289 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1290 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
1291 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
1294 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
1295 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
1296 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
1297 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
1299 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1300 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
1301 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
1304 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1305 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
1306 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
1308 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1309 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1310 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1311 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1313 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1314 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
1315 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
1316 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
1317 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
1319 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1320 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1321 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
1323 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1324 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
1325 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
1326 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
1328 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1329 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
1330 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
1333 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1334 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
1335 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
1336 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
1337 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
1338 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
1339 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
1340 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
1341 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
1342 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
1343 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
1344 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
1345 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
1348 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1349 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
1350 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
1351 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
1352 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
1354 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
1355 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
1356 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1358 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1359 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
1360 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1362 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1363 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
1364 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1366 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1367 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
1368 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
1371 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1372 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
1373 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1375 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1376 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1377 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1378 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1379 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1380 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1382 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1383 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
1384 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
1385 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
1386 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1388 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1389 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
1390 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
1393 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1394 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
1395 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1397 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1398 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
1399 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1401 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1402 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
1403 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
1404 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1406 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1407 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
1408 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
1409 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1411 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1412 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
1413 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
1414 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
1416 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
1417 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1418 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1419 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1421 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1422 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
1423 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1424 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
1425 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1426 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
1427 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1429 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1430 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
1431 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
1432 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
1434 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
1435 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
1436 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
1437 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1439 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1440 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
1441 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
1444 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1445 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
1446 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
1447 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1448 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
1449 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
1450 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1452 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1453 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
1454 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
1455 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
1458 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1459 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
1460 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
1461 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
1462 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1464 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1465 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
1466 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1468 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1469 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
1470 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
1471 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
1472 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1473 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
1474 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
1475 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
1476 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1477 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
1478 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1480 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1481 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
1482 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
1483 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
1484 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
1486 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1487 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
1488 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
1491 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1492 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
1493 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
1494 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
1495 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1497 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1498 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
1499 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
1500 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1502 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1503 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
1504 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
1505 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
1506 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
1509 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1510 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
1511 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
1514 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
1515 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
1516 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
1517 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1519 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1520 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
1521 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
1522 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1524 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1525 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
1526 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1528 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1529 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
1530 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
1531 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1533 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1534 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
1535 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
1536 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
1539 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1540 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
1541 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
1542 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
1543 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
1544 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
1547 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
1548 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
1549 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
1550 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1552 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
1553 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
1554 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1556 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1557 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
1558 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1560 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1561 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
1562 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
1563 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
1564 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
1565 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
1566 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
1568 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1569 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
1570 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
1573 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1574 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
1575 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
1576 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
1577 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
1578 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
1579 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
1580 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1582 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
1583 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
1584 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
1585 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
1586 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
1587 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
1590 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1591 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
1592 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
1593 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
1594 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1596 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
1597 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
1598 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
1599 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
1600 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
1601 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
1602 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
1603 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1605 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1606 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
1607 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
1610 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1611 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
1612 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
1613 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
1614 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
1615 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1616 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
1617 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
1618 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
1619 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1621 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
1622 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
1623 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
1624 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
1625 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
1626 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1628 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1629 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
1630 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
1631 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
1633 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
1634 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
1635 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
1636 Resolves issue 29702.
1638 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
1639 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
1641 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
1642 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
1643 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
1644 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
1647 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
1648 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
1649 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
1650 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
1652 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
1653 Closes ticket 31859.
1654 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
1655 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
1657 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
1658 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
1659 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
1660 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
1661 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
1662 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
1663 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
1664 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
1665 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
1666 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
1668 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
1669 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
1670 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
1671 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
1672 Closes ticket 32500.
1674 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
1675 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
1676 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
1677 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
1679 o Minor features (build system):
1680 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
1681 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
1683 o Minor features (geoip):
1684 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1685 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
1687 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
1688 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
1689 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
1690 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
1691 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
1692 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1694 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
1695 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
1696 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1698 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1699 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
1700 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1702 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
1703 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
1704 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
1705 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
1706 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1708 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
1709 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
1710 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
1711 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
1712 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1714 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
1715 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
1716 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1717 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
1718 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1720 o Testing (continuous integration):
1721 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
1722 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
1723 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
1724 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
1725 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
1726 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
1727 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
1728 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
1729 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
1732 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
1733 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
1734 from earlier versions of Tor.
1736 o Major bugfixes (relay):
1737 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
1738 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
1739 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
1740 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
1741 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
1742 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
1743 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1745 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
1746 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
1747 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
1748 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
1749 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
1752 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
1753 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
1754 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
1755 Closes ticket 29669.
1757 o Minor features (testing):
1758 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
1759 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
1760 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
1761 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
1763 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
1764 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
1765 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
1766 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
1768 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
1769 Closes ticket 31859.
1770 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
1771 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
1773 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
1774 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
1775 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1776 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
1778 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
1779 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1780 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
1781 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
1782 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1784 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
1785 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
1786 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
1787 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1789 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
1790 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
1791 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1793 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
1794 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
1795 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
1796 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
1797 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
1800 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
1801 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
1802 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
1804 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
1805 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
1806 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1808 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1809 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
1810 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
1812 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
1813 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
1814 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
1815 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1817 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
1818 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
1819 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
1822 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
1823 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
1824 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1825 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
1826 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
1828 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
1829 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
1830 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
1831 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1834 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
1835 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1836 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
1837 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
1838 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
1839 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
1842 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
1843 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
1844 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
1845 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
1847 o Major features (directory authorities):
1848 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
1849 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
1850 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
1852 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
1853 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
1854 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
1855 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1857 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
1858 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
1859 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
1860 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
1861 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1863 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
1864 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
1865 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
1866 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
1867 Closes ticket 31779.
1869 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1870 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
1871 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
1872 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
1874 o Minor features (geoip):
1875 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1876 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
1878 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
1879 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
1880 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
1881 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
1882 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
1883 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
1884 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
1886 o Minor features (onion services v3):
1887 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
1888 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
1891 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
1892 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
1893 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
1895 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
1896 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
1897 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
1898 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1900 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
1901 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
1902 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
1903 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1905 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1906 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
1907 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1908 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
1909 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1910 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
1911 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
1912 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
1913 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1914 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
1915 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
1917 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
1918 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
1919 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
1920 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1922 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
1923 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
1924 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
1927 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
1928 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
1929 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
1931 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1932 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
1933 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
1934 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
1936 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
1937 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
1938 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1940 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1941 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
1942 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
1943 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
1944 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
1945 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
1946 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
1948 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
1952 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
1953 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
1955 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
1956 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
1957 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
1958 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
1959 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
1960 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
1963 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
1964 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
1965 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
1966 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
1969 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1970 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
1971 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
1972 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
1973 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1974 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
1975 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
1976 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
1977 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1979 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1980 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
1981 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
1984 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1985 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
1986 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1988 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
1989 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
1990 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
1991 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
1992 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
1994 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
1995 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
1996 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
1998 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
1999 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
2000 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
2001 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2003 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2004 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2005 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2006 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
2009 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2010 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
2011 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
2012 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
2013 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2015 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2016 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
2017 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2020 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2021 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2022 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2024 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2025 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2026 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2027 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2028 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2029 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2031 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2032 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2033 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
2034 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
2035 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
2036 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2037 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2038 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2039 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2040 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2042 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
2043 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2044 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2045 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2048 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
2049 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
2050 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
2051 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
2052 Tor's stability and ease of development.
2054 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
2055 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
2056 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
2057 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
2058 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
2059 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
2062 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
2063 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2064 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
2065 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
2066 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
2067 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
2070 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
2071 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
2072 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
2073 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
2074 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2075 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
2076 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
2077 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
2078 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2080 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
2081 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
2082 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
2083 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
2084 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
2085 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
2086 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
2087 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
2088 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
2089 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
2090 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
2091 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
2092 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
2093 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
2094 files. Closes ticket 31175.
2096 o Minor features (build system):
2097 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
2098 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
2099 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
2101 o Minor features (compilation):
2102 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
2103 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
2104 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
2106 o Minor features (configuration):
2107 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
2108 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
2109 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
2110 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
2112 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2113 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
2114 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
2115 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
2117 o Minor features (debugging):
2118 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
2119 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
2120 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
2121 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
2123 o Minor features (git hooks):
2124 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
2125 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
2126 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
2127 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
2128 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
2130 o Minor features (git scripts):
2131 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
2132 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
2133 push. Closes ticket 31314.
2134 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
2135 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
2136 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
2137 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
2138 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
2139 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
2140 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
2141 Closes ticket 31314.
2142 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
2143 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
2144 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
2145 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
2146 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
2147 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
2148 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
2149 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
2150 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
2152 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
2153 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
2154 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
2157 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
2158 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
2159 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
2161 o Minor features (onion service v3):
2162 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
2163 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
2165 o Minor features (onion service):
2166 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
2167 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
2168 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
2169 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
2171 o Minor features (stem tests):
2172 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
2173 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
2176 o Minor features (testing):
2177 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
2178 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
2179 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
2180 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
2181 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
2182 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
2183 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
2184 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
2185 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
2186 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
2187 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
2189 o Minor features (token bucket):
2190 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
2191 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
2193 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
2194 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
2195 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
2196 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2197 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
2198 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
2199 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
2200 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
2203 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2204 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
2205 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2207 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
2208 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
2209 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
2210 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
2211 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
2212 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
2214 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2215 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
2216 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
2217 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
2218 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
2220 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
2221 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
2222 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
2224 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2225 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
2226 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
2227 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
2229 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
2230 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
2231 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
2232 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
2233 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
2234 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
2235 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
2236 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
2237 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
2238 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2240 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
2241 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
2242 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
2245 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2246 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
2247 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2249 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
2250 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
2251 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
2252 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2253 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
2254 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
2255 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2256 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
2257 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
2258 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
2261 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
2262 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
2263 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
2264 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
2267 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
2268 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
2269 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
2270 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2272 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2273 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
2274 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
2275 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2276 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
2277 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2278 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
2279 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
2280 Closes ticket 31678.
2282 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
2283 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
2284 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
2285 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
2286 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2288 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2289 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
2290 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
2291 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
2292 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2293 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
2294 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
2295 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
2296 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
2299 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2300 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
2301 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
2303 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
2304 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
2305 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
2307 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
2308 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
2309 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
2312 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
2313 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
2314 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
2315 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
2316 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
2317 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
2319 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
2320 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
2321 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
2322 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
2325 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2326 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
2327 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
2328 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
2329 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2331 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2332 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
2333 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
2334 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
2335 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
2336 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2338 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
2339 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
2340 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
2341 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2343 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
2344 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
2345 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2346 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
2347 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2349 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
2350 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
2351 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
2352 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2354 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
2355 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
2356 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
2357 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
2358 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2360 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
2361 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
2362 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
2363 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
2364 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
2367 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2368 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
2369 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
2372 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
2373 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2374 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
2375 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
2376 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
2377 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2379 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
2380 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
2381 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
2382 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
2383 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
2384 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2385 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
2386 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
2387 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
2388 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2391 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
2392 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
2393 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
2394 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
2395 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
2396 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
2397 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
2400 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
2401 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
2402 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
2403 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
2404 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
2405 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
2407 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
2411 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
2412 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
2413 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
2414 Closes ticket 30967.
2416 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
2417 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
2418 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
2419 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
2420 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
2421 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
2422 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
2423 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
2424 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
2425 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
2426 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
2427 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
2428 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
2429 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
2430 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
2431 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
2433 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
2434 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
2435 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
2436 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
2437 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
2438 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
2439 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
2440 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
2441 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
2442 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
2444 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
2445 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
2446 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
2448 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
2449 Closes ticket 30806.
2450 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
2451 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
2454 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
2455 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
2456 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
2458 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
2459 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
2460 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2463 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
2464 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
2465 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
2466 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
2467 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
2468 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
2469 bugfixes on earlier versions.
2471 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
2472 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
2473 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
2474 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
2476 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2477 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2479 o Directory authority changes:
2480 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
2483 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
2484 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
2485 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
2486 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
2488 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
2489 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
2490 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
2491 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
2492 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
2493 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
2494 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2496 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2497 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
2498 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
2499 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2501 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
2502 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
2503 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
2504 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
2505 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2507 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
2508 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
2509 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
2510 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
2511 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
2512 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
2514 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
2515 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
2516 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
2519 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2520 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
2521 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2523 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
2524 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
2525 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
2528 o Testing (continuous integration):
2529 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
2530 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
2531 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
2535 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
2536 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
2537 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
2538 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
2540 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
2541 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
2542 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
2543 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
2544 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
2545 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2547 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2548 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
2549 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
2551 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
2552 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
2553 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
2554 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
2555 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
2557 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2558 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
2559 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
2561 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
2562 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
2563 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2565 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
2566 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
2567 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
2568 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
2570 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2571 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
2572 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
2575 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
2576 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
2577 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
2580 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2581 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
2582 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
2586 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
2587 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
2588 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
2590 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
2591 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
2592 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
2593 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
2594 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
2597 o Minor features (geoip):
2598 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2599 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
2601 o Minor features (logging):
2602 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
2603 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
2604 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
2605 Closes ticket 30686.
2607 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
2608 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
2609 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2611 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2612 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
2613 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2614 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
2615 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2616 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
2617 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2619 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2620 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
2621 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
2622 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
2624 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
2625 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
2626 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
2627 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
2628 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2631 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
2632 Closes ticket 30630.
2635 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
2636 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
2637 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
2638 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
2639 SENDME implementation.
2641 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
2642 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
2643 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
2644 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
2645 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
2646 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
2647 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
2648 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
2649 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
2650 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
2651 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2653 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
2654 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
2655 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
2656 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
2657 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
2658 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2660 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
2661 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
2662 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
2663 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
2664 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
2667 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
2668 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
2669 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
2670 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
2671 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
2672 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
2675 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2676 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
2677 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
2680 o Minor features (maintenance):
2681 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
2682 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
2683 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
2685 o Minor features (testing):
2686 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
2687 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
2688 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
2689 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
2691 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
2692 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
2693 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
2695 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
2696 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
2697 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
2698 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
2700 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2701 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
2702 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
2704 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
2705 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
2708 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
2709 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
2710 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
2713 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2714 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
2715 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
2718 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
2719 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
2720 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
2721 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
2723 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
2724 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
2725 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
2726 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
2729 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2730 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
2731 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
2732 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
2733 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
2734 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
2737 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
2738 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
2739 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
2740 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
2741 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
2742 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2744 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
2745 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
2746 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
2747 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
2750 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
2751 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
2752 Resolves issue 29702.
2755 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
2756 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
2757 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
2758 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
2759 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
2760 performance in several areas.
2762 o Major features (circuit padding):
2763 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
2764 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
2765 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
2766 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
2767 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
2768 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
2769 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
2770 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
2771 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
2773 o Major features (code organization):
2774 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
2775 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
2776 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
2777 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
2780 o Major features (controller protocol):
2781 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
2782 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
2783 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
2784 Closes ticket 30091.
2786 o Major features (flow control):
2787 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
2788 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
2789 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
2790 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
2791 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
2792 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
2793 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
2795 o Major features (performance):
2796 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
2797 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
2798 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
2800 o Major features (performance, RNG):
2801 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
2802 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
2803 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
2804 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
2805 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
2806 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
2807 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
2808 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
2810 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
2811 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
2812 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
2813 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
2814 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
2816 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
2817 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
2818 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
2819 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
2822 o Minor features (circuit padding):
2823 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
2825 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
2826 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
2827 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
2828 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
2829 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2830 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
2831 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
2833 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
2834 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
2835 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
2837 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2838 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
2839 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
2841 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
2843 o Minor features (controller):
2844 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
2845 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
2846 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2848 o Minor features (debugging):
2849 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
2850 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
2851 can use format strings to include information for trouble
2852 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
2854 o Minor features (defense in depth):
2855 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
2856 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
2857 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
2858 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
2859 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
2860 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
2861 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
2862 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
2863 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
2865 o Minor features (developer tools):
2866 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
2867 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
2868 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
2869 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
2870 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
2872 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
2873 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
2875 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
2876 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
2878 o Minor features (geoip):
2879 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
2880 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
2882 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
2883 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
2884 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
2886 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
2887 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
2888 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
2889 addresses. Implements 26992.
2891 o Minor features (modularity):
2892 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
2893 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
2895 o Minor features (performance):
2896 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
2897 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
2898 Closes ticket 28837.
2900 o Minor features (testing):
2901 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
2902 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
2903 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
2904 Implements ticket 29732.
2905 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
2906 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
2908 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
2909 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
2911 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
2912 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
2913 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
2914 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
2915 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
2916 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2918 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
2919 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
2920 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
2921 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2923 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2924 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
2925 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2926 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
2927 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
2928 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
2929 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2930 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
2931 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
2932 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2933 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
2934 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2935 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
2936 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
2937 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2938 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
2939 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
2940 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2942 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
2943 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
2944 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
2945 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2947 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
2948 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
2949 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
2950 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
2951 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
2953 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
2954 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
2955 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
2956 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2958 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2959 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
2960 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2961 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
2962 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
2963 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
2965 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
2966 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
2968 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2969 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
2970 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
2971 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
2972 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
2973 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
2974 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
2977 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
2978 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
2979 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
2982 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2983 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
2984 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
2985 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2986 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
2987 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
2988 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
2989 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
2991 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
2992 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
2993 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2994 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
2995 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
2996 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
2997 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2999 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
3000 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
3001 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
3002 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
3003 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
3004 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3006 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3007 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
3008 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
3009 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
3010 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3012 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3013 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
3014 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
3016 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
3017 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
3018 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
3021 o Minor bugfixes (python):
3022 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
3023 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
3024 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
3026 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3027 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
3028 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
3029 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
3030 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3032 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
3033 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
3034 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
3035 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
3036 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
3038 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3039 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
3040 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
3041 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3042 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
3043 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3044 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
3045 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3046 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
3047 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
3048 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
3049 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
3050 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3052 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
3053 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
3054 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
3055 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
3056 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3058 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3059 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
3060 port. Implements ticket 30007.
3061 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
3062 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
3063 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
3064 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
3065 string to directory connection with or without compression.
3066 Resolves issue 28816.
3067 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
3068 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
3069 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
3070 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
3071 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
3072 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
3073 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
3074 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
3075 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
3076 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
3077 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
3078 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
3079 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
3080 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
3081 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
3082 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
3083 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3084 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
3085 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3086 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
3087 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
3088 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
3089 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
3090 Closes ticket 29894.
3091 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
3092 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
3093 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
3094 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
3097 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
3098 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
3102 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
3103 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
3104 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
3105 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
3108 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
3109 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
3110 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
3111 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
3112 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
3113 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
3114 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
3115 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
3116 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
3117 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
3118 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
3121 o Testing (chutney):
3122 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
3123 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
3124 Closes ticket 27251.
3127 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
3128 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
3129 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
3130 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
3131 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
3132 long-term maintainability.
3134 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
3135 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
3136 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3137 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3139 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3140 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3142 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3143 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
3144 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
3145 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
3147 o Minor features (diagnostic):
3148 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
3149 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
3152 o Minor features (testing):
3153 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
3154 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
3157 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
3158 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
3159 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3161 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
3162 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
3163 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
3164 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3166 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3167 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
3168 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
3170 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
3171 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
3172 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3175 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
3176 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
3177 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
3178 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
3180 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
3181 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
3182 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
3183 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
3184 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
3185 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3187 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
3188 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
3189 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
3190 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
3191 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
3193 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
3194 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
3195 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
3198 o Minor features (circuit padding):
3199 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
3200 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
3201 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
3202 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
3205 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3206 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
3207 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
3210 o Minor features (dormant mode):
3211 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
3212 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
3213 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
3214 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
3215 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
3216 background. Closes ticket 29357.
3218 o Minor features (geoip):
3219 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3220 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
3222 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
3223 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
3224 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
3225 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
3227 o Minor bugfixes (security):
3228 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
3229 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
3230 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
3231 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
3232 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
3233 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
3234 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
3235 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
3237 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
3238 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
3239 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
3240 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
3242 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
3243 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
3244 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
3245 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
3246 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
3248 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
3249 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
3250 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3252 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
3253 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
3254 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
3257 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
3258 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
3259 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
3262 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
3263 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
3264 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3266 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3267 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
3268 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3270 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3271 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
3272 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
3273 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
3274 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
3275 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
3278 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3279 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
3280 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
3281 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
3282 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3284 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3285 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
3286 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
3287 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3288 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
3289 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
3292 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
3293 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
3294 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
3295 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
3296 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
3297 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
3298 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
3299 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3301 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3302 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
3303 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
3304 Resolves issue 28816.
3305 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
3306 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
3309 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
3310 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
3313 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
3314 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
3315 bugs from earlier versions.
3317 o Minor features (address selection):
3318 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
3319 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
3320 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
3321 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
3322 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
3323 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
3324 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3326 o Minor features (geoip):
3327 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3328 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
3330 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
3331 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
3332 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
3333 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3335 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3336 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
3337 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
3338 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
3339 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3340 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
3341 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
3342 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
3343 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3344 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
3345 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3347 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
3348 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
3349 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
3350 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3352 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
3353 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
3354 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3356 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3357 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
3358 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
3361 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
3362 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
3363 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3365 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
3366 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
3367 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
3368 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
3369 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
3370 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
3371 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
3373 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
3374 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
3375 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
3378 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3379 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
3380 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
3381 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
3382 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
3383 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
3384 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
3385 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3386 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
3387 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3389 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
3390 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
3391 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
3392 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
3393 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
3394 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3397 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
3398 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
3399 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
3402 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
3403 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
3404 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3406 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
3407 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
3408 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
3409 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
3410 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
3411 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
3412 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
3413 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
3415 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3416 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
3417 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
3418 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
3419 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3421 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3422 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
3423 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
3424 Patches from "Mangix".
3426 o Minor features (geoip):
3427 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3428 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
3430 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3431 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
3434 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3435 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
3436 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
3437 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
3438 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
3439 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
3441 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3442 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
3443 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
3444 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
3447 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3448 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
3449 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
3450 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3452 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3453 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
3454 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
3457 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3458 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
3459 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
3460 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3462 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3463 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
3464 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
3465 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
3467 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3468 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
3469 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
3470 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
3471 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
3472 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
3474 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3475 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
3476 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
3477 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
3478 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3480 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3481 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
3482 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
3483 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
3484 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3486 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3487 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
3488 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
3490 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
3491 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
3492 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
3494 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
3495 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
3496 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
3497 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
3499 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3500 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
3501 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
3503 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3504 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
3505 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3506 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
3507 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
3510 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
3511 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
3512 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
3513 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
3514 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3517 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
3518 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
3519 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
3520 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
3521 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3523 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
3524 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
3525 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
3526 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
3527 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
3528 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
3529 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
3530 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
3532 o Minor features (geoip):
3533 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3534 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
3536 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3537 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
3538 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
3539 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3541 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3542 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
3543 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
3544 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
3545 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
3548 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
3549 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
3550 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
3551 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3553 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
3554 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
3555 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
3556 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
3558 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
3559 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
3560 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
3561 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
3562 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
3563 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
3564 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
3565 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
3567 o Minor features (geoip):
3568 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3569 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
3571 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3572 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
3573 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
3574 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3576 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
3577 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
3578 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
3579 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
3580 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
3583 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
3584 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
3585 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
3586 backward compatibility.
3588 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
3589 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
3590 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
3592 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
3593 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
3594 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
3595 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
3596 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
3597 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
3598 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
3599 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
3601 o Major bugfixes (networking):
3602 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
3603 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
3604 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
3605 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3607 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
3608 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
3609 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
3610 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
3611 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
3612 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
3613 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3615 o Minor features (compilation):
3616 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
3617 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
3618 Patches from "Mangix".
3620 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3621 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
3622 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
3623 release. Closes ticket 27761.
3624 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
3625 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
3626 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
3629 o Minor features (directory authority):
3630 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
3631 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
3632 Closes ticket 26698.
3634 o Minor features (geoip):
3635 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3636 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
3638 o Minor features (testing):
3639 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
3642 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
3643 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
3644 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
3645 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
3647 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3648 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
3649 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3650 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
3651 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3653 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
3654 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
3655 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
3656 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
3658 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
3659 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
3660 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
3662 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3663 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
3664 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3665 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
3666 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
3667 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
3668 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3670 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
3671 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
3672 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
3673 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
3674 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3676 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3677 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
3678 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
3680 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
3681 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
3682 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
3684 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
3685 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
3686 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
3687 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
3689 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
3690 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
3691 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
3692 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
3693 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
3696 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3697 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
3698 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3699 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
3700 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
3701 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
3702 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3703 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
3704 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3705 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
3706 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
3710 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
3711 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
3712 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
3715 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
3718 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
3719 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
3720 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
3721 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
3722 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
3723 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
3726 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
3727 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
3728 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
3729 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
3730 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
3731 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
3733 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
3734 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
3736 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
3737 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
3740 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
3741 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
3742 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
3743 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
3744 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
3745 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
3746 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
3747 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
3748 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
3751 o Major features (circuit padding):
3752 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
3753 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
3754 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
3755 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
3756 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
3757 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
3758 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
3759 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
3762 o Major features (refactoring):
3763 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
3764 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
3765 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
3766 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
3769 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3770 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
3771 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
3772 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
3773 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
3776 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3777 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
3780 o Minor features (controller):
3781 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
3782 Implements ticket 28843.
3784 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3785 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
3786 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
3787 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
3789 o Minor features (directory authority):
3790 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
3791 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
3792 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
3793 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
3796 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
3797 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
3798 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
3799 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
3800 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
3801 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
3802 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
3804 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
3805 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
3806 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
3808 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
3809 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
3810 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
3811 Closes ticket 28518.
3813 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
3814 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
3815 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
3816 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
3818 o Minor features (IPv6):
3819 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
3820 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
3821 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
3822 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
3823 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
3824 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3825 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
3826 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
3827 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
3828 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3830 o Minor features (log messages):
3831 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
3832 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
3835 o Minor features (memory usage):
3836 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
3837 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
3838 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
3839 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
3840 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
3842 o Minor features (parsing):
3843 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
3844 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
3845 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
3847 o Minor features (performance):
3848 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
3849 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
3850 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
3851 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
3853 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
3854 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
3855 Closes ticket 28852.
3856 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
3857 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
3858 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
3859 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
3860 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
3861 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
3863 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
3864 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
3865 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
3866 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
3867 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
3869 o Minor features (process management):
3870 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
3871 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
3872 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
3873 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
3874 module. Closes ticket 28847.
3876 o Minor features (relay):
3877 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
3878 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
3879 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
3881 o Minor features (required protocols):
3882 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
3883 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
3884 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
3885 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
3886 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
3887 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
3888 297; closes ticket 27735.
3890 o Minor features (testing):
3891 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
3892 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
3894 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
3895 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
3896 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
3897 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
3898 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
3901 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3902 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
3903 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
3904 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
3906 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
3907 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
3908 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
3910 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
3911 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
3912 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
3913 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3915 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
3916 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
3917 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
3918 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
3919 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
3921 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
3922 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
3923 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
3924 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
3925 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
3926 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
3927 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3929 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
3930 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
3931 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
3932 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
3935 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3936 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
3937 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
3938 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
3939 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
3940 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
3942 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
3943 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
3944 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
3945 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3947 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
3948 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
3949 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
3950 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
3951 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
3952 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
3954 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
3955 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
3956 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
3957 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3959 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3960 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
3961 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
3962 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
3963 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
3965 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
3966 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
3967 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
3968 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
3969 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3971 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
3972 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
3973 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
3974 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
3975 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3977 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3978 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
3979 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
3980 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
3982 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
3983 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
3984 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
3985 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
3986 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
3987 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
3988 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
3989 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
3993 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
3994 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
3995 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
3996 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
3998 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
4001 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
4002 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
4003 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
4004 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
4005 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
4006 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
4007 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
4010 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
4012 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
4013 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
4015 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
4016 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
4017 code from client and service into one function. Closes
4020 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
4021 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
4023 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
4024 Resolves ticket 28006.
4025 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
4026 Resolves ticket 28012.
4027 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
4028 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
4029 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
4030 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
4034 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
4035 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
4036 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
4037 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
4038 to this version, or to a later series.
4040 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
4041 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
4042 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
4043 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
4044 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
4045 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
4047 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4048 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
4049 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
4050 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
4051 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
4054 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4055 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
4056 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
4057 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4059 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4060 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
4061 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
4062 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
4063 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
4064 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
4065 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
4066 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
4068 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4069 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
4070 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
4071 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
4073 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4074 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
4075 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
4076 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
4077 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
4079 o Minor features (geoip):
4080 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4081 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
4083 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4084 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
4085 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
4086 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
4087 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
4088 Closes ticket 28973.
4090 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4091 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
4092 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
4093 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
4095 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4096 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
4097 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
4100 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4101 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
4102 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
4104 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4105 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
4106 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
4107 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4109 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4110 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
4111 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
4112 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4114 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4115 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
4116 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
4117 were the same, the default setting (0) for
4118 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
4119 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
4122 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4123 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
4124 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
4127 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4128 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
4129 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
4130 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
4131 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4133 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4134 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
4135 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
4136 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
4137 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4139 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4140 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
4141 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
4142 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
4143 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
4144 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4146 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
4147 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
4148 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
4151 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4152 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
4153 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
4155 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4156 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
4157 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4159 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4160 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
4161 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
4164 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4165 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
4166 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
4167 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
4168 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
4169 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4170 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
4171 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4173 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4174 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
4175 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
4176 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4178 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4179 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
4180 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4181 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
4182 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
4183 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4184 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
4185 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
4186 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
4187 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
4189 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4190 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
4191 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
4192 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
4193 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
4194 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4196 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4197 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
4198 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
4199 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
4200 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4202 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4203 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
4204 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4207 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
4208 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
4209 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
4210 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
4213 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
4214 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
4215 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
4218 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4219 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
4220 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
4221 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
4222 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
4225 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4226 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
4227 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
4228 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
4229 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
4230 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
4231 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
4233 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4234 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
4235 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
4238 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4239 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
4240 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
4241 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
4242 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
4245 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4246 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
4247 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
4248 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
4249 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
4251 o Minor features (geoip):
4252 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4253 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
4255 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4256 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
4257 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
4258 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
4259 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
4260 Closes ticket 28973.
4262 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4263 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
4264 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
4265 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4267 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4268 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
4269 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
4270 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
4271 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
4274 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4275 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
4276 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
4277 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
4279 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
4280 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
4281 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4283 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4284 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
4285 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
4286 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
4288 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4289 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
4290 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
4291 were the same, the default setting (0) for
4292 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
4293 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
4296 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
4297 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
4298 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
4300 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4301 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
4302 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
4303 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
4304 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4306 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4307 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
4308 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
4309 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
4310 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
4311 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4313 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
4314 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
4315 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
4316 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
4318 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
4319 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
4320 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4323 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
4324 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
4325 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
4326 affecting directory caches.
4328 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
4329 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
4330 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
4331 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
4332 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
4333 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
4334 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
4335 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
4337 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
4338 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
4339 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
4340 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
4341 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
4342 so it will recognize them.
4344 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
4345 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
4346 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
4347 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
4348 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
4349 with the latest stable release.)
4351 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
4352 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4354 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
4355 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
4356 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
4357 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
4358 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
4359 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
4360 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
4362 o Minor features (compilation):
4363 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
4364 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
4366 o Minor features (geoip):
4367 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4368 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
4370 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
4371 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
4372 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
4373 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
4374 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
4375 Closes ticket 28973.
4377 o Minor features (performance):
4378 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
4379 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
4380 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
4381 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
4382 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
4383 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
4384 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
4385 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
4386 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
4387 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
4389 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4390 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
4391 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4393 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
4394 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
4395 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
4396 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
4397 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
4399 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4400 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
4401 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
4402 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4403 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
4404 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
4405 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4407 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
4408 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
4409 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
4411 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4412 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
4413 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
4417 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
4418 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
4419 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
4420 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
4422 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
4423 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
4424 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
4427 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
4428 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
4429 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
4430 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
4431 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
4433 o Minor features (geoip):
4434 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4435 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
4437 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4438 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
4439 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4441 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
4442 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
4443 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
4444 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
4446 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4447 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
4448 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
4449 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
4450 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
4451 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4453 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
4454 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
4455 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
4458 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4459 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
4460 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
4461 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4462 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
4463 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
4464 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4466 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
4467 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
4468 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
4469 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
4470 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
4471 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
4472 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
4473 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
4475 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
4476 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
4477 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
4478 reported by Keifer Bly.
4481 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
4482 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
4484 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
4485 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
4486 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
4487 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
4488 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
4489 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
4490 Closes ticket 19566.
4492 o Documentation (onion services):
4493 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
4494 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
4495 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
4496 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
4497 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
4498 process. Closes ticket 28275.
4501 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
4502 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
4503 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
4506 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
4507 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
4508 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
4509 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
4510 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
4513 o Minor features (geoip):
4514 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4515 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
4517 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4518 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
4519 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
4520 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4522 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
4523 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
4524 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
4525 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
4526 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
4529 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
4530 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
4531 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
4532 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
4534 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
4535 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
4536 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4538 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4539 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
4540 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4542 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4543 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
4544 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
4547 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4548 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
4549 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
4552 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4553 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
4554 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
4556 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4557 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
4558 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
4559 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
4560 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
4561 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
4562 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
4563 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
4564 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
4565 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4568 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
4569 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
4570 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
4571 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
4572 acceptable long-term-support release.
4574 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
4575 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
4576 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
4577 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
4578 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
4579 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4581 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
4582 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
4583 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
4584 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
4585 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4587 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4588 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
4590 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
4591 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
4593 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
4594 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
4595 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
4597 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
4598 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
4599 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
4602 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4603 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
4604 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4606 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
4607 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
4608 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
4611 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4612 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
4613 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
4616 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
4617 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
4618 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
4619 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4621 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4622 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
4623 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
4624 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
4627 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
4628 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
4629 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
4630 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4632 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4633 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
4634 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
4635 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
4636 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
4637 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
4638 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4640 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4641 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
4642 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
4645 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
4646 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
4649 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
4650 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
4651 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
4652 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
4653 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4655 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
4656 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
4657 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4658 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
4659 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
4660 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4662 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
4663 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
4664 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
4665 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
4666 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
4668 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4669 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
4670 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4672 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
4673 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
4674 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
4675 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
4676 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4678 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
4679 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
4680 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
4683 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
4684 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
4685 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
4686 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
4687 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
4689 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4690 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
4691 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4693 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4694 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
4695 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
4696 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
4697 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4699 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4700 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
4701 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
4702 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
4703 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
4706 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4707 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
4708 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
4709 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4711 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4712 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
4713 Implements ticket 27252.
4714 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
4715 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
4716 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
4717 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
4718 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
4719 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
4720 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
4722 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4723 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
4724 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
4725 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
4727 o Minor features (geoip):
4728 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4729 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
4731 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4732 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
4733 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
4734 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
4735 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
4737 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
4738 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
4739 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4740 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
4741 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
4744 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4745 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
4746 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
4749 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4750 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
4751 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
4752 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
4753 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4755 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4756 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
4757 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
4759 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4760 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
4761 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4763 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4764 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
4765 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
4766 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4768 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4769 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
4770 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4772 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4773 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
4774 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
4777 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4778 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
4779 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4781 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4782 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
4783 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
4786 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4787 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
4788 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
4789 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
4790 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4792 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4793 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
4794 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
4795 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
4796 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
4797 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4799 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4800 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
4801 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
4804 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4805 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
4806 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
4807 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
4808 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
4809 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4810 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
4811 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4813 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
4814 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
4815 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
4816 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4818 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4819 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
4820 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
4821 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
4822 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
4824 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4825 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
4826 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4827 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
4828 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
4829 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4831 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
4832 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
4833 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
4834 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
4835 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
4836 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
4838 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
4839 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
4840 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
4841 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
4844 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
4845 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
4846 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
4847 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
4848 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4851 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
4852 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
4853 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
4854 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
4855 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
4856 getting closer and closer to stability.
4858 o Major features (onion services):
4859 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
4860 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
4861 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
4862 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
4863 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
4865 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
4866 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
4867 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4869 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
4870 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
4871 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
4872 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4874 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
4875 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
4876 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
4877 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
4878 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4880 o Major bugfixes (relay):
4881 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
4882 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
4883 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
4884 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
4887 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4888 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
4889 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
4890 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
4891 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
4892 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
4895 o Minor features (geoip):
4896 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4897 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
4899 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
4900 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
4901 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
4904 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4905 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
4906 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
4907 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
4908 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
4909 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
4912 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
4913 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
4916 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
4917 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
4918 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
4919 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
4920 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4922 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
4923 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
4924 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
4925 were the same, the default setting (0) for
4926 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
4927 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
4930 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4931 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
4932 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4934 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
4935 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
4936 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
4938 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
4939 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
4940 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4942 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4943 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
4944 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
4946 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
4947 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
4948 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
4949 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4950 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
4951 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
4952 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
4953 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
4954 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4956 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
4957 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
4958 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
4961 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4962 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
4963 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
4964 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
4966 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
4967 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4969 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4970 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
4971 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
4972 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
4973 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
4974 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
4975 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
4976 Closes ticket 27814.
4977 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
4978 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
4979 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
4980 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
4981 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
4982 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
4985 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
4986 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
4987 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
4988 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
4991 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
4992 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
4993 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
4994 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
4996 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
4997 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
4998 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
4999 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
5000 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
5001 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
5003 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
5004 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
5005 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
5006 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
5007 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
5010 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
5011 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
5012 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
5013 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
5014 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5016 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
5017 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
5018 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5019 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
5020 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
5023 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5024 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
5025 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
5026 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
5027 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5029 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
5030 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
5031 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
5032 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
5034 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
5035 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
5036 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
5039 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5040 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
5041 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
5042 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5044 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5045 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
5046 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
5047 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
5049 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5050 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
5051 Closes ticket 27799.
5054 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
5055 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
5056 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
5057 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
5058 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
5060 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
5061 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
5062 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
5063 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
5064 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
5065 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
5067 o Major features (relay, UI change):
5068 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
5069 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
5070 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
5071 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
5072 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5073 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
5074 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
5076 o Major features (bootstrap):
5077 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
5078 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
5079 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
5080 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
5082 o Major features (new code layout):
5083 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
5084 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
5085 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
5086 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
5087 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
5088 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
5089 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
5091 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
5092 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
5093 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
5095 o Major features (onion services v3):
5096 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
5097 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
5098 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
5099 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
5100 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
5101 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
5102 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
5103 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
5104 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
5105 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
5106 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
5107 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
5108 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
5110 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
5111 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
5112 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
5113 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
5114 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
5115 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
5116 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
5118 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
5119 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
5120 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
5121 (if present), and restart Tor.
5123 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
5124 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
5125 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
5126 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
5129 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
5130 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
5131 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
5132 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5134 o Minor features (admin tools):
5135 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
5136 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
5139 o Minor features (build):
5140 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
5141 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
5142 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
5143 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
5145 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
5146 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
5147 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
5148 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
5149 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
5151 o Minor features (code layout):
5152 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
5153 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
5154 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
5155 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
5158 o Minor features (compilation):
5159 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
5160 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
5161 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
5162 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
5165 o Minor features (config):
5166 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
5169 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5170 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
5171 Implements ticket 27252.
5172 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5173 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5174 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
5175 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
5176 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
5177 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
5178 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
5179 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
5180 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
5182 o Minor features (controller):
5183 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
5184 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
5185 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
5186 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
5187 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
5188 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
5189 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
5190 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
5192 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
5193 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
5194 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
5195 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
5197 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
5198 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
5199 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
5200 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5202 o Minor features (development):
5203 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
5204 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
5206 o Minor features (directory authority):
5207 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
5208 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
5209 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
5210 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
5212 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
5213 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
5216 o Minor features (embedding API):
5217 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
5218 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
5219 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
5220 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
5221 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
5222 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
5225 o Minor features (geoip):
5226 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5227 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
5229 o Minor features (memory management):
5230 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
5231 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
5234 o Minor features (memory usage):
5235 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
5236 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
5237 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
5239 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
5240 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
5241 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
5243 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
5244 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
5245 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
5246 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
5248 o Minor features (testing):
5249 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
5250 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
5252 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
5253 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
5254 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
5256 o Minor features (UI):
5257 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
5258 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
5259 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
5260 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
5261 Closes ticket 26703.
5263 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
5264 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
5265 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
5266 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
5268 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
5269 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
5270 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
5271 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5272 - Use time_t for all values in
5273 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
5274 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
5275 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5277 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
5278 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
5279 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
5280 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
5281 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
5284 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
5285 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
5286 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
5287 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
5288 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
5289 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5291 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5292 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
5293 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
5294 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5296 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
5297 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
5298 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
5299 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
5300 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
5302 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
5303 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
5304 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5306 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5307 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
5308 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
5309 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
5310 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
5313 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
5314 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
5315 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5317 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
5318 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
5319 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
5322 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
5323 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
5324 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
5325 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
5326 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5328 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5329 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
5330 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
5331 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
5332 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
5333 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
5334 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
5336 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
5337 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
5338 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
5339 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
5340 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5342 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
5343 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
5344 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5346 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5347 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
5348 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
5349 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
5352 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5353 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
5354 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
5357 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
5358 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
5359 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
5360 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
5361 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
5363 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
5364 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
5365 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
5366 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
5368 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
5369 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
5370 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
5371 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
5373 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
5374 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
5375 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
5376 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
5377 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
5378 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5379 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5380 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
5381 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
5382 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5384 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
5385 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
5386 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
5387 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
5388 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
5389 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5390 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
5391 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5393 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5394 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
5395 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5396 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
5397 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
5398 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
5399 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
5400 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5401 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
5402 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
5403 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5404 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
5405 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5407 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5408 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
5409 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
5410 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
5411 directory within the top-level src directory.
5412 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
5413 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
5414 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
5415 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
5416 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
5417 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
5418 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
5419 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
5420 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
5421 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
5422 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
5423 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
5424 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
5425 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
5426 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
5427 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
5428 Closes ticket 21349.
5429 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
5430 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
5431 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
5432 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
5433 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
5434 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
5435 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
5437 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
5438 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
5439 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
5442 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
5443 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
5444 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
5445 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
5446 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
5449 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
5450 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
5451 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
5452 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
5453 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
5454 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
5455 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
5456 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
5457 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
5458 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
5459 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
5460 Closes ticket 26367.
5463 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
5464 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
5466 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5467 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
5468 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
5469 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
5471 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5472 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5474 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5475 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5476 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
5477 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
5479 o Minor features (geoip):
5480 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5481 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
5483 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5484 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
5485 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
5486 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5488 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5489 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
5490 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
5491 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
5492 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5493 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
5494 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
5495 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
5498 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5499 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
5500 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
5501 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5503 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5504 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
5505 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
5506 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
5508 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5509 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
5510 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
5511 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5513 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5514 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
5515 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5516 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
5517 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5519 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5520 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
5521 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
5524 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5525 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
5526 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
5527 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
5528 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
5530 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5531 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
5532 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
5535 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5536 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
5537 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
5538 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5540 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5541 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
5542 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5544 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5545 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
5546 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
5549 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5550 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
5551 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
5552 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
5553 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5555 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5556 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
5557 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5560 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
5561 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
5563 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5564 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
5565 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
5566 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
5568 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5569 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5571 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5572 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5573 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
5574 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
5576 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5577 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5580 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5581 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
5582 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
5583 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
5585 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5586 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
5587 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
5588 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
5590 o Minor features (geoip):
5591 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5592 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
5594 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5595 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
5596 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
5597 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5598 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
5599 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
5600 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
5602 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5603 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
5604 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
5605 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
5606 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5607 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
5608 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
5609 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
5612 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5613 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
5614 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
5615 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5617 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5618 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
5619 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
5620 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
5622 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5623 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5624 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
5625 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
5626 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5628 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5629 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
5630 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5631 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
5632 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5634 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5635 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
5636 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
5639 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5640 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
5641 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
5642 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
5643 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
5645 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5646 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
5647 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
5650 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5651 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
5652 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
5655 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5656 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
5657 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
5660 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5661 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
5663 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
5664 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
5665 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
5666 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5668 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5669 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
5670 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
5671 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5673 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5674 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
5675 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5677 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5678 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
5679 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
5680 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
5681 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5682 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
5683 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
5686 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
5687 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
5688 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
5689 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
5690 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5692 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5693 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
5694 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
5695 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
5696 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5698 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5699 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
5700 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5703 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
5704 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
5706 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5707 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
5708 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
5709 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
5711 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5712 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
5713 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
5714 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
5716 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5717 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
5718 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5720 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5721 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5722 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
5723 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
5725 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5726 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5729 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5730 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
5731 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
5732 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
5734 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5735 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
5736 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
5737 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
5739 o Minor features (geoip):
5740 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5741 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
5743 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5744 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
5745 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
5746 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5747 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
5748 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
5749 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
5751 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5752 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
5753 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
5754 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
5755 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5756 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
5757 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
5758 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
5761 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5762 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
5763 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
5764 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5766 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5767 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
5768 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
5769 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
5771 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5772 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5773 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
5774 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
5775 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5777 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5778 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
5779 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5780 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
5781 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5783 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5784 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
5785 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
5788 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5789 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
5790 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
5791 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5793 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5794 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
5795 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
5796 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
5797 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
5799 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5800 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
5801 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
5804 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5805 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
5806 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
5809 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5810 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
5811 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
5814 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5815 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
5816 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
5817 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5819 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5820 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
5821 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
5824 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5825 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
5827 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
5828 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
5829 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
5830 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
5831 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
5832 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
5833 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
5835 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
5836 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5837 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
5838 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
5839 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
5841 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5842 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
5843 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
5844 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5846 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5847 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
5848 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5850 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
5851 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
5852 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
5853 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
5854 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5855 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
5856 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
5859 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5860 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
5861 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
5862 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
5863 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5865 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
5866 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
5867 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
5868 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
5869 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
5871 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
5872 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
5873 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5876 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
5877 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
5878 compilation and portability fixes.
5880 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
5881 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
5882 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
5883 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
5884 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
5885 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
5886 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
5887 our anti-denial-of-service code.
5889 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
5890 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5892 o Minor features (compatibility):
5893 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
5894 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
5895 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
5897 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5898 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
5899 Implements ticket 27449.
5900 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
5901 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
5904 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5905 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
5906 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
5907 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
5908 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5909 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
5910 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
5911 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
5914 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
5915 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
5916 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
5917 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
5918 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
5919 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5920 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
5921 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5922 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
5923 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
5925 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5926 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
5927 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
5930 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
5931 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
5932 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
5933 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
5934 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5935 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
5936 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
5939 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
5940 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
5941 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
5942 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
5943 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
5945 o Minor features (bug workaround):
5946 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
5947 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
5948 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
5950 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5951 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
5952 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5954 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
5955 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
5956 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
5957 Implements ticket 27275.
5958 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
5959 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
5961 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
5962 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
5965 o Minor features (directory authorities):
5966 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
5967 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
5968 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
5970 o Minor features (geoip):
5971 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5972 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
5974 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
5975 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
5976 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
5977 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5979 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
5980 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
5981 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
5982 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
5983 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5984 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
5985 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
5986 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5988 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
5989 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
5990 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
5991 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5993 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5994 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
5995 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
5996 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
5997 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
5999 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6000 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
6001 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
6004 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6005 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
6006 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
6009 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
6010 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
6012 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
6013 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6014 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
6015 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
6016 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6017 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
6018 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
6020 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
6021 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6022 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
6023 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
6024 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
6026 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
6027 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
6028 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
6029 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
6030 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6032 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
6033 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
6034 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
6035 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
6036 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6038 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
6039 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
6040 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6043 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
6044 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
6045 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
6046 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
6047 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
6049 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
6050 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
6051 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
6052 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
6053 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
6054 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6056 o Minor features (compilation):
6057 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6058 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6060 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
6061 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
6062 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6063 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
6064 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
6065 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
6067 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6068 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
6069 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
6070 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
6072 o Minor features (controller):
6073 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
6074 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
6075 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
6077 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
6078 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
6079 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
6082 o Minor features (geoip):
6083 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6084 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6086 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
6087 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
6089 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6090 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
6091 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
6092 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6093 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6094 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6095 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6097 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6098 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
6099 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6100 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
6101 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
6102 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
6104 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
6105 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
6106 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
6109 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
6110 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6111 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6113 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6114 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
6115 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
6118 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6119 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
6120 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6121 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
6122 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
6123 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6125 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
6126 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
6127 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
6128 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6130 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6131 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
6132 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6134 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
6135 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
6136 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
6137 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
6138 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
6139 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
6141 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
6142 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
6143 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
6144 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
6145 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6148 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
6149 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6150 bridge relays should upgrade.
6152 o Directory authority changes:
6153 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6154 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6155 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6158 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
6159 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6160 bridge relays should upgrade.
6162 o Directory authority changes:
6163 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6164 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6165 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6168 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
6169 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6170 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
6173 o Directory authority changes:
6174 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6175 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6176 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6178 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
6179 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
6180 Closes ticket 26343.
6182 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6183 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
6184 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
6185 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
6186 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6188 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6189 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
6190 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
6192 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6193 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
6194 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
6195 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
6197 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6198 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
6199 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
6201 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6202 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
6203 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
6204 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
6205 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
6206 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
6208 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6209 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
6210 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
6211 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
6213 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6214 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6215 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6218 o Minor features (geoip):
6219 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6220 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6222 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6223 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
6224 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
6225 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
6226 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6228 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6229 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
6230 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6232 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6233 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
6234 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
6235 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
6236 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6237 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
6238 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
6239 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
6242 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6243 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
6244 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
6245 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
6246 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
6247 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6249 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6250 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
6251 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
6252 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
6253 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
6255 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6256 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6257 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6258 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6259 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6261 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6262 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
6263 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
6266 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6267 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
6268 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6270 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6271 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
6272 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
6273 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
6275 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6276 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
6277 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6278 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
6279 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
6280 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
6281 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6283 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6284 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
6285 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
6286 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
6289 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6290 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
6291 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6293 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6294 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
6295 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6297 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6298 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
6299 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
6300 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
6303 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6304 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
6305 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
6306 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6308 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6309 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6310 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6312 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6313 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
6314 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
6317 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
6318 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
6319 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
6322 o Directory authority changes:
6323 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
6324 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
6325 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
6327 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
6328 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
6329 Closes ticket 26343.
6331 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6332 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
6333 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
6334 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
6335 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6337 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6338 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
6339 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
6340 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
6342 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6343 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
6344 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
6345 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
6346 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
6347 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
6349 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6350 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6351 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6354 o Minor features (geoip):
6355 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6356 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6358 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6359 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
6360 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
6361 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
6362 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6364 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6365 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
6366 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6368 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6369 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
6370 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
6371 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
6374 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6375 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
6376 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
6377 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
6378 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
6379 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6381 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6382 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6383 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6384 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6385 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6387 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6388 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
6389 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
6392 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6393 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
6394 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6396 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
6397 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
6398 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
6399 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
6401 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6402 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6403 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6405 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
6406 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
6407 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
6410 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
6411 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
6412 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
6413 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
6414 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
6416 o Minor features (compilation):
6417 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6418 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6421 o Minor features (geoip):
6422 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6423 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6425 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
6426 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
6428 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6429 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6430 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6431 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6432 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6434 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
6435 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
6436 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6437 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
6438 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
6439 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
6441 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
6442 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
6443 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
6446 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
6447 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6448 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6450 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
6451 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
6452 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
6453 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
6454 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6455 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
6456 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
6457 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
6461 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
6462 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
6463 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
6465 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6466 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
6467 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
6468 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6470 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6471 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
6472 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
6475 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6476 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
6477 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
6480 o Minor features (geoip):
6481 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6482 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
6484 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6485 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
6486 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
6487 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
6489 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6490 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
6491 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
6492 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
6493 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
6496 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6497 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
6498 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
6499 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
6500 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6502 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6503 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
6504 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
6505 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
6507 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6508 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
6509 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
6511 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
6512 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
6513 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
6514 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
6517 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6518 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
6519 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
6520 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6522 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
6523 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
6524 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
6525 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
6526 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6527 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
6528 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
6529 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
6533 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
6534 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
6535 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
6537 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
6538 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
6539 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
6540 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6542 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
6543 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
6544 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
6547 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
6548 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
6549 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
6550 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
6552 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
6553 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
6554 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
6555 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
6557 o Minor features (unit tests):
6558 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
6559 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
6560 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
6563 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6564 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
6565 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
6566 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6567 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
6568 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
6569 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6570 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
6571 Closes ticket 26245.
6573 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6574 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
6575 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
6576 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
6577 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
6578 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6580 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6581 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
6582 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
6583 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
6586 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6587 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
6588 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6589 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
6590 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
6591 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
6592 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
6593 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
6594 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6595 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
6596 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
6597 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
6598 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
6599 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6602 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
6603 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
6604 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
6606 o Directory authority changes:
6607 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
6608 Closes ticket 26343.
6610 o Minor features (geoip):
6611 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6612 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
6614 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6615 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
6616 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
6617 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
6618 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
6619 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6621 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6622 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
6623 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6625 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6626 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
6627 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
6628 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
6629 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6631 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
6632 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
6633 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6635 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6636 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
6637 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
6638 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
6639 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
6640 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6643 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
6644 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
6645 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
6647 o Directory authority changes:
6648 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
6649 Closes ticket 26343.
6651 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
6652 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
6653 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
6654 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
6655 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
6657 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6658 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
6659 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
6660 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
6662 o Minor features (geoip):
6663 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6664 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
6666 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
6667 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
6668 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
6669 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
6670 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
6671 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6673 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6674 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
6675 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6676 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
6677 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6678 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
6679 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
6680 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6682 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
6683 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
6684 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
6685 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
6688 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6689 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
6690 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
6691 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
6692 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6694 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
6695 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
6696 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
6698 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6699 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
6700 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6702 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
6703 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
6704 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
6705 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
6709 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
6710 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
6711 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6713 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
6714 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
6715 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
6716 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
6717 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
6718 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
6720 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
6721 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6723 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6724 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
6725 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
6726 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
6727 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6729 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
6730 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
6731 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
6732 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
6733 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
6735 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6736 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
6737 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
6738 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6740 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6741 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
6742 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
6743 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
6745 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6746 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
6747 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
6749 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6750 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
6751 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
6754 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6755 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
6756 Closes ticket 26006.
6758 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6759 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
6760 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
6761 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
6762 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
6763 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
6765 o Minor features (geoip):
6766 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
6767 database. Closes ticket 26104.
6769 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6770 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
6771 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
6774 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6775 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
6776 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
6777 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
6778 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6780 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6781 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
6782 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
6783 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
6784 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
6787 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6788 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
6789 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
6791 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6792 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
6793 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6794 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
6795 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
6796 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
6797 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6799 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6800 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
6801 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6803 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
6804 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
6805 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
6808 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
6809 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
6810 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
6811 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
6812 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
6813 other small features and bugfixes.
6815 o New system requirements:
6816 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
6817 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
6818 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
6819 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
6821 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
6822 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
6823 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
6824 To disable the module, the configure option
6825 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
6826 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
6828 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
6829 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
6830 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
6831 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
6832 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
6833 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
6834 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
6835 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
6836 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
6837 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
6838 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
6840 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
6841 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
6842 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
6843 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
6844 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
6845 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
6846 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
6847 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
6848 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
6849 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
6850 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
6851 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
6852 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
6853 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
6854 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
6855 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
6856 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
6857 Tor's uptime (26009).
6859 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
6860 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
6861 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
6862 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
6863 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6865 o Major bugfixes (crash):
6866 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
6867 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
6868 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6870 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
6871 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
6872 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
6873 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
6875 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
6876 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
6877 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
6879 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
6880 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
6881 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
6882 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
6883 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
6884 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
6885 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
6886 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
6887 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
6888 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
6889 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
6890 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
6891 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
6892 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6894 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
6895 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
6896 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
6899 o Minor features (accounting):
6900 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
6901 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
6902 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
6903 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
6905 o Minor features (code quality):
6906 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
6907 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
6908 Closes ticket 25024.
6910 o Minor features (compatibility):
6911 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
6912 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
6913 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
6914 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
6915 Closes ticket 26006.
6917 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
6918 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
6919 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
6920 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
6921 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
6922 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
6924 o Minor features (configuration):
6925 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
6926 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
6927 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
6928 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
6929 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
6931 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6932 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
6933 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
6934 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
6935 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
6936 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
6938 o Minor features (control port):
6939 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
6940 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
6941 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
6942 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6943 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
6944 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
6945 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
6946 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
6947 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
6948 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
6950 o Minor features (directory authority):
6951 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
6952 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
6953 Closes ticket 23909.
6955 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
6956 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
6957 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
6958 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
6960 o Minor features (entry guards):
6961 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
6962 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
6964 o Minor features (geoip):
6965 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
6966 database. Closes ticket 26104.
6968 o Minor features (performance):
6969 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
6970 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
6971 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
6972 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
6974 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
6975 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
6977 o Minor features (testing):
6978 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
6979 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
6981 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
6982 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
6983 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
6984 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
6985 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
6986 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
6988 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
6989 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
6990 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
6991 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
6992 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
6994 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
6995 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
6996 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
6997 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
6998 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
6999 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
7001 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7002 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
7003 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
7004 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
7006 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
7007 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
7008 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
7009 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
7010 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
7013 o Minor bugfixes (client):
7014 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
7015 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
7018 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
7019 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
7020 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7021 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
7022 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
7024 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
7025 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
7026 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
7027 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
7028 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7030 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7031 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
7032 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
7033 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
7034 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7036 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
7037 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
7038 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
7039 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
7040 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7042 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
7043 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
7044 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7045 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
7046 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
7047 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
7050 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7051 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
7052 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
7053 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
7054 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
7057 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
7058 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
7059 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
7060 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
7061 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
7062 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
7063 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
7065 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7066 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
7067 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7069 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
7070 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
7071 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7072 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
7073 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
7074 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
7075 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7077 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
7078 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
7079 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
7080 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
7081 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
7082 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7084 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7085 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
7086 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
7089 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
7090 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
7091 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
7092 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7094 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
7095 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
7096 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
7097 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
7098 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
7099 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
7100 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
7102 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
7103 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
7104 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7106 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
7107 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
7108 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
7109 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7111 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7112 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
7113 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
7114 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
7115 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
7116 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7117 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
7118 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
7120 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
7121 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
7122 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7123 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
7124 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
7125 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
7126 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
7128 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
7129 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
7130 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
7131 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
7132 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
7134 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
7135 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
7136 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
7139 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
7140 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
7141 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
7142 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
7143 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
7144 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7146 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7147 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
7148 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
7149 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7150 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
7151 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
7152 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
7153 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
7155 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
7156 confusing we renamed some functions and
7157 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
7158 router_should_check_reachability() and
7159 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
7160 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
7161 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
7162 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
7163 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
7165 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
7166 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
7168 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
7169 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
7170 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7171 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
7172 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
7173 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
7174 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
7175 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
7176 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
7177 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
7178 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
7179 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
7180 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
7181 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
7182 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
7183 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7184 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
7185 Closes ticket 25766.
7186 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
7187 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
7188 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
7189 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
7190 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
7191 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
7192 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
7193 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
7194 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
7195 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
7196 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7197 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
7198 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
7199 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
7201 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
7202 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
7203 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
7204 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
7205 before. Closes ticket 26016.
7206 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
7207 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
7208 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
7209 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
7211 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
7212 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
7213 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
7214 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7216 o Deprecated features:
7217 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
7218 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
7219 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
7220 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
7221 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
7222 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
7225 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
7226 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
7229 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
7230 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
7231 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
7232 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
7233 24378 and proposal 290.
7234 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
7235 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
7236 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
7237 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
7238 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
7239 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
7240 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
7241 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
7242 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
7243 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
7244 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
7245 their local router. Closes 25409.
7246 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
7247 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
7248 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
7249 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
7250 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
7251 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
7252 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
7253 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
7254 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
7255 Closes ticket 25268.
7258 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
7259 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
7260 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
7262 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
7263 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
7264 be nearly identical to this one.
7266 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
7267 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
7268 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
7269 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
7270 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
7271 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7273 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
7274 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
7275 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
7276 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
7277 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
7278 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
7279 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
7281 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
7282 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
7283 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
7285 o Minor features (config options):
7286 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
7287 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
7288 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
7291 o Minor features (geoip):
7292 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7293 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
7295 o Minor bugfixes (client):
7296 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
7297 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
7298 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
7299 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
7300 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7302 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7303 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
7304 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
7305 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7307 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
7308 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
7309 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
7310 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7311 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
7312 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
7313 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
7315 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7316 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
7317 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
7318 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
7319 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
7320 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
7321 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7323 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
7324 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
7325 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
7326 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
7327 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
7329 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7330 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
7331 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
7333 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
7334 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
7335 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
7337 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7338 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
7339 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
7341 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
7342 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
7343 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
7347 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
7348 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
7349 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
7350 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
7352 o New system requirements:
7353 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
7354 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
7356 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
7357 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
7358 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
7359 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
7360 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7362 o Minor features (geoip):
7363 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7364 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
7366 o Minor features (log messages):
7367 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
7368 information about memory usage from the different compression
7369 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
7371 o Minor features (sandbox):
7372 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
7373 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
7374 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
7376 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7377 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
7378 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
7379 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
7381 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
7382 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
7383 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
7385 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7386 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
7387 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
7388 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7390 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
7391 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
7392 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
7393 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7395 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7396 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
7397 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
7398 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
7400 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7401 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
7402 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
7404 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7405 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
7406 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
7407 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
7408 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
7409 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7411 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7412 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
7413 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
7414 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
7416 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
7417 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
7418 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
7419 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
7421 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
7422 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
7423 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
7424 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
7427 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
7428 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
7429 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
7430 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
7431 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7433 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7434 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
7435 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
7439 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
7441 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
7442 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
7445 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
7446 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
7449 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
7450 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
7452 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
7453 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
7455 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
7458 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
7459 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
7460 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
7462 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
7463 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
7464 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
7465 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
7468 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7469 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
7470 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
7471 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
7474 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7475 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
7476 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
7477 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
7478 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
7479 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
7480 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
7481 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
7482 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
7483 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
7484 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
7485 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
7486 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
7488 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7489 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
7490 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
7492 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7493 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
7494 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
7495 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
7496 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
7497 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
7498 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7500 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7501 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
7502 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7504 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7505 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
7506 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
7507 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
7508 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
7509 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
7510 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7512 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7513 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
7514 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
7515 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
7517 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
7518 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
7519 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
7520 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
7522 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7523 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
7524 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
7525 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
7526 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
7527 Closes ticket 24978.
7529 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
7530 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
7531 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
7532 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
7533 information. Closes ticket 24801.
7534 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
7535 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
7536 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
7537 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
7539 o Minor features (geoip):
7540 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7543 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7544 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
7545 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
7546 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
7547 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
7549 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7550 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
7551 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
7552 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
7553 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
7555 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
7556 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
7557 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
7558 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
7559 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
7562 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7563 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
7564 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
7565 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
7566 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
7567 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
7568 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
7569 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
7570 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
7571 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
7572 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
7575 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
7576 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
7577 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7579 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7580 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
7581 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
7584 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7585 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
7586 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
7587 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
7588 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
7589 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
7590 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
7592 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7593 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
7594 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7595 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
7596 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
7597 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
7598 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
7599 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
7600 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
7603 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
7604 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
7605 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
7606 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
7607 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
7608 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7610 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7611 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
7612 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
7613 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7615 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
7616 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
7617 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
7618 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
7619 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
7622 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
7623 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
7624 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
7625 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
7626 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
7627 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7629 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
7630 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
7631 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
7632 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
7633 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
7634 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
7635 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7636 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
7637 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
7638 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7639 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
7640 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7642 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7643 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
7644 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
7645 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7647 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7648 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
7649 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
7650 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7652 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
7653 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
7654 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
7655 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
7658 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
7659 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
7660 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
7661 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
7662 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
7664 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7665 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
7667 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
7668 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7670 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7671 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
7672 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
7675 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
7676 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
7679 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
7680 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
7682 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
7683 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
7685 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
7688 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
7689 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
7690 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
7692 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7693 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
7694 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
7695 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
7698 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
7699 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
7700 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
7701 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
7702 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
7703 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
7704 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
7705 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
7706 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
7707 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
7708 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
7709 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
7710 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
7712 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
7713 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
7714 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
7715 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
7716 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
7717 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
7718 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
7719 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
7720 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
7722 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
7723 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
7724 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
7725 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
7726 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
7727 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
7728 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7730 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
7731 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
7732 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
7733 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
7735 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
7736 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
7737 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
7738 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
7739 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
7740 Closes ticket 24978.
7742 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
7743 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
7744 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
7745 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
7747 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
7748 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
7749 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
7750 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
7751 information. Closes ticket 24801.
7752 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
7753 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
7754 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
7755 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
7757 o Minor features (geoip):
7758 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7761 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7762 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
7763 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
7765 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
7766 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
7767 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
7768 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
7769 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
7771 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
7772 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
7773 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
7774 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
7775 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
7777 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
7778 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
7779 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
7780 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
7781 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
7784 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7785 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
7786 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
7788 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7789 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
7790 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
7793 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7794 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
7795 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
7796 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
7797 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
7798 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
7799 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
7801 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
7802 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
7803 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
7804 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
7805 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
7808 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
7809 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
7810 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
7811 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
7812 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
7813 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7815 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
7816 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
7817 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
7818 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7820 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
7821 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
7822 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
7823 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
7824 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
7825 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
7826 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7827 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
7828 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
7829 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7830 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
7831 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7833 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
7834 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
7835 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
7836 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
7839 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7840 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
7841 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
7842 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
7843 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
7845 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7846 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
7848 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
7849 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
7852 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
7853 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
7854 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
7857 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
7858 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
7860 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
7861 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
7862 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
7863 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
7864 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
7865 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
7868 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
7869 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
7871 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
7874 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
7875 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
7876 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
7877 the DoS mitigations.)
7879 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7880 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
7881 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
7882 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
7885 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7886 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
7887 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
7888 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7890 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7891 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
7892 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
7893 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
7894 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
7895 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
7896 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
7897 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
7898 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
7899 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
7900 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
7901 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
7902 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
7904 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7905 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
7906 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
7907 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
7908 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
7909 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
7910 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7911 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
7912 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
7913 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
7914 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7916 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7917 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
7918 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7920 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7921 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
7922 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
7923 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
7924 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
7925 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
7926 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7928 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7929 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
7930 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
7931 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7933 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7934 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
7935 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
7936 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
7938 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7939 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
7940 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
7941 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
7942 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
7943 Closes ticket 24978.
7945 o Minor features (geoip):
7946 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7949 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7950 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
7951 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
7954 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7955 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
7956 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
7957 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
7958 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
7960 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
7961 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
7962 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
7963 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
7964 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
7965 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
7966 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
7968 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7969 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
7970 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
7971 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
7972 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
7974 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7975 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
7976 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
7977 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7979 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7980 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
7981 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
7982 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
7983 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7985 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
7986 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
7987 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
7988 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7990 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7991 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
7992 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
7993 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7995 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
7996 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
7997 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
7998 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8000 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8001 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8003 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8004 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8006 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
8007 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
8008 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
8010 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
8011 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
8012 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
8013 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
8014 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8016 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
8017 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
8018 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
8020 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
8021 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
8022 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
8026 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
8027 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
8028 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
8029 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
8031 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
8032 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
8033 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
8034 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
8035 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
8036 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8038 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
8041 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
8042 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
8043 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
8044 the DoS mitigations.)
8046 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
8047 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
8048 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
8049 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
8052 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
8053 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
8054 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
8055 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
8056 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
8057 Closes ticket 24978.
8059 o Minor features (logging):
8060 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
8061 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
8063 o Minor features (testing):
8064 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
8067 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
8068 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
8069 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
8070 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
8071 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
8072 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
8073 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
8075 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
8076 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
8077 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
8078 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8079 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
8080 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
8083 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
8084 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
8085 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
8086 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
8088 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8089 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
8090 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
8091 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
8092 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
8095 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
8096 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
8098 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
8099 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8101 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
8102 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
8103 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8104 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
8106 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8107 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
8108 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
8111 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
8112 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
8113 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
8114 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
8115 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
8116 it to older supported release series.
8118 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
8119 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
8120 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
8121 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
8122 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
8123 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
8124 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
8125 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
8126 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
8127 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
8128 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
8129 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
8130 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
8132 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
8133 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
8134 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
8135 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
8136 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
8137 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
8138 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
8139 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8141 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
8142 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
8143 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8145 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
8146 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
8147 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
8148 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8150 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8151 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
8152 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
8153 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
8155 o Minor features (directory authority):
8156 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
8157 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
8159 o Minor features (geoip):
8160 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8163 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
8164 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
8165 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
8168 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
8169 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
8170 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
8171 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
8172 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8174 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
8175 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
8176 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
8177 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
8178 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8180 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
8181 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
8182 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
8183 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
8185 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
8186 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
8187 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
8188 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
8189 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8191 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8192 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
8193 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
8194 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
8196 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8197 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
8198 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
8199 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8200 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
8201 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
8202 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8204 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8205 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
8206 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
8207 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
8208 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8209 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
8210 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
8211 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
8213 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8214 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
8215 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
8216 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
8217 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
8218 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
8219 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
8221 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
8222 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
8223 would call the Rust implementation of
8224 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
8225 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
8226 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
8227 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
8228 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8230 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
8231 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
8232 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
8235 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
8236 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
8237 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
8238 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
8239 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
8240 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
8242 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
8243 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
8244 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
8245 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
8246 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8248 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8249 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
8251 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
8252 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
8253 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
8256 o Documentation (man page):
8257 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
8258 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
8262 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
8263 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
8264 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
8265 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
8266 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
8267 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
8270 o Major features (embedding):
8271 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
8272 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
8273 Closes ticket 23684.
8274 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
8275 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
8276 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
8277 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
8278 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
8279 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
8281 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
8282 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
8283 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
8284 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
8285 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
8286 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
8287 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
8288 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
8289 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
8290 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
8291 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
8294 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
8295 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
8296 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
8297 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
8298 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
8299 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
8300 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
8302 o Major features (onion services):
8303 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
8304 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
8305 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
8306 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
8307 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
8310 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
8311 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
8312 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
8313 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
8314 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
8315 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
8316 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
8317 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
8319 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
8320 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
8321 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
8322 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
8323 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
8325 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
8326 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
8327 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
8328 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
8329 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
8330 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
8331 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8333 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
8334 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
8335 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
8336 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
8337 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
8338 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
8339 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
8340 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
8341 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
8342 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
8343 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8345 o Major bugfixes (relays):
8346 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
8347 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
8348 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
8349 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
8350 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
8351 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8353 o Minor feature (IPv6):
8354 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
8355 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
8356 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
8357 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
8358 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
8359 Implements ticket 23827.
8361 o Minor features (cleanup):
8362 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
8363 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
8365 o Minor features (defensive programming):
8366 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
8367 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
8368 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
8369 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
8370 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
8371 once. Part of ticket 24337.
8372 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
8373 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
8374 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
8376 o Minor features (embedding):
8377 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
8378 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
8379 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
8380 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
8381 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
8382 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
8383 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
8384 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
8385 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
8386 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
8387 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
8388 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
8389 Closes ticket 23848.
8390 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
8391 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
8392 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
8394 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8395 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
8396 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
8397 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
8398 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
8399 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
8400 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
8401 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
8404 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
8405 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
8406 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
8407 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
8408 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
8409 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
8410 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
8412 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
8413 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
8414 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
8415 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
8416 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
8417 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
8418 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
8419 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
8420 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
8421 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
8422 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
8423 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
8425 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
8426 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
8427 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
8429 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
8430 Implements ticket 24791.
8432 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
8433 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
8434 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
8435 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
8436 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
8437 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
8439 o Minor features (heartbeat):
8440 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
8441 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
8444 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
8445 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
8446 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
8447 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
8448 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
8450 o Minor features (log messages):
8451 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
8452 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
8453 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
8454 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
8456 o Minor features (logging, android):
8457 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
8460 o Minor features (performance):
8461 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
8462 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
8463 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
8464 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
8466 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
8467 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
8468 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
8469 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
8470 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
8471 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
8472 Implements ticket 24374.
8474 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
8475 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
8476 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
8477 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
8478 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
8480 o Minor features (performance, windows):
8481 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
8482 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
8483 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
8486 o Major features (relay):
8487 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
8488 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
8489 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
8490 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
8491 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
8493 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
8494 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
8495 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
8496 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
8497 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
8498 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
8499 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
8500 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
8501 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
8503 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
8504 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
8505 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
8506 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8508 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
8509 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
8510 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
8511 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
8512 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
8513 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
8514 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8515 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
8516 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
8517 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
8518 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
8519 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
8522 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
8523 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
8524 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
8525 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
8528 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
8529 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
8530 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
8533 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
8534 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
8535 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
8537 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
8538 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8539 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
8540 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
8541 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
8543 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
8544 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
8545 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
8546 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8548 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
8549 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
8550 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8551 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
8552 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
8553 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
8555 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8556 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
8557 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
8558 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
8560 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8561 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
8562 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
8563 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
8564 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8565 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
8568 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
8569 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
8570 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
8571 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
8573 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
8574 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
8575 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
8576 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8578 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
8579 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
8580 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
8581 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
8582 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
8583 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8584 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
8585 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
8586 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
8587 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
8588 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
8589 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8591 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8592 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
8593 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8594 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
8595 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
8597 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8598 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
8600 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
8601 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
8602 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
8603 "aruna1234" and teor.
8604 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
8605 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
8606 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
8607 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
8609 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
8610 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
8611 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
8612 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
8613 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
8614 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
8615 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
8616 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
8617 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
8618 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
8620 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
8621 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
8624 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
8625 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
8627 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
8628 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
8629 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
8630 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
8631 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
8632 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
8635 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
8636 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
8637 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
8638 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
8639 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
8641 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
8642 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
8643 adding very little except for unit test.
8645 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
8646 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
8647 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
8648 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
8650 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
8651 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
8652 const. Implements ticket 24489.
8655 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
8656 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
8658 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
8659 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
8660 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
8661 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
8662 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
8663 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
8665 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
8666 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
8667 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
8668 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
8669 with the 0.2.9 series.
8671 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
8672 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8674 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8675 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
8676 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
8677 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
8678 information. Closes ticket 24801.
8679 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
8680 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
8681 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
8682 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
8684 o Minor features (geoip):
8685 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8688 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
8689 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
8690 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
8691 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
8692 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
8695 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8696 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
8697 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8699 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
8700 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
8701 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
8702 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
8706 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
8707 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
8708 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
8709 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
8710 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
8711 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
8712 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
8714 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
8715 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
8716 will be nearly identical to this.
8718 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
8719 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
8720 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
8721 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
8722 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
8723 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
8724 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8726 o Minor features (geoip):
8727 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8730 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
8731 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
8732 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
8733 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8735 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
8736 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
8737 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
8738 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
8739 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
8742 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
8743 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
8744 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
8745 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
8746 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
8747 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8750 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
8751 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
8752 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
8754 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
8755 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
8756 be nearly identical to this.
8758 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
8759 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
8760 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
8761 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
8762 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
8763 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
8764 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
8766 o Minor features (logging):
8767 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
8770 o Minor features (portability):
8771 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
8772 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
8775 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
8776 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
8777 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
8778 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
8779 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8780 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
8781 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
8782 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
8783 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8784 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
8785 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
8786 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
8787 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8789 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8790 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
8791 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
8793 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8794 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
8795 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
8796 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
8797 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
8798 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
8799 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
8802 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8803 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
8804 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
8805 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
8806 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
8807 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
8808 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8810 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
8811 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
8812 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
8813 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8814 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
8815 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
8816 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
8817 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8818 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
8819 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
8820 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8823 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
8824 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
8825 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
8826 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
8829 o Major bugfixes (security):
8830 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
8831 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
8832 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
8833 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
8834 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
8835 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
8836 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
8837 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
8838 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
8839 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
8841 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
8842 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
8843 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
8844 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
8845 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
8846 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
8847 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
8850 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
8851 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
8852 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
8853 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
8854 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
8856 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
8857 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
8858 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
8859 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
8860 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
8861 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
8862 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
8863 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
8864 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
8866 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
8867 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
8868 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
8869 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
8871 o Minor features (directory authority):
8872 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
8875 o Minor bugfixes (client):
8876 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
8877 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
8878 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8881 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
8882 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
8883 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
8884 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
8886 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8887 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
8888 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
8889 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
8890 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
8891 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
8892 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
8893 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
8894 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
8895 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
8896 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
8898 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
8899 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
8900 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
8901 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
8902 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
8903 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
8904 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
8907 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8908 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
8909 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
8910 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
8911 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
8913 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8914 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
8915 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
8916 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
8917 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
8918 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
8919 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
8920 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
8921 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
8923 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
8924 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
8925 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
8926 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
8927 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
8928 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
8931 o Minor features (bridge):
8932 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
8933 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
8934 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
8935 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
8938 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8939 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
8942 o Minor features (geoip):
8943 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8946 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
8947 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
8948 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
8949 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
8950 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8952 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
8953 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
8954 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8956 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
8957 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
8958 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
8959 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
8960 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
8961 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8963 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
8964 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
8965 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
8968 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
8969 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
8970 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
8971 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
8972 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8975 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
8976 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
8977 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
8978 to another of the releases coming out today.
8980 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
8981 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
8982 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
8984 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
8985 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
8986 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
8987 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
8988 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
8989 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
8990 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
8991 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
8992 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
8993 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
8994 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
8996 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
8997 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
8998 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
8999 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9000 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9001 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9002 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9005 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9006 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9007 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9008 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9009 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9011 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9012 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9013 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9014 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9015 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9016 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9017 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
9018 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
9019 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9021 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9022 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9023 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9024 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9025 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9026 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9029 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9030 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
9031 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
9032 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
9033 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
9034 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
9036 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9037 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9038 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9039 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9040 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9043 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9044 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9047 o Minor features (geoip):
9048 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9051 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9052 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9053 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9054 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9055 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9057 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9058 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9059 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9061 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9062 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9063 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9064 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9065 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9066 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9068 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9069 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9070 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9071 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9072 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9074 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9075 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9076 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9079 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
9080 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9081 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9082 to another of the releases coming out today.
9084 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9085 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9086 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9087 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9088 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9089 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9092 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9093 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9094 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9095 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9096 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9097 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9098 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9099 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9100 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
9101 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
9102 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
9104 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9105 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9106 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9107 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9108 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9109 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9110 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9113 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9114 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9115 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9116 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9117 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9119 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9120 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9121 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9122 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9123 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9124 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9126 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9127 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9128 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9129 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9130 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9133 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9134 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9137 o Minor features (geoip):
9138 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9141 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
9142 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
9143 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
9144 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
9145 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
9146 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
9148 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9149 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
9150 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
9151 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
9152 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9154 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9155 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
9156 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9158 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9159 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9160 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9161 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9162 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9163 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9165 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
9166 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9167 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9168 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9169 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9171 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9172 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9173 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9176 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
9177 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9178 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9179 to another of the releases coming out today.
9181 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
9182 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
9183 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9185 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9186 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9187 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9188 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9189 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9190 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9191 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9192 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9193 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9194 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9195 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9196 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9197 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9198 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9199 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9202 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9203 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
9204 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
9205 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
9206 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
9208 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9209 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
9210 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
9211 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
9212 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
9215 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9216 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9217 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9218 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9219 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9222 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9223 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
9226 o Minor features (geoip):
9227 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9230 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9231 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
9232 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
9235 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
9236 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
9237 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
9238 to another of the releases coming out today.
9240 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
9241 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
9242 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9244 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9245 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
9246 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
9247 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
9248 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
9249 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
9250 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
9251 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
9252 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
9253 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
9254 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
9255 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
9256 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
9257 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
9258 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
9261 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
9262 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
9263 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
9264 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
9265 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
9266 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
9268 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
9269 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
9270 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
9271 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
9272 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
9275 o Minor features (geoip):
9276 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9280 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
9281 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
9282 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
9283 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
9284 since the 0.3.0.x series.
9286 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
9287 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
9290 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
9291 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
9292 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
9293 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
9294 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
9295 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
9296 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
9297 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
9298 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
9299 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
9300 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
9303 o Minor features (directory authority):
9304 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
9305 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
9306 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
9307 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
9309 o Minor features (geoip):
9310 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9313 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9314 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
9315 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
9317 o Minor features (logging):
9318 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
9319 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
9321 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
9322 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
9324 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9325 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
9326 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
9327 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
9328 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
9329 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
9330 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
9331 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
9333 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9334 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
9335 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
9338 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
9339 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
9340 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
9341 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9343 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
9344 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
9345 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9346 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
9347 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
9348 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
9349 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
9350 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
9351 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
9354 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9355 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
9356 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9357 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
9358 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
9359 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
9360 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9362 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
9363 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
9364 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
9365 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
9366 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
9367 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9369 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9370 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
9371 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
9372 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
9373 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9374 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
9375 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
9377 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
9378 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
9379 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9381 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
9382 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
9383 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
9384 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
9385 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
9386 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
9387 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
9388 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
9391 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
9392 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
9393 section. Closes ticket 24254.
9396 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
9397 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
9398 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
9399 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
9402 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
9403 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
9404 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
9405 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
9406 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
9407 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
9410 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
9411 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
9412 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
9413 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
9414 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9416 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
9417 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
9418 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
9419 Closes ticket 23753.
9421 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
9422 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
9423 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
9424 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
9425 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
9427 o Minor features (testing):
9428 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
9429 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
9431 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
9432 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
9433 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
9434 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
9435 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9437 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
9438 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
9439 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
9440 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
9441 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
9444 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
9445 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
9446 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
9447 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
9448 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9450 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
9451 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
9452 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
9453 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9455 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9456 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
9457 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
9459 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
9460 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9461 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
9463 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9464 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
9465 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
9466 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9467 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
9468 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9470 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
9471 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
9472 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
9473 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
9474 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
9475 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
9476 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9477 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
9478 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
9479 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9480 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
9481 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
9483 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
9484 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
9485 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
9486 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
9487 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9489 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9490 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
9491 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9492 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
9493 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
9494 Closes ticket 24109.
9497 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
9498 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
9499 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
9500 directory authority, Bastet.
9502 o Directory authority changes:
9503 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9504 Closes ticket 23910.
9505 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9506 Closes ticket 23592.
9508 o Minor features (bridge):
9509 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
9510 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
9511 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
9512 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
9513 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
9514 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
9515 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
9517 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
9518 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
9519 Resolves ticket 23670.
9521 o Minor features (geoip):
9522 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9525 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
9526 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
9527 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
9528 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9530 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9531 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
9532 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9534 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
9535 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
9536 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
9537 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
9538 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
9539 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9541 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
9542 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
9543 only fetch the service descriptor once.
9544 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
9545 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
9546 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9548 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
9549 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
9550 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
9551 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
9553 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
9554 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
9555 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9557 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
9558 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
9559 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
9560 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
9561 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
9563 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
9564 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
9565 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9567 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9568 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
9569 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
9572 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9573 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
9574 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
9575 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
9576 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9577 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
9578 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
9579 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
9581 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
9582 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
9583 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
9584 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
9585 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
9588 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
9589 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
9590 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
9591 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
9592 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
9596 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
9597 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
9598 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
9600 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
9601 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
9602 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9604 o Directory authority changes:
9605 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9606 Closes ticket 23910.
9607 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9608 Closes ticket 23592.
9610 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9611 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
9612 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
9613 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
9614 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
9616 o Minor features (geoip):
9617 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9620 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
9621 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
9622 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
9623 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
9624 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
9625 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
9626 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
9627 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
9628 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
9630 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9631 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
9632 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
9633 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
9634 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
9635 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
9636 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
9637 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
9638 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
9641 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
9642 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
9643 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
9644 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
9646 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
9647 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
9648 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9650 o Directory authority changes:
9651 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9652 Closes ticket 23910.
9653 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9654 Closes ticket 23592.
9656 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9657 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9658 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9659 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9661 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9662 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9663 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9664 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9665 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9667 o Minor features (geoip):
9668 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9672 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
9673 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
9674 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
9675 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
9677 o Directory authority changes:
9678 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9679 Closes ticket 23910.
9680 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9681 Closes ticket 23592.
9683 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9684 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9685 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9686 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9688 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9689 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9690 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9691 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9692 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9694 o Minor features (geoip):
9695 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9698 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9699 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
9700 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
9701 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
9702 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
9703 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
9704 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
9705 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
9708 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
9709 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
9710 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9712 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9713 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
9714 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
9715 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
9716 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
9717 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9718 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
9721 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
9722 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
9723 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
9724 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
9726 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
9727 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
9728 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
9730 o Directory authority changes:
9731 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9732 Closes ticket 23910.
9733 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9734 Closes ticket 23592.
9736 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9737 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9738 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9739 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9741 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9742 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9743 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9744 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9745 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9747 o Minor features (geoip):
9748 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9751 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
9752 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
9753 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
9754 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
9755 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
9756 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
9757 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
9758 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
9761 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9762 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
9763 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
9764 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9766 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
9767 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
9768 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9770 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
9771 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
9772 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
9773 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
9774 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
9775 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
9776 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
9779 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
9780 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
9781 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
9782 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
9783 a new directory authority, Bastet.
9785 o Directory authority changes:
9786 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
9787 Closes ticket 23910.
9788 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
9789 Closes ticket 23592.
9791 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9792 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9793 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9794 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9796 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9797 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9798 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9799 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9800 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9802 o Minor features (geoip):
9803 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9806 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9807 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
9808 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
9809 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
9811 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9812 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
9813 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
9816 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
9817 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
9818 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
9820 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9821 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
9822 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
9823 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9825 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
9826 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
9827 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9829 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
9830 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
9831 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
9835 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
9836 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
9837 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
9838 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
9839 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
9840 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
9842 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
9843 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
9844 include better testing and logging.
9846 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
9849 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
9850 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
9851 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
9852 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
9854 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
9855 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
9856 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
9857 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
9858 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
9859 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
9860 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9862 o Minor features (build, compilation):
9863 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
9864 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
9865 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
9866 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
9867 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
9868 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
9869 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
9870 Closes ticket 23643.
9872 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9873 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
9874 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
9875 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
9876 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
9878 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
9879 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
9880 the circuit identifier(s).
9881 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
9882 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
9884 o Minor features (logging):
9885 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
9886 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
9887 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
9888 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
9889 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
9891 o Minor features (relay):
9892 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
9893 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
9894 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
9895 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
9897 o Minor features (robustness):
9898 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
9899 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
9901 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
9902 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
9903 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
9904 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
9905 related to ticket 23080.
9907 o Minor features (testing):
9908 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
9909 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
9912 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
9913 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
9914 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
9916 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
9917 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
9920 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
9921 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
9922 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
9923 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
9924 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
9925 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
9926 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
9927 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
9928 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9930 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
9931 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
9932 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
9935 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9936 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
9937 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
9938 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
9940 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
9941 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
9942 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
9943 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
9944 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9945 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
9946 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
9947 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
9950 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
9951 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
9952 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
9953 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9955 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
9956 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
9957 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
9958 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
9959 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
9960 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9962 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
9963 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
9964 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
9965 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9966 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
9967 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
9968 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9969 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
9970 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9971 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
9972 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
9974 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
9975 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
9976 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
9977 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9978 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
9979 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9981 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9982 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
9983 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
9985 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
9986 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
9988 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
9989 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
9990 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9992 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9993 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
9994 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
9997 o Deprecated features:
9998 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
9999 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
10000 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
10003 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
10004 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10005 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
10006 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
10007 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
10008 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
10009 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
10010 Closes ticket 18736.
10013 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
10014 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
10015 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
10016 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
10017 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
10018 features and bugfixes here.
10020 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
10022 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
10023 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
10024 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
10025 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
10026 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
10027 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
10028 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
10029 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
10030 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
10031 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
10032 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
10033 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
10035 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
10036 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
10037 more information, see the design paper at
10038 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
10039 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
10040 Closes ticket 12541.
10042 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
10043 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
10044 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
10045 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
10046 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
10047 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
10050 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
10051 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
10053 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
10056 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
10059 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
10061 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
10063 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
10065 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
10066 they are 56 characters long, as in
10067 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
10069 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
10070 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
10071 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
10072 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
10073 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
10076 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
10077 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
10078 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
10079 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
10080 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
10081 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
10084 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
10085 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
10086 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
10087 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
10089 o Minor features (bug detection):
10090 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
10091 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
10092 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
10094 o Minor features (client):
10095 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
10096 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
10097 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
10098 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
10099 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
10100 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
10101 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
10102 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
10103 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
10104 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
10106 o Minor features (command line):
10107 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
10108 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
10109 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
10111 o Minor features (control port):
10112 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
10113 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
10114 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
10116 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
10117 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
10119 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
10120 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
10121 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
10122 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
10123 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
10124 Closes ticket 23237.
10125 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
10126 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
10128 o Minor features (development support):
10129 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
10130 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
10131 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
10132 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
10133 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
10134 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
10136 o Minor features (ed25519):
10137 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
10138 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
10139 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
10141 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
10142 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
10143 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
10145 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
10146 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
10147 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
10148 another program, regardless of the settings of
10149 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
10150 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
10151 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
10153 o Minor features (logging):
10154 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
10155 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
10156 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
10158 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
10159 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
10161 o Minor features (portability):
10162 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
10163 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
10164 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
10165 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
10167 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
10168 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
10169 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
10170 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
10171 results. Closes ticket 22731.
10173 o Minor features (startup, safety):
10174 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
10175 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
10178 o Minor features (static analysis):
10179 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
10180 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
10183 o Minor features (testing):
10184 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
10185 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
10186 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
10187 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
10188 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
10190 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
10191 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
10192 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
10193 Coverity as CID 1415728.
10195 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
10196 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
10197 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
10198 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
10199 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
10200 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
10201 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
10202 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10204 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10205 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
10206 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
10207 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
10208 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
10209 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
10210 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
10211 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
10213 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10214 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10215 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10217 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
10218 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
10219 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
10220 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
10222 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
10223 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
10224 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
10225 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
10226 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
10227 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
10229 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
10230 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
10233 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
10234 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
10235 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
10236 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10238 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
10239 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
10240 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
10241 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
10242 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
10243 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
10244 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
10247 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
10248 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
10249 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
10250 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10252 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
10253 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
10254 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10256 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10257 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
10258 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
10259 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10260 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
10261 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
10263 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
10264 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
10265 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
10267 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
10268 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
10269 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
10271 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
10272 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
10273 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
10274 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
10276 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10277 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
10278 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10280 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10281 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
10282 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
10283 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
10284 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
10285 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
10286 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
10287 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10289 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
10290 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
10291 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
10292 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10293 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
10294 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
10295 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10297 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
10298 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
10299 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
10300 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10302 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10303 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
10304 function from the general code to handle channel state
10305 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
10306 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
10307 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
10308 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
10309 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
10310 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
10311 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
10312 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
10314 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
10315 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
10317 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
10318 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
10319 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
10320 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
10321 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10322 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
10323 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
10324 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
10325 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
10326 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
10327 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
10328 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
10330 o Deprecated features:
10331 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
10332 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
10333 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
10337 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
10338 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
10339 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
10340 Closes ticket 15645.
10341 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
10342 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
10343 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
10344 file. Closes ticket 21148.
10346 o Removed features:
10347 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
10348 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
10349 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
10350 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
10351 Closes ticket 21031.
10352 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
10353 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
10356 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
10357 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
10360 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10361 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10362 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10363 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10365 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
10366 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
10367 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
10368 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
10370 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10371 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10372 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10373 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10374 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10377 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10380 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10381 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
10382 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
10385 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10386 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10387 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10388 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10389 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10390 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10391 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10392 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10393 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10395 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10396 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10397 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10398 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10399 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10400 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10401 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10402 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10403 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10406 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
10407 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
10410 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10411 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10412 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10413 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10415 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
10416 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
10417 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
10418 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
10419 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
10420 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
10421 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
10423 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
10424 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
10425 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
10426 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
10428 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
10429 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
10430 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10432 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10433 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
10434 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10435 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
10437 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10438 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10439 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10440 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10441 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10443 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
10444 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
10445 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
10446 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
10448 o Minor features (geoip):
10449 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10452 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10453 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
10454 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
10455 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
10457 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10458 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
10459 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10460 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
10461 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10462 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
10463 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
10464 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10466 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10467 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
10468 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10470 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10471 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
10472 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
10475 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10476 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10477 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10478 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
10479 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10481 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10482 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
10483 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
10484 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
10485 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
10486 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10488 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10489 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
10490 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
10491 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
10492 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
10493 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
10494 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
10495 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
10496 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
10498 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10499 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
10500 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
10501 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10503 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10504 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
10505 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10507 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
10508 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
10509 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
10510 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
10511 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10513 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
10514 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
10515 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
10518 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10519 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
10520 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
10521 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
10522 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10524 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10525 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10526 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10527 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10528 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10529 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10530 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10531 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10532 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10535 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
10536 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
10539 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
10540 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
10541 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
10542 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10544 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10545 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
10546 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
10547 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
10550 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10553 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10554 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
10555 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10557 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
10558 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10559 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10560 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
10561 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10563 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10564 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
10565 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
10566 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10568 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
10569 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
10570 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
10572 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
10573 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
10574 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
10575 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
10578 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
10579 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
10581 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
10582 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
10583 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
10584 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
10585 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
10586 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
10587 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
10589 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
10590 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
10591 disabled. For more information, see
10592 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
10594 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
10595 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
10596 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
10597 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
10598 with the 0.2.9 series.
10600 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
10601 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
10603 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
10604 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
10605 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
10606 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
10607 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
10609 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10610 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
10611 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
10612 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
10615 o Minor features (diagnostic):
10616 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
10617 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
10618 attempt for bug 23105.
10620 o Minor features (geoip):
10621 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10624 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10625 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
10626 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10628 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10629 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
10630 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10631 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
10632 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10634 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10635 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
10636 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
10637 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10639 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
10640 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
10641 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
10645 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
10646 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
10647 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
10648 Windows directory caches.
10650 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
10651 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
10652 will be nearly identical to it.
10654 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
10655 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
10656 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
10657 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
10658 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
10659 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10661 o Minor features (directory authority):
10662 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
10663 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
10664 Closes ticket 22348.
10666 o Minor features (geoip):
10667 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10670 o Minor features (testing):
10671 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
10674 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
10675 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
10676 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10678 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
10679 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
10680 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
10681 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
10682 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
10683 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
10684 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
10685 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
10686 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
10687 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10689 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
10690 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
10691 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
10693 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
10694 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
10695 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
10696 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
10698 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10699 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
10700 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
10701 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
10702 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10704 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
10705 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
10706 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
10707 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
10708 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
10709 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
10711 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
10712 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
10713 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
10714 with the clang static analyzer.
10716 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10717 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
10718 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
10719 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
10720 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
10723 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
10724 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
10725 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
10726 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
10727 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
10728 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
10729 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
10732 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
10733 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
10734 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
10735 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
10737 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10738 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10739 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10740 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10741 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10742 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10743 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10744 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10745 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10747 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10748 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
10749 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10750 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
10752 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10753 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10754 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10755 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10756 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10758 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10759 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10762 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
10763 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
10764 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
10765 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
10767 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10768 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
10769 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10770 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
10771 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10772 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
10773 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
10774 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
10777 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10778 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
10779 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
10782 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10783 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
10784 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
10785 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
10786 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
10787 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10789 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
10790 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
10791 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
10792 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10794 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
10795 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
10796 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10798 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
10799 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
10800 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10803 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
10804 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
10805 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
10806 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
10807 next version will be a release candidate.
10809 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
10810 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
10811 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
10812 one of those versions should upgrade.
10814 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
10815 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
10816 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
10817 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
10818 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
10819 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
10820 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
10821 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
10822 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
10824 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
10825 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
10826 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
10827 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
10828 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
10830 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
10831 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
10832 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
10833 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
10834 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
10835 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10837 o Minor features (bridge authority):
10838 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
10839 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
10841 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
10842 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
10843 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
10844 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
10845 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
10848 o Minor features (geoip):
10849 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10852 o Minor features (relay, performance):
10853 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
10854 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
10855 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
10856 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
10857 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
10860 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
10861 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
10862 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
10863 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
10864 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
10866 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
10867 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
10868 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
10869 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
10870 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10872 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
10873 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
10874 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10875 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
10876 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10877 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
10878 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
10879 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10880 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
10881 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
10882 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
10885 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
10886 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
10887 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
10888 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
10889 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
10890 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10892 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10893 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
10894 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
10895 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
10896 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
10897 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
10898 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
10899 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
10902 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
10903 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
10904 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
10907 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
10908 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
10909 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
10910 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10912 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10913 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
10914 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10916 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10917 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
10918 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
10919 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
10921 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
10922 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
10923 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
10924 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
10925 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10926 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
10927 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10930 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
10931 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
10932 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
10933 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
10934 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
10937 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
10938 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
10941 o New dependencies:
10942 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
10943 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
10944 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
10945 close ticket 22623.)
10947 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
10948 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
10949 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
10950 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
10951 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
10952 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
10954 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
10955 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
10956 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
10957 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10959 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
10960 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
10961 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
10962 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
10963 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10965 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
10966 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
10967 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
10968 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10970 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
10971 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
10972 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
10973 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
10975 o Minor features (geoip):
10976 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10979 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
10980 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
10981 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
10983 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
10984 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10985 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
10986 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
10987 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
10988 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
10990 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
10991 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
10993 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
10994 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
10995 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
10996 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
10997 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
10999 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
11000 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
11001 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
11002 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
11003 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11004 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11005 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11006 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11007 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11008 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11009 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11010 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11012 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11013 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11014 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11015 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11016 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11017 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
11018 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
11019 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
11020 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11022 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11023 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
11024 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
11025 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
11026 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
11027 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
11028 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11029 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
11030 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
11031 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
11032 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11033 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
11034 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
11035 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
11036 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
11037 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11039 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
11040 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
11041 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
11042 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
11043 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
11044 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
11045 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
11049 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
11051 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
11052 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
11054 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
11055 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
11056 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
11060 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
11061 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
11062 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
11063 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
11064 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
11067 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
11070 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11071 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
11072 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
11073 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
11074 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
11075 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
11077 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11078 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
11079 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
11080 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11082 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11083 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
11084 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
11085 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11087 o Minor features (geoip):
11088 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11091 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11092 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
11093 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
11094 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11095 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11097 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11098 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
11099 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
11100 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
11101 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11103 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11104 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11105 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11106 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11107 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11108 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11109 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11110 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11111 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11114 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
11115 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
11116 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11117 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11118 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
11120 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
11121 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
11122 bugfixes described below.
11124 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11125 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
11126 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
11127 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11128 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11129 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11130 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11133 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
11134 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11135 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11136 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11137 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11138 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11139 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11142 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
11143 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
11144 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
11145 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
11146 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
11147 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
11148 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
11149 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11150 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
11151 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
11152 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
11153 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
11154 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
11157 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
11158 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
11159 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
11161 o Minor features (code style):
11162 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
11163 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
11164 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
11166 o Minor features (diagnostic):
11167 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
11168 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
11169 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
11170 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
11172 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11173 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11174 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11176 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
11177 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
11178 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11180 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
11181 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
11182 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
11183 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
11184 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
11185 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
11186 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11188 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
11189 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
11190 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
11191 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
11192 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11194 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
11195 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
11196 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
11200 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
11203 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
11204 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
11205 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11206 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11207 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
11209 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
11210 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
11211 bugfixes described below.
11213 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
11214 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11215 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
11216 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
11217 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11218 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11219 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11220 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11223 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11224 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11225 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11226 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11227 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11228 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11229 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11232 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11233 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
11234 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
11235 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
11236 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
11237 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
11238 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
11239 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11240 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
11241 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
11242 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
11243 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
11244 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
11247 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11248 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
11249 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
11252 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11253 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11254 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11255 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11256 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11258 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11259 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
11260 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11262 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11263 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11264 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11266 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11267 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
11268 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
11269 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
11270 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
11271 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
11272 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11274 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
11276 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11277 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11278 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11281 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
11282 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11283 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11284 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11285 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11286 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11288 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
11289 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
11290 bugfixes described below.
11292 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
11293 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11294 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11295 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11296 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11299 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11300 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
11301 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
11302 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
11303 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
11304 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
11305 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
11308 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11309 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11310 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11311 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11312 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11314 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
11315 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
11316 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
11317 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
11318 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
11319 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
11320 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
11322 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
11323 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
11324 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
11325 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
11326 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
11328 o Minor features (geoip):
11329 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11332 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
11333 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
11334 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
11335 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11337 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11338 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11339 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11341 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
11342 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
11343 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
11344 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
11345 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
11348 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
11349 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
11350 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11351 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11352 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11354 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
11355 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11356 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11357 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11358 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11359 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11361 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11362 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11363 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11364 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11367 o Minor features (geoip):
11368 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11371 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
11372 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11373 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11374 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11375 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11377 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11378 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11379 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11381 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
11382 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11383 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11384 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11385 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11386 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11388 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11389 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11390 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11391 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11394 o Minor features (geoip):
11395 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11398 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11399 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11400 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11403 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
11404 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11405 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11406 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11407 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11408 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11410 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11411 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11412 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11413 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11416 o Minor features (geoip):
11417 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11420 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11421 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11422 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11424 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
11425 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11426 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11427 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11428 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11429 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11431 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11432 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11433 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11434 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11437 o Minor features (geoip):
11438 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11441 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11442 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11443 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11445 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
11446 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
11447 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
11448 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
11449 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
11450 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
11452 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
11453 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
11454 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
11455 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
11458 o Minor features (geoip):
11459 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11462 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11463 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
11464 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
11467 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
11468 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
11469 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
11470 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
11472 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
11473 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
11474 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
11475 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
11476 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11478 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11479 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
11480 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
11483 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
11484 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
11485 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
11486 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11489 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
11490 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
11491 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
11492 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
11493 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
11496 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
11497 security, correctness, and performance.
11499 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
11501 o Major features (directory protocol):
11502 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
11503 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
11504 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
11505 now request these documents when available. When both client and
11506 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
11507 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
11508 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
11509 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
11510 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
11511 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
11512 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
11513 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
11514 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
11515 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
11516 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
11517 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
11518 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
11520 o Major features (experimental):
11521 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
11522 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
11523 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
11524 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
11525 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
11526 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
11527 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
11529 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
11530 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
11531 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
11532 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
11533 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
11534 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
11537 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
11538 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
11539 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
11540 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
11541 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
11542 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
11543 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
11544 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
11545 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
11546 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
11547 multiples of 10000.
11549 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
11550 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
11551 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
11552 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
11553 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
11554 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
11555 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
11556 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
11557 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
11558 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
11559 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
11560 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
11561 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
11562 Otherwise it is at info.
11564 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
11565 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
11566 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
11567 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11569 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
11570 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
11571 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11572 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
11574 o Minor features (security, windows):
11575 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11576 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11577 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11578 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11579 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11581 o Minor features (config options):
11582 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
11583 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
11584 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
11585 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
11586 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
11587 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
11588 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
11589 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
11591 o Minor features (controller):
11592 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
11593 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
11595 o Minor features (defaults):
11596 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
11597 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
11598 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
11599 can. Closes ticket 21407.
11600 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
11601 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
11602 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
11603 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
11604 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
11605 Closes ticket 21641.
11607 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
11608 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
11609 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
11610 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
11611 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
11612 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
11613 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
11615 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
11616 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
11617 introduction points than specified in
11618 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
11619 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
11620 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
11621 21594; closes ticket 21622.
11622 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
11623 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
11624 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
11625 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
11627 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11628 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
11629 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
11630 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
11631 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
11632 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
11633 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
11634 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
11635 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
11636 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
11638 o Minor features (logging):
11639 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
11640 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
11641 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
11642 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
11645 o Minor features (performance):
11646 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
11647 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
11649 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
11650 speed some controller functions.
11652 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
11653 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
11654 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
11655 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
11657 o Minor features (safety):
11658 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
11659 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
11660 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
11663 o Minor features (testing):
11664 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
11665 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
11666 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
11667 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
11668 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
11669 on. Closes ticket 21439.
11670 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
11671 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
11672 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
11673 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
11674 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
11675 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
11676 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
11677 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
11678 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
11679 21507. Partially implements 21470.
11681 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
11682 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
11683 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
11684 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
11686 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11687 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
11688 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
11689 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
11692 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
11693 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
11694 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11696 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
11697 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
11698 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
11699 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
11700 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
11701 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
11702 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
11703 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
11704 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
11705 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
11706 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
11707 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
11708 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
11709 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
11711 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11712 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
11713 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11714 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
11715 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
11716 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
11717 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
11718 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11720 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11721 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
11722 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
11723 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11724 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
11725 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
11726 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
11728 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
11729 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
11730 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
11731 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
11732 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
11734 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
11735 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
11736 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11737 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
11738 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
11739 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11740 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
11741 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11742 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
11743 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
11744 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11746 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11747 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
11748 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
11749 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11750 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
11751 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
11752 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11754 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
11755 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
11756 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11758 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
11759 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
11760 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
11761 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
11762 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
11764 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11765 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
11766 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
11767 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11768 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
11769 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11770 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
11771 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
11772 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
11773 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
11775 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
11776 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
11777 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
11778 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
11779 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
11781 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
11782 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
11783 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11785 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11786 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
11787 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
11788 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
11789 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
11790 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
11791 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
11792 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
11793 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
11794 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
11795 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
11796 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
11798 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
11799 Resolves ticket 22213.
11800 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
11801 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
11802 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
11803 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
11804 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
11805 types. Closes ticket 21651.
11806 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
11807 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
11810 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
11811 Closes ticket 21873.
11812 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
11813 Closes ticket 21151.
11814 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
11815 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
11817 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
11818 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11819 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
11820 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
11822 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
11823 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
11824 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
11825 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
11826 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
11827 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
11828 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
11829 default behavior is now unavailable.
11830 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
11831 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
11832 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
11833 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
11834 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
11835 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
11836 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
11838 o Removed features (tools):
11839 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
11840 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
11841 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
11842 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
11843 required. Closes ticket 21842.
11846 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
11847 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
11848 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
11849 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
11850 clients are not affected.
11852 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
11853 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
11854 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
11855 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
11856 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
11857 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11860 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11863 o Minor features (future-proofing):
11864 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
11865 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
11866 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
11867 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
11868 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
11869 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
11871 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11872 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
11873 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
11874 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
11875 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
11879 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
11880 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
11882 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
11883 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
11884 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
11885 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
11886 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
11887 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
11890 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
11891 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
11893 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
11894 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
11895 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
11896 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
11897 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
11899 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
11900 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11902 o Minor features (geoip):
11903 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11906 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
11907 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
11908 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
11909 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11911 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
11912 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
11913 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
11914 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11917 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
11918 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
11919 0.3.0 release series.
11921 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
11922 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
11923 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
11926 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
11927 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
11928 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
11929 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
11931 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
11932 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
11933 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
11934 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11935 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
11937 o Minor features (geoip):
11938 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11941 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
11942 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
11943 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
11944 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
11947 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11948 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
11949 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
11950 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
11951 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
11952 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
11953 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
11954 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
11956 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11957 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
11958 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11960 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11961 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
11962 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
11965 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
11966 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
11967 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
11968 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
11969 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11972 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
11973 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
11974 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
11978 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
11979 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
11980 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
11981 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
11982 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
11985 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
11986 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
11987 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
11989 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
11990 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
11991 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
11992 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
11993 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
11994 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
11995 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
11997 o Minor features (geoip):
11998 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12002 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
12003 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12004 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
12005 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12008 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
12009 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12010 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12012 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12013 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12015 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12016 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12017 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12019 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12020 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12021 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12024 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12025 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12026 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12027 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12028 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12029 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12030 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12031 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12032 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12034 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12035 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12036 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12037 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12038 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12039 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12040 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12041 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12042 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12043 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12044 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12045 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12046 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12048 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12049 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12050 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12051 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12052 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12054 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12055 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12056 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12058 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12059 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12060 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12061 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12062 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12063 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12064 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12067 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12068 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12069 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12070 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12071 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12072 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12073 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12075 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12076 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12077 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12078 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12081 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12082 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12083 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12084 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12086 o Minor features (geoip):
12087 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12091 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
12092 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12093 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
12094 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12097 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
12098 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12099 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12101 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12102 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12104 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12105 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12106 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12108 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12109 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12110 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12113 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12114 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12115 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12116 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12117 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12118 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12119 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12120 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12121 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12123 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12124 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12125 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12126 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12127 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12128 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12129 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12130 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12131 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12133 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12134 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12135 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12136 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12137 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12139 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12140 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12141 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12142 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12143 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12146 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12147 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12148 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12149 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12150 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12152 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12153 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12154 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12156 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12157 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12158 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12159 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12160 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12161 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12164 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12165 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12166 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12167 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12168 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12169 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12170 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12173 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12174 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12175 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12176 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12177 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12178 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12179 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12181 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12182 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12183 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12184 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12187 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12188 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12189 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12190 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12192 o Minor features (geoip):
12193 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12196 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12197 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12198 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12201 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
12202 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12203 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
12204 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12207 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
12208 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
12209 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12211 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12212 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12214 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12215 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12216 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12218 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12219 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12220 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12223 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12224 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12225 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12226 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12227 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12228 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12229 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12230 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12231 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12233 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12234 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12235 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12236 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12237 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12238 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12239 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12240 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12241 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12243 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12244 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12245 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12246 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12247 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12249 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12250 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12251 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12252 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12253 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12256 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12257 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12258 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12259 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12260 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12262 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12263 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12264 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12266 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12267 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12268 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12269 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12270 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12271 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12274 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12275 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12276 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12277 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12278 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12279 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12280 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12283 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12284 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12285 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12286 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12287 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12288 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12289 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12291 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12292 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12293 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12294 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12297 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12298 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12299 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12300 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12302 o Minor features (geoip):
12303 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12306 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12307 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12308 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12310 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
12311 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
12312 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
12313 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
12314 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
12315 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
12317 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12318 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12319 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12323 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
12324 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
12325 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
12326 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
12329 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
12330 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
12331 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
12333 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
12334 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12336 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
12337 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
12338 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
12340 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12341 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12342 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12345 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12346 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
12347 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
12348 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
12349 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
12350 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
12351 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
12352 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
12353 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
12355 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
12356 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
12357 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
12358 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
12359 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
12360 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
12361 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
12362 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
12363 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
12365 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
12366 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
12367 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
12368 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
12369 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
12372 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12373 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12374 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12375 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12376 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12378 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12379 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12380 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12382 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12383 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
12384 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
12385 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
12386 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
12387 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
12390 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
12391 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12392 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12393 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12394 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12395 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12396 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12399 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
12400 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12401 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12402 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12403 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12404 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12405 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12407 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
12408 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12409 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12410 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12413 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
12414 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12415 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12416 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12418 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12419 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
12420 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
12421 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
12423 o Minor features (geoip):
12424 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12427 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
12428 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
12429 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
12431 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
12432 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
12433 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
12437 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
12438 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
12439 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
12440 keep them from coming back.
12442 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
12443 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
12444 will be nearly identical to it.
12446 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
12447 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
12448 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
12449 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
12450 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
12451 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12453 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
12454 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
12455 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12457 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
12458 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
12459 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
12460 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
12461 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
12462 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
12463 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
12464 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
12465 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
12466 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12467 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12468 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12469 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12470 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12471 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12473 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
12474 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
12475 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
12477 o Minor features (directory authorities):
12478 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
12479 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
12481 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
12482 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
12483 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12484 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
12485 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
12486 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
12487 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
12489 o Minor features (geoip):
12490 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12493 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
12494 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
12495 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
12498 o Minor features (testing):
12499 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
12500 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
12501 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
12503 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
12504 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
12505 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
12507 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12508 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
12509 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
12510 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
12511 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
12512 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12514 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
12515 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
12516 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
12517 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12518 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
12519 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
12520 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
12523 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
12524 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
12525 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
12526 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12527 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
12528 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
12529 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12531 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12532 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
12533 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
12534 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
12535 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
12536 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12538 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12539 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
12540 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
12542 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
12543 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12544 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
12545 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
12546 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12549 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
12552 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
12553 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
12554 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
12555 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
12557 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
12558 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
12559 least January of 2020.
12561 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12562 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
12563 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
12564 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
12567 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12568 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
12569 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
12570 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
12571 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
12572 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
12573 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12575 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
12576 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
12577 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
12578 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
12579 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
12580 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
12581 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
12583 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
12584 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
12585 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
12587 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
12588 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
12589 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12591 o Minor features (geoip):
12592 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12595 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12596 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
12597 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
12599 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
12600 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
12602 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
12603 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
12604 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
12606 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
12607 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
12608 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
12609 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12610 Patch by "junglefowl".
12613 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
12614 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
12615 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
12616 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
12617 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
12618 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
12620 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
12621 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
12622 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
12625 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
12626 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
12627 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
12628 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
12630 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
12631 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
12632 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
12633 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
12634 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12636 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
12637 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
12638 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
12639 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
12640 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12642 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
12643 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
12644 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
12645 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
12646 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
12647 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
12648 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12650 o Minor feature (client):
12651 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
12652 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
12654 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
12655 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
12656 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
12657 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
12659 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
12660 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
12661 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
12662 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
12663 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
12665 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
12666 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
12667 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
12668 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
12669 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
12670 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
12671 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
12672 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
12673 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
12674 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
12676 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
12677 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
12678 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
12680 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
12681 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
12683 o Minor features (relay):
12684 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
12685 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
12686 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
12687 Written by Michael Sonntag.
12689 o Minor bugfix (logging):
12690 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
12691 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
12692 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
12693 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
12696 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12697 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
12698 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
12699 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12701 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
12702 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
12703 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
12705 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
12706 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12707 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
12708 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
12709 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12710 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
12711 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
12713 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
12714 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
12715 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
12716 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
12717 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
12718 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
12719 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
12722 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12723 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
12724 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12726 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12727 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
12728 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
12729 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
12730 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12731 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
12732 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
12733 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
12735 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
12736 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
12737 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12739 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12740 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
12741 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
12742 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
12744 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
12745 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
12746 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
12747 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12749 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
12750 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
12751 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
12752 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12753 Patch by "junglefowl".
12755 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
12756 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
12757 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
12761 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
12762 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
12763 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
12764 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
12765 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
12766 version should upgrade.
12768 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
12769 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
12770 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
12771 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
12772 the set of fallback directories, and more.
12774 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
12775 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
12776 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
12777 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
12778 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
12779 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
12782 o Major features (security):
12783 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
12784 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
12785 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
12786 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
12787 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
12788 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
12790 o Major features (directory authority, security):
12791 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
12792 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
12793 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
12795 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
12796 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
12797 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
12798 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
12799 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
12802 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
12803 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
12804 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
12805 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
12806 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
12807 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
12808 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
12809 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
12810 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
12811 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
12812 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12814 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
12815 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
12816 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12818 o Minor features (controller):
12819 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
12820 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
12822 o Minor features (entry guards):
12823 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
12824 break regression tests.
12825 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
12826 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
12828 o Minor features (fallback directories):
12829 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
12831 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
12832 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
12833 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
12834 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
12835 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
12836 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
12837 Closes ticket 20539.
12838 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
12840 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
12841 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
12842 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
12843 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
12844 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
12846 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
12847 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
12848 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
12849 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
12850 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
12851 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
12852 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
12853 Closes ticket 20822.
12854 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
12855 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
12857 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
12858 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12861 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
12862 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
12863 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
12864 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
12866 o Minor features (linting):
12867 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
12868 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
12870 o Minor features (logging):
12871 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
12872 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
12874 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
12875 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
12876 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
12877 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
12878 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
12879 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
12881 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
12882 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
12883 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
12884 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
12886 o Minor bugfixes (build):
12887 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
12888 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
12891 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
12892 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
12893 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
12894 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12896 o Minor bugfixes (config):
12897 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
12898 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
12899 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
12900 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12902 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12903 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
12904 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
12907 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
12908 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
12909 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
12910 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
12911 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12913 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12914 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
12915 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
12917 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12918 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
12919 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12920 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
12921 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
12922 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
12923 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
12924 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
12925 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
12927 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
12928 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
12929 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
12930 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12932 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12933 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
12934 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
12935 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12936 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
12937 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12939 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
12940 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
12941 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12942 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
12943 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
12944 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
12945 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
12946 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
12948 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12949 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
12950 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12952 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
12953 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
12954 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
12955 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
12957 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
12958 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12960 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12961 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
12962 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
12963 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
12964 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
12966 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12967 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
12968 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12970 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
12971 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
12972 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
12973 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
12974 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12976 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12977 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
12978 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
12980 o Documentation (formatting):
12981 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
12982 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
12984 o Documentation (man page):
12985 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
12986 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
12989 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
12990 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
12991 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
12992 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
12993 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
12994 version should upgrade.
12996 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
12997 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
12999 o Major bugfixes (security):
13000 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
13001 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
13002 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
13003 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
13004 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
13005 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13007 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
13008 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
13009 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
13010 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
13011 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
13012 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
13013 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
13014 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
13015 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
13016 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
13017 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13019 o Minor features (geoip):
13020 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13023 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13024 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
13025 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
13026 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
13028 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
13029 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13032 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
13033 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
13034 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
13035 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
13036 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
13037 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
13038 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
13039 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
13041 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
13043 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
13044 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
13045 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
13046 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
13047 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
13050 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
13051 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
13052 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
13053 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
13054 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
13055 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
13056 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
13057 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
13060 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
13061 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
13062 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
13063 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
13064 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
13066 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
13067 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
13068 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
13069 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
13070 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
13071 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
13072 15056; part of proposal 220.
13073 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
13074 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
13075 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
13076 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
13077 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
13079 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
13080 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
13081 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
13082 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
13083 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13085 o Minor features (controller):
13086 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
13087 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
13090 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
13091 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
13092 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
13095 o Minor features (directory authority):
13096 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
13097 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
13098 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
13099 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
13100 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
13102 o Minor features (directory cache):
13103 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
13104 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
13107 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
13108 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
13109 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
13110 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
13112 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
13113 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
13114 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
13115 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
13117 o Minor features (infrastructure):
13118 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
13119 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
13121 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13122 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
13123 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
13124 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
13126 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13127 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
13128 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13129 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
13130 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
13131 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
13133 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
13134 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
13135 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
13136 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
13137 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
13139 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
13140 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
13141 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
13142 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
13143 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13145 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
13146 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
13147 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
13148 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
13149 on all recent tor versions.
13150 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
13151 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
13152 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
13153 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13155 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
13156 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
13157 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13159 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13160 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
13161 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
13162 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
13165 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
13166 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
13167 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
13170 o Minor bugfixes (util):
13171 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
13172 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
13173 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
13174 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
13176 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
13177 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
13178 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
13179 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
13181 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13182 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
13183 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
13184 Closes ticket 19858.
13185 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
13186 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
13187 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
13188 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
13189 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
13190 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
13191 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
13192 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
13193 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
13194 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
13195 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
13196 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
13197 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
13198 redundant with the similar structures used in the
13199 channel abstraction.
13200 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
13201 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
13202 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
13203 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
13204 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
13205 replaced with code automatically generated by the
13209 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
13210 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13211 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
13212 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
13214 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
13215 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
13217 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
13218 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
13219 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
13220 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
13221 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
13224 o Removed features:
13225 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
13226 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
13227 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
13229 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
13230 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
13231 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
13234 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
13235 from "overcaffeinated".
13236 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
13237 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
13238 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
13239 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
13240 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
13244 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
13245 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
13246 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
13247 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
13248 become available for their systems.
13250 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
13253 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
13254 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
13256 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
13257 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13258 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13259 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13260 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13261 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13262 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13263 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13264 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13266 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
13267 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
13268 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
13269 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
13270 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
13272 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
13273 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13277 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
13278 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
13280 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
13281 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
13282 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
13283 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
13284 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
13285 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
13286 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
13287 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
13289 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
13291 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
13292 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
13293 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
13294 become available for their systems.
13296 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
13297 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13299 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
13300 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13301 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13302 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13303 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13304 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13305 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13306 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13307 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13309 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13310 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
13311 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
13312 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
13313 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
13316 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
13317 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
13318 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
13321 o Minor features (geoip):
13322 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13325 o Minor bugfix (build):
13326 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
13327 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
13328 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
13330 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13331 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
13332 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
13333 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13335 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
13336 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
13337 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
13339 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13340 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
13341 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
13344 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
13345 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
13346 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13347 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
13348 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
13349 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13351 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13352 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
13353 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
13354 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13356 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13357 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
13358 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
13360 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13361 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
13362 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
13363 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
13364 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
13365 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
13366 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13367 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
13368 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
13369 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
13372 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
13373 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
13374 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
13375 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
13378 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13379 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
13380 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
13381 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
13382 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
13383 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
13386 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13387 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
13388 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
13391 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
13392 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
13393 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
13394 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
13396 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13397 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
13398 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
13399 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13402 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13403 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
13404 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
13405 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13408 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
13409 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
13410 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
13413 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13414 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
13415 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13417 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
13418 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
13419 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
13421 o Minor features (geoip):
13422 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13425 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
13426 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
13427 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
13428 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
13429 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
13431 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
13432 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
13433 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
13434 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
13435 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
13436 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13438 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
13439 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
13440 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13442 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13443 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
13444 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
13445 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
13446 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
13447 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
13449 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13450 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
13451 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
13453 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
13454 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
13456 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
13457 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
13458 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
13459 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
13460 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
13461 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
13463 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13464 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
13465 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
13469 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
13470 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
13473 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
13474 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
13475 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
13476 everyone to test this release.
13478 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
13479 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
13480 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
13481 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13484 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
13485 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
13486 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
13487 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
13490 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
13491 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
13492 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
13493 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
13494 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13495 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
13496 download, stop waiting for certificates.
13497 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
13498 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
13499 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
13501 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
13502 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
13503 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
13504 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13505 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
13506 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13507 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
13508 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
13509 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13510 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
13511 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
13512 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
13514 o Minor features (geoip):
13515 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13518 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
13519 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
13520 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
13521 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
13522 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
13523 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13525 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
13526 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
13527 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
13528 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13529 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
13530 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13532 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13533 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
13534 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
13535 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
13538 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13539 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
13540 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
13541 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
13542 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
13543 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13544 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
13545 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13547 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
13548 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
13549 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13551 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13552 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
13553 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
13554 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
13555 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13556 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
13557 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
13558 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13560 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
13561 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
13562 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
13565 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13566 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
13567 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13570 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
13571 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13572 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
13573 tickets 19287 and 19290.
13576 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
13577 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
13578 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
13579 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
13580 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
13583 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13584 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13585 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13586 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13587 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13588 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13589 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13590 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13591 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13593 o Minor features (geoip):
13594 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13598 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
13599 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
13600 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
13601 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
13602 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
13605 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
13606 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
13607 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
13608 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
13609 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
13610 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
13611 be a release candidate.
13613 o Major features (security fixes):
13614 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13615 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13616 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13617 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13618 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13619 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13620 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13621 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13623 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
13624 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
13625 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
13626 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
13627 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
13628 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
13629 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
13630 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
13631 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
13632 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
13633 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
13634 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
13635 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
13636 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
13639 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
13640 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
13641 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
13643 o Minor features (client, directory):
13644 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
13645 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
13646 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
13649 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
13650 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
13653 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
13654 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
13655 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
13658 o Minor features (geoip):
13659 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13662 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
13663 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
13664 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
13665 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
13666 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
13668 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
13669 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
13670 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
13671 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
13674 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
13675 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
13676 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
13677 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
13678 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
13680 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
13681 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
13682 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
13685 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
13686 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
13687 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
13688 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
13690 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13691 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
13692 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
13693 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
13695 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
13696 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
13697 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
13698 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
13701 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13702 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
13703 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
13707 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
13708 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
13710 o Required libraries:
13711 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
13712 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
13713 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
13716 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
13717 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
13718 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
13719 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
13720 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
13721 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
13722 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
13723 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
13725 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
13726 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
13727 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
13728 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
13729 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
13730 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13732 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
13733 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
13734 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
13735 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
13736 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
13739 o Major features (circuit building, security):
13740 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
13741 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
13742 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
13744 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
13745 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
13747 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
13748 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
13749 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
13750 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
13751 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
13752 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
13753 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
13754 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
13755 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
13756 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
13757 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
13759 o Major features (resource management):
13760 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
13761 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
13762 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
13763 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
13764 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
13765 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
13767 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
13768 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
13769 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
13770 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
13772 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
13773 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
13774 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
13775 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13777 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13778 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
13779 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
13780 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
13781 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
13782 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
13784 o Minor features (security, TLS):
13785 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
13786 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
13787 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
13788 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
13790 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
13791 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
13792 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
13793 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
13795 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
13796 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13799 o Minor feature (port flags):
13800 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
13801 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
13802 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
13803 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
13804 18693; patch by "teor".
13806 o Minor features (directory authority):
13807 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
13808 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
13809 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
13811 o Minor features (testing):
13812 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
13813 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
13814 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
13815 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
13817 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
13818 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
13819 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
13820 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
13821 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
13822 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
13823 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
13824 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
13825 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
13827 o Minor features (Tor2web):
13828 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
13829 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
13830 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
13832 o Minor features (unit tests):
13833 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
13834 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
13835 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
13836 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
13837 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
13838 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
13839 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
13840 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
13842 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
13843 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
13844 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
13845 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
13846 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
13847 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
13848 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
13849 assertion as a test failure.
13851 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
13852 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
13853 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
13854 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
13855 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
13856 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
13858 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
13859 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
13860 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
13861 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
13862 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
13863 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
13864 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
13865 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
13866 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
13867 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
13868 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13869 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
13870 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
13871 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
13872 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
13873 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13875 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13876 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
13877 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
13878 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
13879 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13880 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
13881 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
13884 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
13885 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
13886 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
13887 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
13888 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
13889 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
13890 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
13893 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13894 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
13895 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
13896 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
13898 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
13899 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
13900 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
13902 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13903 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
13904 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
13905 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
13906 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
13907 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13909 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13910 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
13911 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
13912 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
13914 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
13915 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
13916 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
13918 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
13919 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
13920 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
13921 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
13922 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
13923 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
13925 o Minor bugfixes (options):
13926 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
13927 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
13929 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
13930 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
13931 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13934 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
13935 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
13936 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
13937 19678. Patch by teor.
13939 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13940 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
13941 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
13942 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
13943 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
13944 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
13946 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
13947 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
13951 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
13952 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
13953 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
13954 who select public relays as their bridges.
13956 o Major bugfixes (crash):
13957 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
13958 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
13959 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
13960 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
13961 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13963 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
13964 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
13965 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
13966 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
13967 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
13970 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
13971 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
13972 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
13973 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
13975 o Minor features (geoip):
13976 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
13980 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
13981 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
13982 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
13983 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
13984 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
13985 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
13987 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
13988 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13989 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13991 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
13992 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
13993 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
13994 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
13995 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
13996 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13998 o Major features (user interface):
13999 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
14000 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
14001 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
14003 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
14004 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
14005 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
14006 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
14008 o Minor features (config):
14009 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
14010 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
14012 o Minor features (geoip):
14013 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14016 o Minor features (user interface):
14017 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
14018 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
14021 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
14022 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
14023 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
14025 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14026 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
14027 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
14029 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
14030 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
14031 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
14032 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14034 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
14035 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
14036 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
14039 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
14040 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
14041 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
14042 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
14044 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14045 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
14046 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14048 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
14049 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
14050 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14052 o Deprecated features:
14053 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
14054 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
14055 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
14056 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
14057 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
14058 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
14059 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
14060 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
14061 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14062 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
14063 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
14064 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
14065 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
14066 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
14067 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
14068 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
14069 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
14070 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
14071 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
14072 and TransListenAddress.
14075 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
14076 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
14079 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
14080 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
14083 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
14084 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
14085 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
14086 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
14087 encouraged to upgrade.
14089 o Directory authority changes:
14090 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14091 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14093 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
14094 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
14095 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
14096 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
14097 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
14098 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14100 o Minor features (geoip):
14101 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14104 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14105 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
14106 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
14109 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14110 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
14111 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
14112 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
14115 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
14116 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
14117 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
14118 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
14119 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
14120 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
14121 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
14122 security, correctness, and performance.
14124 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
14126 o New system requirements:
14127 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
14128 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
14129 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
14130 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
14131 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
14132 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
14133 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
14134 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
14136 o Major features (build, hardening):
14137 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
14138 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
14139 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
14140 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
14141 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
14142 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
14143 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
14144 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
14145 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
14147 o Major features (compilation):
14148 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
14149 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
14150 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
14151 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
14153 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
14154 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
14155 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
14157 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
14158 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
14159 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
14160 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
14161 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
14162 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
14163 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
14164 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
14166 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
14167 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
14168 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
14169 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
14170 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
14171 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
14172 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
14174 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
14175 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
14176 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
14177 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
14178 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
14179 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
14180 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
14182 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
14183 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
14184 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
14185 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
14186 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
14188 o Minor features (build, hardening):
14189 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
14190 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
14191 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
14192 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
14193 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
14194 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
14195 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
14196 Closes ticket 18895.
14198 o Minor features (code safety):
14199 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
14200 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
14203 o Minor features (controller):
14204 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
14205 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
14206 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
14207 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
14208 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
14209 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
14210 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
14211 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
14213 o Minor features (directory authority):
14214 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
14215 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
14216 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
14217 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
14218 Implements ticket 18624.
14219 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
14220 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
14221 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
14224 o Minor features (hidden service):
14225 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
14226 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
14227 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
14230 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
14231 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
14232 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
14233 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
14234 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
14235 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
14236 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
14237 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
14238 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
14239 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
14240 Closes ticket 18365.
14242 o Minor features (logging):
14243 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
14244 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
14245 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
14246 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
14247 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
14248 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
14249 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
14250 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
14251 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
14252 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
14254 o Minor features (performance):
14255 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
14256 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
14257 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
14258 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
14259 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
14260 Closes ticket 18815.
14262 o Minor features (relay, usability):
14263 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
14264 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
14265 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
14266 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
14269 o Minor features (testing):
14270 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
14271 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14272 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
14273 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
14274 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
14275 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
14276 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
14277 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
14280 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
14281 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
14282 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
14283 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
14284 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14286 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14287 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
14288 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
14289 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
14290 patch from "cypherpunks".
14292 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
14293 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
14294 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14296 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14297 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
14298 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
14299 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14301 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14302 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
14303 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
14304 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14305 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
14306 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
14307 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
14308 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14310 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14311 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
14312 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14313 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
14314 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
14315 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
14316 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
14318 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
14319 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
14320 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
14323 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
14324 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
14325 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
14327 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
14328 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
14329 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
14332 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
14333 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
14334 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
14335 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
14338 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14339 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
14340 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
14342 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14343 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
14344 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
14347 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14348 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
14349 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
14350 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
14351 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
14352 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
14353 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14354 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
14355 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
14358 o Minor bugfixes (time):
14359 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
14360 bugfix on all released tor versions.
14361 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
14362 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
14363 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
14364 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
14366 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
14367 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
14368 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
14369 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
14370 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
14372 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
14373 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14375 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14376 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
14378 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
14379 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
14380 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
14381 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
14384 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
14385 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
14387 o Removed features:
14388 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
14389 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
14390 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
14391 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
14392 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
14393 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
14394 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
14397 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
14398 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
14399 command-line options to enable them.
14400 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
14401 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
14404 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
14406 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
14408 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
14409 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
14410 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
14411 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
14412 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
14413 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
14415 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
14417 o Minor features (geoip):
14418 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14421 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14422 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
14423 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14425 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14426 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
14427 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
14428 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
14430 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14431 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
14432 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
14433 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
14434 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14435 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
14436 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
14437 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14440 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
14441 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
14442 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
14443 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
14444 against previous versions.
14446 o Directory authority changes:
14447 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14449 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
14450 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
14451 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
14452 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
14454 o Minor features (build):
14455 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
14456 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
14457 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
14458 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
14459 Patch from intrigeri.
14461 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
14462 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
14463 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
14466 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
14467 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
14468 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
14469 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
14470 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
14473 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14474 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
14475 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
14476 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
14477 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
14478 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
14479 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
14481 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
14482 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
14483 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
14484 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
14486 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
14487 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
14488 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
14489 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
14490 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
14491 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14493 o Fallback directory list:
14494 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
14495 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
14496 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
14497 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
14498 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
14499 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
14500 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
14501 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
14502 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
14505 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
14506 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
14507 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
14508 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
14511 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
14512 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
14513 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
14514 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14516 o Minor features (build):
14517 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
14518 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
14520 o Minor features (geoip):
14521 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14524 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14525 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
14526 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14528 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
14529 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
14530 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
14531 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
14535 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
14536 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
14537 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
14538 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
14539 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
14542 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
14543 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14544 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14545 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14546 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14548 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
14549 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
14550 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
14551 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
14552 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
14553 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
14555 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
14556 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
14557 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
14558 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14560 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
14561 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
14562 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
14563 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
14564 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
14565 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
14566 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
14568 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
14569 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
14571 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
14572 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
14573 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
14575 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
14576 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
14577 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
14578 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
14579 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
14580 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14583 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
14584 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
14585 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
14588 o Major bugfixes (key management):
14589 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14590 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14591 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14592 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14593 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14594 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14597 o Major bugfixes (testing):
14598 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
14599 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
14600 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
14601 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14603 o Minor features (clients):
14604 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
14605 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
14606 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
14608 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
14609 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
14610 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
14611 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
14612 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
14613 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
14614 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
14615 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
14616 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
14617 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
14619 o Minor features (geoip):
14620 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14623 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
14624 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
14625 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
14628 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
14629 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
14630 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
14632 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14633 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
14634 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
14636 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
14637 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
14639 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
14640 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
14643 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14644 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
14645 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
14646 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
14647 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14648 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
14649 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
14650 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14652 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
14653 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
14654 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
14655 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
14656 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14658 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
14659 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
14660 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
14661 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14662 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
14663 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
14666 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
14667 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
14668 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
14669 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
14670 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
14671 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14673 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14674 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
14675 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
14676 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14677 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
14678 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14679 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
14680 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14682 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
14683 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
14684 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
14685 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14687 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
14688 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
14689 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
14690 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
14691 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
14692 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
14695 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
14696 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
14697 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
14699 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
14700 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
14701 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14703 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
14704 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
14705 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
14707 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14708 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
14709 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
14710 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
14711 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
14712 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
14713 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14715 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
14716 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
14717 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
14718 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
14721 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
14722 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
14723 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
14724 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
14727 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
14728 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
14729 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
14730 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
14731 directory support should also be much improved.
14733 o New system requirements:
14734 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
14735 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
14736 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
14737 longer runs with, these versions.
14738 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
14739 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
14740 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
14742 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
14743 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
14744 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
14745 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
14746 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
14748 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
14749 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14750 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14751 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14752 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14754 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
14755 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
14756 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
14757 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
14758 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
14760 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
14761 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
14762 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
14763 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14765 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
14766 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
14767 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14768 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
14769 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14771 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
14772 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
14773 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
14774 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
14775 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
14776 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14779 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
14780 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14781 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14783 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
14784 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
14785 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
14786 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
14789 o Major bugfixes (voting):
14790 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
14791 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
14792 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
14793 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
14795 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
14796 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
14797 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
14798 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14799 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
14800 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
14801 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
14802 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
14803 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
14804 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14806 o Minor features (security, win32):
14807 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
14808 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
14811 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
14812 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14813 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14814 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14816 o Minor features (build):
14817 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
14818 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
14819 Steven Chamberlain.
14821 o Minor features (code hardening):
14822 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
14823 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
14824 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
14827 o Minor features (crypto):
14828 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
14829 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
14832 o Minor features (geoip):
14833 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14836 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
14837 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
14838 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
14839 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
14840 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
14842 o Minor features (IPv6):
14843 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
14844 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
14845 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
14846 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
14847 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
14848 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
14849 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
14851 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14852 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
14853 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
14854 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
14855 while fixing 18548.
14857 o Minor features (robustness):
14858 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
14859 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
14860 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
14862 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
14863 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
14864 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
14865 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
14866 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
14867 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
14868 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
14871 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
14872 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
14873 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
14874 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
14875 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
14877 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
14878 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
14879 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
14880 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
14882 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14883 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
14884 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
14886 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
14887 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
14888 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14889 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
14890 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
14891 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
14893 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
14894 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
14895 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
14896 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
14897 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14899 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14900 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
14901 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
14902 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
14905 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14906 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
14907 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14909 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
14910 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
14911 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
14912 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
14914 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14915 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
14916 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
14917 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
14918 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
14919 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14921 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
14922 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
14923 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
14924 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
14926 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
14927 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
14928 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
14929 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
14930 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
14932 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
14933 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
14934 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
14935 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
14936 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
14937 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
14938 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
14939 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
14940 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
14943 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
14944 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
14945 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
14946 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14948 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
14949 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
14950 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
14952 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14953 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
14954 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
14955 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14956 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
14957 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
14958 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14959 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
14960 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14962 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14963 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
14964 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
14965 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
14966 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
14967 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
14968 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
14969 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
14970 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
14971 Christian, patch by teor.
14973 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
14974 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
14975 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
14976 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
14978 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
14979 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
14980 patch by "cypherpunks".
14981 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
14983 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
14984 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14986 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
14987 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
14988 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
14989 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
14991 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
14992 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
14993 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
14996 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14997 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
14998 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
14999 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
15000 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
15001 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15003 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
15004 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
15005 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
15006 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
15008 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
15009 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
15010 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
15011 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
15013 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15014 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
15015 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
15016 17744. Patch from zerosion.
15017 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
15018 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
15019 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
15020 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
15021 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
15024 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
15025 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
15026 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
15028 o Removed features:
15029 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
15030 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
15031 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
15034 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
15036 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
15037 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
15040 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
15041 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
15042 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
15043 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
15044 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
15046 o Major features (security, Linux):
15047 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
15048 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
15049 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
15050 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
15051 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
15053 o Major features (directory system):
15054 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
15055 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
15056 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
15057 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
15058 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
15059 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
15060 "mikeperry" and "teor".
15061 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
15062 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
15063 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
15064 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
15065 15775. Patch by "teor".
15066 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
15067 "gsathya", and "karsten".
15068 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
15069 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
15070 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
15071 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
15072 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
15075 o Major key updates:
15076 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15077 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15080 o Minor features (security, clock):
15081 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
15082 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
15083 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
15084 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
15086 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
15087 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
15088 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
15089 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
15090 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
15091 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15093 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
15094 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
15095 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
15096 Implements ticket 17026.
15097 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
15098 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
15099 Implements feature 17986.
15100 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
15101 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
15102 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
15103 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15104 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15105 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15108 o Minor features (security, RNG):
15109 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
15110 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
15111 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
15112 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
15113 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
15114 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
15115 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
15116 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
15117 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
15118 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
15121 o Minor features (accounting):
15122 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
15123 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
15124 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
15125 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
15127 o Minor features (build):
15128 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
15129 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
15130 patch from "cypherpunks."
15131 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
15132 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
15133 17549, 17921, and 17984.
15135 o Minor features (controller):
15136 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
15137 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
15138 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
15139 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
15140 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
15141 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
15142 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
15143 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
15146 o Minor features (crypto):
15147 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
15149 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
15150 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
15151 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
15152 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
15153 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
15154 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
15155 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
15156 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15158 o Minor features (directory downloads):
15159 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
15160 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
15161 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
15162 17864; patch by "teor".
15163 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
15164 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
15165 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
15167 o Minor features (geoip):
15168 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15171 o Minor features (IPv6):
15172 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
15173 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
15174 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
15175 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
15176 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
15177 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
15178 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
15179 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
15180 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
15181 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
15182 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
15184 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
15185 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15186 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
15187 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
15189 o Minor features (logging):
15190 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
15191 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
15192 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
15193 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
15196 o Minor features (portability):
15197 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
15198 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
15200 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
15201 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
15202 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
15203 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
15204 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
15206 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
15207 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
15208 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
15209 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
15210 Resolves ticket 17951.
15212 o Minor features (replay cache):
15213 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
15214 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
15216 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
15217 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
15218 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
15219 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
15220 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15221 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
15222 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
15223 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
15224 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
15225 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
15226 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15227 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
15228 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
15229 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15231 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
15232 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
15233 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
15234 from "unixninja92".
15236 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15237 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
15238 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
15239 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15240 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
15241 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
15243 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
15246 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15247 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
15248 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
15249 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15250 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
15251 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
15252 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15253 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
15255 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
15256 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
15257 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
15258 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
15259 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
15260 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
15261 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15262 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
15264 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
15265 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15267 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
15268 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
15269 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15271 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15272 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
15273 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
15274 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15276 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
15277 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
15278 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15280 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15281 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
15282 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15284 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15285 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
15286 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
15287 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
15288 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
15290 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
15291 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15293 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15294 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
15295 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
15298 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
15299 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
15300 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
15301 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
15302 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
15303 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
15305 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
15306 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
15307 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
15308 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
15309 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
15311 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
15312 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
15313 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
15316 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
15317 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
15318 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
15319 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15320 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
15321 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
15322 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
15323 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
15326 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15327 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
15328 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
15329 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
15330 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
15331 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15332 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
15333 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
15334 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
15335 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
15337 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
15338 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15340 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15341 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
15342 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
15343 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
15344 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
15345 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
15346 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
15347 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
15348 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
15349 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
15351 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
15352 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
15353 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
15354 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
15356 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
15357 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
15358 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
15359 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
15360 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
15362 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
15363 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
15366 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
15367 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
15368 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
15369 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
15370 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
15371 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
15372 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
15375 o Removed features:
15376 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
15377 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
15378 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
15379 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
15380 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
15383 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
15384 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
15385 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
15386 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
15387 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
15388 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
15389 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
15390 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
15391 portion of ticket 16831.
15392 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
15393 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
15394 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
15396 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
15397 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
15400 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
15401 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
15402 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
15404 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
15405 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15406 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15407 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15408 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15409 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15412 o Minor features (geoip):
15413 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15416 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15417 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
15418 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
15419 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
15420 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15421 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15423 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15424 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
15425 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
15426 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
15427 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
15428 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
15429 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
15430 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15431 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
15432 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15435 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
15436 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
15437 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
15438 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
15439 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
15440 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
15441 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
15442 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
15443 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
15444 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
15445 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
15446 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
15447 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
15448 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
15449 that would make him proud.
15451 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
15453 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
15454 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
15455 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
15456 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
15457 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
15458 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
15459 of Tor invoke which others.
15461 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
15464 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
15465 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
15466 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
15467 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
15468 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
15469 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
15470 release will the the official stable release.
15472 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
15473 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15474 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15475 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15476 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15479 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
15480 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
15481 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15483 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
15484 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
15485 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15486 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
15487 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15488 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
15489 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
15491 o Minor features (geoIP):
15492 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15495 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15496 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
15497 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
15498 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
15499 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15500 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
15501 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
15503 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15504 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
15505 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
15508 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
15509 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
15510 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
15511 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
15513 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15514 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
15515 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
15516 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
15517 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
15518 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
15519 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
15520 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
15521 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
15522 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
15523 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
15527 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
15528 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
15532 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
15533 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
15534 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
15535 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
15536 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
15538 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
15539 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
15540 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
15541 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
15543 o Major features (security, hidden services):
15544 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
15545 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
15546 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
15547 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
15548 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
15549 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
15550 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
15552 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
15553 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
15554 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
15555 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
15556 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
15557 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
15560 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
15561 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
15562 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
15563 available. Implements ticket 16535.
15564 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
15565 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
15568 o Major features (performance testing):
15569 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
15570 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
15571 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
15573 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
15574 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
15575 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
15576 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
15578 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
15579 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
15580 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
15581 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
15582 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
15583 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
15585 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
15586 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
15588 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
15589 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
15590 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
15591 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
15592 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
15594 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
15595 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
15596 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
15597 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
15598 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
15599 own. Implements feature 15482.
15600 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
15601 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
15603 o Minor features (compilation):
15604 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
15605 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
15606 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
15607 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
15608 which started requiring ECC.
15610 o Minor features (geoip):
15611 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15614 o Minor features (hidden services):
15615 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
15616 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
15617 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
15618 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
15619 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
15620 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
15621 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
15622 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
15624 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
15625 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
15626 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
15629 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
15630 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
15631 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
15632 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
15634 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
15635 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
15636 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
15637 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
15638 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
15640 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
15641 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
15642 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
15643 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
15644 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15645 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
15646 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
15647 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
15648 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
15649 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
15650 Related to ticket 16069.
15651 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
15652 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
15653 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
15654 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
15655 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
15656 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15658 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
15659 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
15660 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15661 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
15662 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
15664 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
15665 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
15666 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15668 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
15669 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
15670 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
15671 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15673 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15674 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
15675 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
15676 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
15677 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15679 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
15680 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
15681 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
15682 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
15683 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
15684 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
15685 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
15686 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
15687 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
15688 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
15689 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
15692 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
15693 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
15694 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15696 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15697 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
15698 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15699 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
15700 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15702 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
15703 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
15704 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
15705 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
15707 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15708 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
15709 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
15711 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
15712 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15713 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
15714 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
15715 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
15716 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15717 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
15718 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15720 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15721 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
15722 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
15723 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
15724 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
15726 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
15727 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
15730 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15731 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
15732 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
15733 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
15734 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
15735 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
15736 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
15737 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
15738 function. Closes ticket 16763.
15739 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
15740 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
15741 suite of other microdesc functions.
15742 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
15743 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
15744 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
15745 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
15746 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
15747 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
15748 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
15749 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
15750 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
15751 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
15753 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
15754 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
15756 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
15759 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
15760 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
15761 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
15762 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
15766 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
15767 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
15768 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
15769 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
15770 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
15771 Closes ticket 13338.
15772 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
15773 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
15774 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
15775 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
15776 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
15777 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
15780 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
15781 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
15782 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
15783 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
15784 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
15785 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
15786 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
15788 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
15789 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
15790 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
15791 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
15792 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
15793 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
15794 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
15795 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
15796 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
15797 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
15798 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
15799 network before we begin.
15800 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
15801 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
15802 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
15803 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
15804 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
15805 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
15806 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
15807 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
15810 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
15811 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
15812 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
15813 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
15814 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
15815 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
15817 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
15818 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
15819 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
15821 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
15822 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
15823 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
15824 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
15825 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
15826 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
15827 Implements part of ticket 12498.
15828 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
15829 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
15830 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
15831 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
15832 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
15833 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
15834 part of ticket 12498.
15835 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
15836 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
15837 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
15838 key). Closes ticket 13642.
15840 o Major features (Hidden services):
15841 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
15842 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
15843 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
15844 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
15845 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
15847 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
15848 introduction points, which used to change the number of
15849 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
15850 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
15852 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
15853 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
15854 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
15855 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
15856 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
15857 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
15859 o Major features (performance):
15860 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
15861 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
15862 Implements ticket 16467.
15863 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
15864 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
15865 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
15866 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
15868 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
15869 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
15870 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
15871 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
15872 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
15873 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
15875 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
15876 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
15877 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
15878 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
15879 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
15880 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
15881 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
15882 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
15885 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15886 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
15887 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
15888 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
15889 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
15890 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
15891 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
15894 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
15895 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
15896 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
15897 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
15898 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
15899 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
15901 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
15902 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
15903 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
15904 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
15905 by "cypherpunks_backup".
15906 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
15907 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
15908 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
15911 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
15912 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
15913 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
15914 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
15915 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
15916 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
15917 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
15919 o Minor features (client):
15920 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
15921 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
15922 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
15924 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
15925 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
15926 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
15927 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15928 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
15929 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
15930 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
15933 o Minor features (control protocol):
15934 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
15935 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
15937 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15938 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
15939 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
15940 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
15941 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
15942 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
15944 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
15945 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15946 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
15948 o Minor features (hidden services):
15949 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
15950 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
15951 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
15952 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
15955 o Minor features (portability):
15956 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
15957 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
15958 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
15960 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
15961 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
15962 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
15963 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
15965 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15966 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
15967 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
15968 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15970 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
15971 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15972 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15973 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15974 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15975 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15977 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15978 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
15979 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
15980 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15981 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
15982 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
15983 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15985 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15986 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
15987 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15989 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
15990 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
15991 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
15992 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
15994 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
15995 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
15996 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
15997 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
15999 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
16000 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
16003 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16004 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
16005 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
16006 from "cypherpunks".
16008 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
16009 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
16010 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16011 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
16012 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
16013 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16015 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
16016 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
16017 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16019 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
16020 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
16021 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
16023 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
16024 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
16025 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16026 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
16027 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16028 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
16029 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
16030 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
16031 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16033 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16034 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
16035 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
16036 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
16037 haven't supported that in ages.
16038 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
16039 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
16040 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
16041 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
16044 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
16045 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
16046 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
16047 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
16048 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
16049 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
16051 o Removed features:
16052 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
16053 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
16054 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
16055 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
16056 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
16057 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
16058 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
16059 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
16060 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
16061 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
16062 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
16063 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
16064 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
16065 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
16066 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
16067 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
16068 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
16071 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
16072 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
16073 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
16074 Closes ticket 15817.
16075 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
16076 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
16078 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
16079 default as a part of "make check".
16080 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
16081 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
16082 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
16083 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
16087 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
16088 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
16089 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
16090 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
16091 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
16092 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
16094 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
16095 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
16096 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
16097 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
16098 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
16099 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
16100 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
16101 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
16104 o Major bugfixes (stability):
16105 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
16106 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
16107 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
16108 by "cypherpunks_backup".
16109 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
16110 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
16111 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
16114 o Minor features (geoip):
16115 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16116 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16118 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
16119 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
16120 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
16121 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
16122 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
16123 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
16125 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16126 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
16127 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
16128 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
16131 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
16132 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
16133 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
16134 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
16135 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
16137 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
16138 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
16139 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
16140 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
16141 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
16144 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
16145 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
16146 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
16147 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
16148 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
16149 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
16150 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
16152 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16153 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
16154 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
16155 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
16157 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16158 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
16159 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
16160 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
16161 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
16162 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
16165 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
16166 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
16167 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
16170 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
16171 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
16172 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
16173 authorities should upgrade.
16175 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16176 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
16177 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
16178 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
16181 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16182 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16183 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16186 o Minor features (geoip):
16187 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16188 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16192 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
16193 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
16194 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
16195 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
16196 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
16197 the hidden services subsystem.
16199 o New system requirements:
16200 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
16201 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
16204 o Major features (controller):
16205 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
16206 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
16208 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
16209 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
16210 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
16211 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
16212 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
16213 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
16214 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
16216 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16217 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
16218 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
16219 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
16222 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
16223 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
16224 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
16225 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
16226 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
16228 o Minor features (command-line interface):
16229 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
16230 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16231 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
16232 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
16234 o Minor features (controller):
16235 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
16236 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
16237 present. Implements ticket 14840.
16238 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
16239 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
16240 Closes ticket 14845.
16241 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
16242 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
16243 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
16245 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
16246 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
16247 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
16248 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
16250 o Minor features (geoip):
16251 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16252 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16255 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
16256 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
16257 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
16258 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
16259 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
16260 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
16261 Closes ticket 15745.
16263 o Minor features (logging):
16264 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
16265 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
16268 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
16269 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
16270 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
16271 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
16273 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
16274 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
16275 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
16276 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
16277 Resolves ticket 15435.
16279 o Minor features (testing):
16280 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
16281 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
16282 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
16283 files. Closes ticket 15180.
16284 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
16285 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
16286 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
16287 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
16288 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
16289 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
16290 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
16291 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
16292 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
16293 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
16294 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
16295 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
16297 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16298 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
16299 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
16302 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
16303 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
16304 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
16306 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
16307 stderr, not stdout.
16309 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
16310 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
16311 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
16312 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
16313 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
16314 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
16315 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
16316 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16318 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16319 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
16320 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
16322 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
16323 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
16324 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
16327 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16328 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16329 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16331 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
16332 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16334 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
16335 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
16336 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
16337 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
16340 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
16341 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
16342 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
16343 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
16344 recent enough Clang.
16346 o Minor bugfixes (network):
16347 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
16348 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
16349 unsuitable for public communications.
16351 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16352 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
16353 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
16354 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
16355 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
16356 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
16358 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
16359 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
16360 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
16361 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
16362 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
16363 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
16364 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
16365 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
16367 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16368 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
16369 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
16371 - Set the severity correctly when testing
16372 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
16373 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
16374 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
16375 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
16377 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16378 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
16379 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
16381 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
16382 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
16383 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
16384 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
16385 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
16388 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
16389 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
16391 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
16392 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16393 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
16394 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
16395 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
16398 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
16399 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
16400 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
16401 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
16402 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
16403 Closes ticket 14922.
16405 o Removed features:
16406 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
16407 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
16408 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
16409 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
16410 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
16411 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
16412 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
16413 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
16414 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
16415 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
16416 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
16419 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
16420 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
16421 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
16422 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
16423 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
16425 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
16426 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
16428 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
16429 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
16430 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
16431 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
16432 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
16433 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16434 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
16436 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
16437 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
16438 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
16439 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
16440 Resolves ticket 15515.
16443 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
16444 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
16445 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
16446 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
16447 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
16449 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
16450 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
16452 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
16453 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
16454 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
16455 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
16456 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
16457 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16458 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
16460 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
16461 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
16462 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
16463 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
16464 Resolves ticket 15515.
16467 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
16468 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
16469 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
16470 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
16471 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
16473 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
16474 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
16476 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
16477 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
16478 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
16479 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
16480 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
16481 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16482 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
16484 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
16485 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
16486 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
16487 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
16488 Resolves ticket 15515.
16489 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
16490 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
16491 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
16495 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
16496 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
16498 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
16499 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
16500 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
16501 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
16502 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
16503 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
16504 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
16505 bugs should be addressed.
16507 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16508 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
16509 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
16510 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16512 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
16513 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
16514 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
16516 o Major bugfixes (client):
16517 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
16518 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
16521 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
16522 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
16523 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
16524 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
16525 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
16526 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16528 o Major bugfixes (portability):
16529 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
16530 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
16533 o Minor features (heartbeat):
16534 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
16535 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
16536 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
16537 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
16539 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16540 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
16541 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
16544 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
16545 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
16547 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
16548 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
16549 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
16551 o Directory authority changes:
16552 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16553 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16554 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16555 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16556 closes ticket 14487.
16558 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
16559 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
16560 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
16563 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
16564 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16565 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
16566 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16567 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
16568 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
16569 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
16570 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16572 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
16573 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
16574 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
16575 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16577 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16578 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
16579 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
16580 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
16582 o Minor features (controller):
16583 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
16584 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
16585 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
16587 o Minor features (geoip):
16588 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16589 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16592 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
16593 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
16594 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
16595 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16596 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
16597 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16599 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16600 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
16601 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
16602 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
16604 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16605 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
16606 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
16607 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
16608 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
16609 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
16610 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
16611 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16613 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16614 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
16615 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16617 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
16618 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
16619 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
16620 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
16621 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
16625 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
16626 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
16627 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
16630 o Directory authority changes:
16631 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16632 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16633 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16634 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16635 closes ticket 14487.
16637 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
16638 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
16639 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
16640 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16642 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
16643 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16644 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
16645 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16646 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
16647 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
16648 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
16649 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16651 o Minor features (geoip):
16652 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16653 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16656 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
16657 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
16658 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
16659 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
16660 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
16662 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
16663 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
16664 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
16667 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
16668 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
16669 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
16670 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
16671 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16672 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
16673 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
16674 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16676 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
16677 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
16678 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
16681 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16682 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
16683 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
16685 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
16686 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16687 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
16688 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
16689 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
16691 o Minor features (controller):
16692 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
16693 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
16694 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
16696 o Minor features (geoip):
16697 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16698 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16701 o Minor features (logs):
16702 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
16705 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
16706 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
16707 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
16708 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16709 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
16710 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
16711 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
16712 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
16713 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
16715 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16716 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
16718 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
16721 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16722 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
16723 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
16725 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
16726 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
16727 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
16728 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
16729 from "cypherpunks".
16730 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
16731 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
16734 o Directory authority IP change:
16735 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16736 closes ticket 14487.
16739 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
16740 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
16741 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
16745 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
16746 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
16747 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
16748 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
16749 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
16750 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
16752 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
16753 the next version will be a release candidate.
16755 o Deprecated versions:
16756 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
16757 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
16759 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
16760 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
16761 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
16762 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
16763 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
16764 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
16766 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
16767 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
16768 Implements ticket 11485.
16770 o Major features (changed defaults):
16771 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
16772 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
16773 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
16774 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
16775 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
16776 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
16778 o Major features (directory system):
16779 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
16780 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
16781 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
16782 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
16783 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
16784 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
16785 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
16786 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
16787 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
16788 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
16789 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
16790 227. Closes ticket 10395.
16792 o Major features (guards):
16793 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
16794 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
16795 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
16796 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
16797 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
16799 o Major features (performance):
16800 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
16801 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
16802 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
16803 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
16804 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
16805 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
16806 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
16807 Implements ticket 9682.
16809 o Major features (relay):
16810 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
16811 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
16812 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
16814 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
16815 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
16816 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
16817 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
16819 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
16820 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
16821 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
16822 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
16823 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
16824 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
16825 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
16827 o Minor features (build):
16828 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
16829 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
16830 Resolves ticket 13037.
16832 o Minor features (controller):
16833 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
16834 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
16836 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
16837 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
16838 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
16839 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
16840 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
16841 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
16843 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
16844 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
16845 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
16846 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
16847 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
16848 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
16849 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
16850 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
16851 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
16852 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
16854 o Minor features (geoip):
16855 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
16856 GeoLite2 Country database.
16858 o Minor features (guard nodes):
16859 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
16860 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
16861 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
16863 o Minor features (hidden service):
16864 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
16865 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
16866 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
16867 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
16868 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
16869 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
16870 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
16871 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
16873 o Minor features (interface):
16874 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
16875 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
16876 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
16878 o Minor features (logging):
16879 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
16880 Resolves ticket 6852.
16881 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
16882 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
16883 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
16885 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
16886 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
16888 o Minor features (stability):
16889 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
16890 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
16893 o Minor features (systemd):
16894 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
16895 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
16897 o Minor features (testing networks):
16898 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
16899 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
16900 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
16901 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
16902 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
16903 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
16905 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
16906 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
16907 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
16908 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
16909 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
16911 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
16912 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
16913 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
16914 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
16915 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
16917 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
16918 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
16919 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
16920 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
16921 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
16922 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
16923 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
16924 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16926 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
16927 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
16928 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
16929 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16930 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
16931 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16932 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
16933 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
16935 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
16936 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
16937 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
16940 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
16941 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
16942 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
16943 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
16944 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
16946 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
16947 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
16948 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
16949 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
16950 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16952 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16953 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
16954 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
16955 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
16956 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
16957 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
16958 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
16959 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
16960 Addresses ticket 14188.
16961 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
16962 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
16963 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
16964 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
16965 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
16966 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
16967 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
16968 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
16969 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16971 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16972 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
16973 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
16974 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
16975 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
16976 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16977 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
16978 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16980 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16981 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
16982 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
16983 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
16984 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
16985 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
16986 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
16987 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16988 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
16989 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16990 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
16991 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
16992 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16994 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
16995 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
16996 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
16997 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
16998 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
16999 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
17000 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
17001 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
17002 state, and key files.
17003 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
17004 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
17007 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17008 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
17009 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
17010 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
17011 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17012 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
17013 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
17014 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17015 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
17016 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
17017 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17019 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17020 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
17021 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17022 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
17024 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
17025 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17027 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
17028 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
17029 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
17030 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
17031 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
17032 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17034 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
17035 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
17036 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
17037 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17038 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
17039 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
17040 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17041 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
17042 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
17043 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17045 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17046 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
17047 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
17049 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
17050 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
17052 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
17053 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
17054 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
17055 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
17056 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17058 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
17059 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
17060 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
17061 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
17064 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
17065 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
17066 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
17069 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17070 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
17071 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17073 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
17074 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
17075 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
17076 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
17077 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
17078 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
17079 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
17081 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
17082 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
17085 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
17086 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
17087 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
17089 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
17090 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
17091 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
17094 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17095 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
17096 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
17097 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
17098 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
17099 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
17100 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
17101 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
17102 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
17104 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
17105 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
17107 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
17111 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
17112 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
17113 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
17114 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
17115 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
17116 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
17118 o Downgraded warnings:
17119 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
17120 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
17122 o Removed features:
17123 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
17124 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
17125 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
17126 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
17127 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
17131 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
17132 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17133 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
17134 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
17135 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
17136 (existing behavior).
17137 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
17138 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
17139 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
17140 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
17141 Closes ticket 14107.
17142 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
17143 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17144 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
17145 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
17147 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
17148 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
17149 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17152 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
17153 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
17154 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
17155 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
17156 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
17157 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
17159 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
17160 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
17161 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
17162 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
17164 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
17165 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
17166 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
17167 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
17168 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
17169 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
17171 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
17172 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
17173 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
17174 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
17175 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
17176 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
17177 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
17180 o Major features (hidden services):
17181 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
17182 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
17183 Closes ticket 13667.
17184 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
17185 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
17186 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
17187 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
17188 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
17189 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
17190 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
17191 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
17192 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
17193 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
17194 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
17196 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
17197 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
17198 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
17199 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
17200 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
17201 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
17204 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17205 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
17206 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
17207 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
17208 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
17209 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
17211 o Directory authority changes:
17212 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17213 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17214 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17216 o Major removed features:
17217 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
17218 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
17219 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
17220 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
17222 o Minor features (client):
17223 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
17224 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
17225 Resolves ticket 13315.
17227 o Minor features (controller):
17228 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
17229 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
17232 o Minor features (geoip):
17233 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17236 o Minor features (hidden services):
17237 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
17238 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
17239 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
17240 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
17241 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
17242 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
17244 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
17245 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
17246 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
17248 o Minor features (systemd):
17249 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
17250 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17251 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
17252 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17254 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
17255 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
17256 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
17257 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
17258 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
17261 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
17262 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
17263 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
17264 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
17265 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
17267 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
17268 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
17269 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
17272 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
17273 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
17274 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
17275 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
17276 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
17278 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
17279 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
17280 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17282 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17283 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
17284 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
17285 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
17286 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
17288 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
17289 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
17292 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17293 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
17294 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
17295 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
17296 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
17297 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
17298 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
17299 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
17300 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17301 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
17302 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
17303 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
17304 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
17305 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
17308 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17309 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
17310 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
17311 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
17312 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
17313 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
17315 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17316 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
17317 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
17318 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
17320 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
17321 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17323 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
17324 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
17325 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
17326 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
17329 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
17330 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
17331 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
17332 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
17333 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
17334 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
17336 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
17337 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
17338 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
17339 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
17340 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17341 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
17342 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
17343 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
17344 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
17345 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
17346 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
17347 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
17348 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
17349 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
17350 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
17351 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
17352 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
17353 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
17354 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
17355 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17356 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
17357 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
17358 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
17359 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
17360 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
17361 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
17362 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
17363 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17364 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
17365 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
17366 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
17367 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
17369 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
17370 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
17371 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
17372 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
17373 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17375 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17376 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
17377 with a function instead.
17378 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
17379 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
17380 Closes ticket 13172.
17381 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
17382 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
17383 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
17384 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
17385 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
17386 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
17387 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
17388 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
17389 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
17390 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
17391 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
17392 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
17396 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
17397 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
17398 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
17399 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
17400 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
17401 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
17402 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
17403 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
17404 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
17405 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
17406 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
17407 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
17410 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
17411 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
17412 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
17413 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
17414 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
17415 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
17417 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
17421 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
17422 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
17423 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
17424 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
17425 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
17426 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
17427 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
17428 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
17429 of introducing infinite download loops.
17431 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
17432 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
17433 with 0.2.5.x for now.
17435 o New compiler and system requirements:
17436 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
17437 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
17438 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
17439 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
17441 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
17442 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
17443 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
17444 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
17445 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
17446 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
17447 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
17448 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
17449 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
17451 o Removed platform support:
17452 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
17453 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
17454 Closes ticket 11446.
17456 o Major features (bridges):
17457 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
17458 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
17459 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
17462 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
17463 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
17464 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
17465 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
17468 o Major features (directory system):
17469 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
17470 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
17471 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
17472 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
17474 o Major features (sample torrc):
17475 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
17476 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
17477 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
17478 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
17479 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
17480 generally useful "sample torrc".
17482 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
17483 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
17484 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17486 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
17487 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
17488 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
17489 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
17490 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17492 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
17493 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
17494 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
17495 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
17497 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
17498 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
17499 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
17500 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
17501 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
17502 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
17505 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
17506 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
17507 document. Implements feature 10427.
17509 o Minor features (client):
17510 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
17511 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
17512 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
17513 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
17515 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17516 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
17517 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
17518 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
17519 argument more than once.
17520 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
17521 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
17522 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
17523 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
17524 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
17525 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
17527 o Minor features (logging):
17528 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
17529 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
17530 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
17531 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
17532 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
17533 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
17534 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
17535 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
17536 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
17538 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
17539 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
17540 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
17541 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
17543 o Minor features (relay):
17544 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
17545 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
17546 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
17548 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
17549 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
17550 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
17551 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
17553 o Minor features (testing networks):
17554 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
17555 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
17556 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
17557 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
17558 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
17561 o Minor features (validation):
17562 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
17563 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
17564 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
17565 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
17566 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
17567 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
17568 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
17569 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
17571 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
17572 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
17573 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
17574 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17576 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
17577 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
17578 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
17579 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17581 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
17582 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
17583 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
17585 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
17586 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
17587 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
17589 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
17590 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17591 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
17592 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
17593 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17594 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
17595 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17597 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17598 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
17599 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
17600 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
17601 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
17602 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17603 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
17604 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
17605 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
17607 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
17608 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
17609 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
17610 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
17611 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
17613 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
17614 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
17615 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
17617 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17618 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
17619 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
17620 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
17621 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
17623 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
17624 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
17625 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
17626 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17627 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
17628 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
17629 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17630 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
17631 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
17632 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
17633 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
17636 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
17637 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
17638 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
17639 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
17640 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17642 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17643 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
17644 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
17645 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
17646 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
17649 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
17650 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
17651 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17652 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
17653 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
17654 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
17656 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17657 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
17658 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
17659 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17661 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
17662 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
17663 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
17664 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17666 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
17667 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
17668 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
17669 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
17672 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
17673 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
17674 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17677 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
17678 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17679 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
17680 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
17681 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
17684 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17685 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
17686 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
17688 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
17689 Resolves ticket 12205.
17690 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
17691 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
17692 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
17693 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
17695 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
17696 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
17697 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
17699 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
17700 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
17702 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
17703 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
17704 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
17705 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
17706 or_options_t structure.
17709 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
17710 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
17711 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
17712 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
17715 o Removed features:
17716 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
17717 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
17718 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
17719 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
17720 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
17721 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
17722 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
17723 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
17724 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
17726 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
17727 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
17729 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
17730 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
17731 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
17732 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
17733 anymore, and ignore it.
17736 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
17737 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
17738 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
17739 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
17740 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
17741 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
17742 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
17743 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
17744 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
17745 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
17746 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
17747 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
17749 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
17750 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
17751 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
17753 o Distribution (systemd):
17754 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
17755 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
17756 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
17757 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
17758 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
17760 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
17761 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
17763 o Removed features (directory authorities):
17764 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
17765 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
17766 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
17767 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
17768 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
17769 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
17770 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
17771 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
17772 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
17774 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
17775 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
17776 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
17777 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
17780 o Testing (test-network.sh):
17781 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
17782 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
17784 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
17786 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
17787 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
17788 Partially implements ticket 13161.
17791 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
17792 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
17794 It adds several new security features, including improved
17795 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
17796 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
17797 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
17798 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
17799 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
17800 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
17801 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
17802 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
17803 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
17804 and features mentioned below.
17806 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
17807 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
17809 o Deprecated versions:
17810 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
17811 attention for some while.
17814 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
17815 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
17816 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
17817 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
17818 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
17819 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
17821 o Major security fixes:
17822 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
17823 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
17824 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
17826 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
17827 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
17828 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
17829 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
17832 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
17833 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
17834 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
17835 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
17837 o Compilation fixes:
17838 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
17839 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
17840 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
17842 o Downgraded warnings:
17843 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
17844 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
17847 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
17848 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
17849 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
17850 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
17851 (which does affect Tor).
17853 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
17854 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
17855 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
17856 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
17858 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
17859 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
17860 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
17861 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
17864 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
17865 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
17866 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
17867 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
17868 the directory authorities.
17871 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
17872 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
17873 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
17874 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
17875 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
17876 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
17877 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
17878 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
17879 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
17880 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
17881 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
17882 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17884 o Directory authority changes:
17885 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
17888 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
17889 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
17890 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
17891 the directory authorities.
17894 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
17895 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
17896 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
17897 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
17898 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
17899 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
17900 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
17901 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
17902 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
17903 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
17904 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
17905 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17907 o Directory authority changes:
17908 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
17910 o Minor features (geoip):
17911 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17915 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
17916 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
17917 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
17918 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
17919 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
17921 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
17922 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
17923 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
17924 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
17925 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
17926 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
17927 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17928 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
17929 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
17930 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
17931 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
17932 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
17933 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
17934 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17935 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
17936 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
17938 o Major bugfixes (relay):
17939 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
17940 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17941 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17942 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
17943 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
17944 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
17945 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17947 o Minor features (bridge):
17948 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
17949 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
17951 o Minor features (geoip):
17952 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
17955 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17956 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
17957 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
17958 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
17959 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
17960 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
17961 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
17962 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
17963 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
17964 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
17965 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
17966 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
17967 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
17968 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
17969 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
17971 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
17972 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
17973 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
17974 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
17975 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
17977 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17978 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
17979 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17980 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
17981 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
17984 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17985 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
17986 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17987 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
17988 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17989 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
17990 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
17991 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17992 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
17993 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
17994 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
17997 o Distribution (systemd):
17998 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
17999 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
18000 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
18001 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
18002 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
18003 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
18004 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
18005 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
18006 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
18010 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
18011 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
18013 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
18017 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
18018 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
18019 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
18020 us closer to a release candidate.
18022 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
18023 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
18024 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
18025 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
18026 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
18028 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
18029 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
18030 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
18031 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
18032 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
18033 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
18034 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
18035 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
18036 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
18040 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
18041 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
18042 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
18043 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
18044 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
18045 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
18046 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
18047 to build circuits".
18050 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
18051 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
18052 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
18053 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
18054 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
18055 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
18056 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
18057 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18059 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
18061 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
18062 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
18063 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
18064 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
18065 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
18066 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
18067 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
18068 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
18069 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
18070 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18073 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
18074 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
18075 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
18076 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
18078 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
18079 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
18080 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
18083 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
18084 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
18085 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
18086 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
18089 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
18090 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
18091 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
18092 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
18093 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
18094 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
18095 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
18096 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
18097 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
18098 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
18101 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
18102 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
18103 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
18104 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
18105 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
18106 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
18107 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
18108 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
18112 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
18113 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
18114 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
18115 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
18116 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
18117 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
18118 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
18119 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
18120 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18121 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
18122 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
18123 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
18124 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
18127 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18131 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
18132 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
18133 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
18134 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
18135 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
18136 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
18139 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
18140 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
18141 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
18142 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
18143 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
18144 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
18145 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
18146 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
18147 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
18148 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
18149 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
18150 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
18151 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18153 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
18154 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
18155 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
18156 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
18159 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
18160 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
18161 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
18163 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
18164 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
18165 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
18166 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
18167 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
18168 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
18169 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
18170 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
18171 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
18172 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
18173 router's identity is not forgeable.
18175 o Major bugfixes (relay):
18176 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
18177 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
18178 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
18179 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
18180 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
18181 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
18182 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
18183 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
18184 bugfix on every version of Tor.
18186 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
18187 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
18188 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
18189 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
18192 o Minor features (diagnostic):
18193 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
18194 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
18195 help diagnose bug 7164.
18196 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
18197 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
18198 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
18199 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
18200 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
18202 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
18203 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
18204 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
18205 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
18206 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
18207 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
18208 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
18210 o Minor features (security, memory management):
18211 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
18212 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
18213 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
18214 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
18215 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
18216 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
18218 o Minor features (security):
18219 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
18220 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
18221 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
18222 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
18224 o Minor features (build):
18225 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
18226 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
18227 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
18229 o Minor features (other):
18230 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18233 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
18234 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
18235 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
18236 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
18237 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18239 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
18240 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
18241 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
18242 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
18243 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
18244 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
18245 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
18246 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
18247 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
18248 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
18249 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
18250 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
18252 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18253 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
18254 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18255 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
18256 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
18257 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
18258 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
18259 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
18260 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
18261 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
18262 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18263 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
18264 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
18265 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
18266 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
18267 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
18268 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
18269 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
18272 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
18273 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
18274 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
18275 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
18276 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
18277 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
18278 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18280 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
18281 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
18282 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18283 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
18284 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18285 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
18286 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18287 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
18288 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
18290 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
18291 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
18293 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
18294 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
18296 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
18297 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
18298 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18299 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
18300 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
18301 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18302 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
18303 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
18304 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
18306 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
18307 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
18308 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
18309 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
18310 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
18311 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18312 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
18313 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
18314 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18315 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
18316 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
18317 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18318 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
18319 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
18320 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
18321 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
18322 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
18323 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18325 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18326 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
18327 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
18328 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
18329 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
18330 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18331 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
18332 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
18333 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
18336 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18337 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
18338 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
18339 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
18340 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18342 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18343 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
18344 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
18345 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
18347 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
18348 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
18349 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
18350 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18351 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
18352 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
18353 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
18354 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
18356 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
18357 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
18358 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
18359 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
18362 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
18363 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
18364 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
18365 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
18366 versions. Found by "skruffy".
18367 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
18368 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
18369 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
18372 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
18373 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
18374 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
18375 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
18378 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
18379 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
18380 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
18381 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
18383 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
18384 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
18385 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
18387 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
18388 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
18389 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
18391 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18392 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
18393 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18394 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
18395 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
18399 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
18400 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
18401 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
18402 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
18405 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
18406 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
18407 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
18408 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
18410 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
18411 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
18413 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
18414 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
18415 caches don't get confused.
18418 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
18419 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
18420 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
18421 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
18422 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
18425 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
18426 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
18427 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
18428 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
18429 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
18430 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
18434 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
18435 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
18436 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
18437 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
18438 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
18439 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
18440 of RAM, and several others.
18442 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18443 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
18444 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
18445 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
18446 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
18448 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
18449 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
18450 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
18451 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
18454 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18455 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
18456 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
18457 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
18458 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
18459 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
18460 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
18461 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
18462 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
18463 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
18464 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
18465 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
18466 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
18467 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
18468 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
18469 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
18470 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
18471 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
18472 Resolves ticket 11438.
18474 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
18475 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
18476 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
18477 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
18478 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
18479 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18481 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18482 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
18483 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
18485 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18486 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
18487 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18489 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18490 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
18491 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
18492 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18494 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18495 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
18496 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
18498 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18499 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
18500 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
18503 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
18504 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
18505 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
18506 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
18509 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18510 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
18511 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
18512 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
18514 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18515 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
18516 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
18517 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
18519 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18520 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
18521 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
18525 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
18526 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
18527 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
18528 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
18529 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
18530 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
18531 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
18532 the Linux sandbox code.
18534 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
18535 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
18536 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
18538 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
18539 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
18541 o Major features (security):
18542 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
18543 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
18544 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
18545 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
18546 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
18547 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
18548 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
18549 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
18551 o Major features (relay performance):
18552 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
18553 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
18554 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
18555 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
18556 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
18557 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
18558 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
18559 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
18560 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
18561 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
18563 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
18564 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
18565 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
18566 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
18567 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
18568 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
18569 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
18571 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
18572 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
18574 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
18575 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
18576 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
18577 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
18578 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
18579 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
18580 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
18581 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
18582 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
18583 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
18584 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
18585 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
18586 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
18587 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
18588 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
18589 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
18590 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
18591 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
18592 Resolves ticket 11438.
18594 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
18595 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
18596 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
18597 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18599 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
18600 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
18601 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
18602 10267; patch from "yurivict".
18603 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
18604 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
18605 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
18606 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
18607 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
18608 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
18610 o Minor features (security):
18611 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
18612 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
18613 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
18614 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
18617 o Minor features (log verbosity):
18618 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
18619 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
18620 Resolves ticket 5286.
18621 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
18622 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
18623 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
18624 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
18625 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
18626 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
18627 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
18628 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
18629 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
18631 o Minor features (relay):
18632 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
18633 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
18634 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
18636 o Minor features (controller):
18637 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
18638 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
18640 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
18641 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
18642 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
18644 o Minor features (bridge client):
18645 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
18646 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
18647 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
18649 o Minor features (diagnostic):
18650 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
18651 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
18652 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
18653 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
18654 still referenced by a live node_t object.
18656 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
18657 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
18658 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
18659 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
18661 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
18662 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
18663 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
18664 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
18667 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
18668 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
18669 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18671 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
18672 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
18673 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
18674 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18675 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
18676 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
18677 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18679 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
18680 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
18681 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
18682 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18683 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
18684 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
18685 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18686 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
18687 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
18688 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
18689 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18690 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
18691 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
18694 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
18695 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
18696 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
18697 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
18698 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
18700 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
18701 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
18702 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
18705 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18706 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
18707 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
18709 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
18710 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
18711 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18713 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18714 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
18715 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
18716 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
18718 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
18719 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
18720 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18721 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
18722 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
18724 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
18725 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
18726 early. Fixes bug 10081.
18728 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
18729 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
18730 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
18731 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
18732 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18733 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
18734 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
18735 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
18737 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
18738 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
18739 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
18740 should never have affected anyone in practice.
18742 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18743 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
18744 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18746 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
18747 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
18748 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
18749 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
18750 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
18751 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
18752 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
18753 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
18754 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
18755 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
18756 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
18757 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
18758 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
18759 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
18761 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
18762 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
18763 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
18764 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
18765 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
18766 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
18767 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
18768 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
18772 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
18773 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
18774 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
18775 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18776 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
18777 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18778 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
18779 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
18781 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
18783 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18784 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
18785 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
18786 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
18787 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
18790 o Deprecated versions:
18791 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
18792 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
18793 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
18794 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
18797 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
18798 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
18799 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
18800 Patch from Dana Koch.
18803 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
18804 Resolves ticket 11070.
18807 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
18808 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
18809 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
18810 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
18811 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
18814 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
18815 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
18817 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
18818 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
18819 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
18820 streams attached to each circuit.
18822 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
18823 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
18824 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
18825 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
18826 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
18827 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
18828 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
18829 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
18830 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
18831 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
18832 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
18833 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
18834 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
18836 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
18837 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
18838 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
18840 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
18841 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
18842 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
18843 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
18844 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
18845 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
18846 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
18847 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
18848 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
18850 o Minor features (other):
18851 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
18852 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
18853 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
18854 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
18855 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
18856 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
18857 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
18858 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
18859 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18862 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
18863 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
18864 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
18865 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
18866 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
18867 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
18868 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
18869 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
18871 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18872 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
18873 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
18874 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
18875 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18876 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
18877 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
18878 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
18880 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
18881 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
18882 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
18883 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
18884 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
18885 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18886 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
18887 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
18888 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18889 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
18890 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
18891 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18893 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
18894 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
18895 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18896 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
18897 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
18898 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
18899 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
18900 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
18901 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18902 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
18903 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
18904 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
18905 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
18906 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
18908 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
18909 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
18911 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
18912 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
18913 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
18914 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
18915 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
18916 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
18917 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18918 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
18919 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
18920 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
18921 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
18922 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18923 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
18924 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
18926 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18927 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
18928 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
18929 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
18932 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
18933 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
18934 the rest of bug 10841.
18937 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
18938 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
18939 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
18940 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
18941 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
18942 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
18943 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
18944 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
18945 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
18946 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
18947 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
18948 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18949 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
18950 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
18951 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
18953 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18954 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
18955 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
18957 o Test infrastructure:
18958 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
18959 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
18960 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
18961 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
18964 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
18965 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
18966 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
18967 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
18969 o Major features (client security):
18970 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
18971 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
18972 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
18973 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
18974 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
18975 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
18978 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
18979 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
18980 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
18981 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
18983 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18984 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
18985 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
18986 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
18987 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
18990 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
18991 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
18993 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
18994 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
18995 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
18996 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
18997 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
18998 GeoLite2 Country database.
19001 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
19002 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
19003 bugfix on every released Tor.
19004 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
19005 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
19006 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
19007 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19008 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
19009 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
19010 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
19011 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
19012 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
19013 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19014 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
19015 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
19016 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19017 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
19018 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19020 o Documentation fixes:
19021 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
19022 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19025 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
19026 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
19027 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
19028 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
19029 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
19030 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
19031 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
19032 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
19034 o Major features (client security):
19035 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
19036 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
19037 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
19038 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
19039 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
19040 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
19041 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
19042 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
19043 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
19044 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
19045 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
19046 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
19048 o Major features (bridges):
19049 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
19050 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
19051 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
19052 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
19053 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
19054 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
19055 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
19056 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
19059 o Major features (other):
19060 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
19061 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
19062 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
19063 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
19064 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
19065 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
19066 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
19067 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
19068 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
19069 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
19070 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
19071 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
19074 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
19075 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
19076 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19077 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
19078 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
19079 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
19080 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19082 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
19083 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
19084 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
19085 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
19086 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
19087 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
19088 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
19089 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
19090 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
19092 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
19093 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19094 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
19095 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
19096 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
19097 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
19099 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
19100 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
19101 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
19102 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
19103 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
19104 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
19107 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
19108 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
19109 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
19110 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
19111 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
19112 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
19113 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
19115 o Minor features (security):
19116 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
19117 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
19120 o Minor features (config options and command line):
19121 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
19122 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
19123 Implements ticket 10060.
19124 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
19125 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
19126 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
19128 o Minor features (controller):
19129 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
19130 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
19131 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
19132 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
19133 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
19136 o Minor features (build):
19137 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
19138 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
19139 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
19140 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
19141 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
19142 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
19143 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
19145 o Minor features (testing):
19146 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
19147 the unit test scripts.
19148 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
19149 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
19150 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
19151 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
19153 o Minor features (log messages):
19154 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
19155 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
19156 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
19157 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
19158 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
19159 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
19160 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
19161 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
19162 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
19163 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19165 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
19166 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
19167 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
19168 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
19169 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
19170 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
19171 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
19172 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
19173 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
19174 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19176 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
19177 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
19178 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
19179 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
19182 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19183 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
19184 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
19185 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
19186 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19188 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19189 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
19190 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
19191 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
19192 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
19193 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
19194 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
19196 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
19197 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
19198 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
19199 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
19200 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
19201 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
19202 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19203 Reported by "mr-4".
19204 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
19205 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
19206 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
19207 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19209 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
19210 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
19211 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
19212 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
19213 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
19214 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
19215 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
19216 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
19217 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
19218 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
19219 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19221 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19222 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
19223 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
19224 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
19225 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
19226 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
19227 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
19228 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
19229 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
19230 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
19232 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
19233 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
19234 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
19235 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
19238 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19239 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
19240 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
19241 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
19242 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
19243 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
19245 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
19246 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19248 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19249 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
19250 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
19251 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19253 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19254 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
19255 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
19256 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19257 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
19258 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
19259 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
19260 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19261 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
19262 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
19263 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
19264 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
19265 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
19266 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
19268 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
19269 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
19270 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19271 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
19272 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
19273 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
19275 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
19276 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
19277 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19278 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
19279 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
19280 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
19281 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
19282 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
19283 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
19284 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19285 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
19286 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19288 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
19289 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
19290 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
19291 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
19292 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
19293 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19294 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
19295 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
19296 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19297 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
19298 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
19299 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
19300 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
19301 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
19302 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
19303 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
19306 o Removed code and features:
19307 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
19308 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
19309 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
19310 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
19311 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
19312 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
19314 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
19315 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
19316 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
19317 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
19318 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
19319 part of a fix for bug 10841.
19321 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19322 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
19323 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
19324 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
19325 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
19326 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
19327 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
19328 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
19329 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
19330 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
19331 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
19334 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
19335 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
19336 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
19337 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
19338 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19340 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
19341 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
19342 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
19343 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
19344 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
19345 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
19346 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
19349 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
19350 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
19351 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
19354 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
19355 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
19356 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
19357 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
19358 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
19359 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
19360 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
19362 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
19363 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
19366 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
19367 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
19368 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
19369 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
19370 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
19371 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
19372 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
19373 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
19375 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
19376 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19377 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
19378 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
19379 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
19380 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
19383 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
19384 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19385 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
19386 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
19387 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
19390 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
19391 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
19392 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
19393 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
19394 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
19395 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
19396 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
19397 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
19399 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
19400 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
19401 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
19402 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
19403 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
19404 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
19405 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
19406 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
19407 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
19408 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
19409 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
19410 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
19411 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
19412 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
19413 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
19414 security, and privacy fixes.
19417 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
19418 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
19419 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
19420 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
19423 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
19424 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
19425 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
19426 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
19427 them to solve bug 6033.)
19430 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
19431 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
19432 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
19433 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
19434 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
19435 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19436 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
19437 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
19439 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
19440 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
19441 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
19442 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19444 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
19445 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
19446 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19447 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
19448 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
19449 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
19450 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
19451 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
19452 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
19453 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19454 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
19455 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19457 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
19458 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
19459 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
19460 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
19461 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
19462 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19463 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
19464 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
19465 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19466 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
19467 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
19468 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
19469 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
19470 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
19471 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
19472 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
19475 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
19476 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
19477 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
19478 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
19479 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
19480 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
19481 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
19482 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
19483 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
19484 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
19485 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
19486 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
19487 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
19488 Implements part of proposal 222.
19490 o Minor features (other):
19491 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
19492 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
19493 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
19494 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
19495 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
19496 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
19497 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
19498 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
19499 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19501 o Documentation fixes:
19502 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
19503 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
19504 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
19505 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
19506 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
19507 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
19510 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
19511 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
19512 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
19513 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
19514 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
19515 release of the new branch.
19517 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
19518 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
19519 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
19521 o Major features (security):
19522 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
19523 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
19524 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
19525 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
19526 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
19527 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
19528 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
19529 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
19530 Google Summer of Code.
19531 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
19532 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
19533 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
19534 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
19535 them to solve bug 6033.)
19537 o Major features (other):
19538 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
19539 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
19540 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
19541 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
19542 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
19544 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
19545 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
19546 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
19547 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
19548 Implements ticket 8530.
19549 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
19550 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
19553 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
19554 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
19555 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
19556 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
19557 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
19558 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19559 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
19560 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
19561 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19562 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
19563 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
19564 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
19565 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19568 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
19569 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
19570 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
19571 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
19572 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
19573 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
19574 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
19575 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
19576 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
19577 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
19581 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
19582 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
19583 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
19584 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
19585 invoking the other functions it calls.
19586 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
19587 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
19588 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
19589 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
19591 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
19592 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
19593 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
19594 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
19595 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
19596 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
19597 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
19598 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
19599 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
19600 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
19601 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
19602 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
19603 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
19604 Implements part of proposal 222.
19606 o Minor features (config options):
19607 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
19608 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
19609 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
19610 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
19611 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
19612 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
19613 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
19614 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
19615 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
19616 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
19617 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
19618 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
19619 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
19620 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
19621 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
19622 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
19623 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
19626 o Minor features (build):
19627 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
19628 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
19629 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
19630 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
19631 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
19634 o Minor features (other):
19635 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
19636 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
19637 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
19638 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
19639 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19640 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
19641 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
19642 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
19643 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
19644 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
19645 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
19646 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
19647 Closes ticket 8109.
19648 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19651 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
19652 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
19653 bugfix on every released Tor.
19654 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
19655 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
19656 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
19657 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
19658 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
19659 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
19661 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
19662 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
19663 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
19664 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19665 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
19666 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
19667 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
19668 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19670 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
19671 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
19672 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
19673 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
19674 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
19676 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
19677 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19679 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
19680 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
19681 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
19683 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
19684 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
19685 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
19686 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
19687 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19689 o Minor code improvements:
19690 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
19691 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
19693 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
19694 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
19695 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
19696 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
19697 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19699 o Removed features:
19700 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
19701 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
19702 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
19703 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
19705 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19706 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
19707 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
19708 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19709 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
19710 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
19711 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
19712 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
19713 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
19714 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
19715 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19716 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
19717 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
19718 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
19719 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
19720 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
19723 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
19724 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
19725 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
19726 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
19727 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
19728 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
19729 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
19732 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
19733 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
19734 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
19735 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
19736 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
19737 Implements ticket 9574.
19740 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
19741 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
19742 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19743 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
19744 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
19745 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
19746 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
19747 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
19748 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19749 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
19750 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
19751 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
19755 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
19756 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
19757 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
19758 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
19760 o Minor fixes (config options):
19761 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
19762 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
19763 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
19764 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
19765 message is logged at notice, not at info.
19766 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
19767 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
19768 or we just won't work.)
19771 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
19772 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
19773 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
19774 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19777 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
19778 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
19779 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
19782 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
19783 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
19784 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19785 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
19786 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
19787 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
19788 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
19790 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
19791 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19792 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
19793 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
19796 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
19797 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
19798 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
19799 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
19800 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
19801 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
19802 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
19803 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
19804 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
19805 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
19806 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19807 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
19808 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
19811 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19814 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
19815 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
19816 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
19817 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
19820 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
19821 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
19822 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19825 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
19826 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
19827 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
19830 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
19831 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
19832 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19835 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
19836 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
19837 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
19838 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
19839 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
19840 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
19842 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
19843 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
19844 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
19845 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
19846 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
19847 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19849 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
19850 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
19851 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19854 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
19855 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
19856 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
19857 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
19858 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
19860 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
19861 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
19862 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
19863 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
19864 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
19865 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
19866 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
19868 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
19869 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
19870 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
19872 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
19873 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
19877 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
19878 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
19879 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
19881 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
19882 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
19883 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
19884 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
19885 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
19886 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
19888 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
19889 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
19890 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
19891 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
19892 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
19893 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
19894 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
19897 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
19898 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
19899 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
19900 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
19901 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
19902 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
19903 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19904 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
19905 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19906 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
19907 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
19908 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19909 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
19910 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
19912 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
19913 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
19914 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
19915 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
19918 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19919 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
19920 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
19921 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
19922 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
19923 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
19925 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
19926 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
19930 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
19931 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
19932 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
19933 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
19934 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
19935 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
19936 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19938 o Removed documentation:
19939 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
19940 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
19942 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19943 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
19944 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
19945 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
19948 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
19949 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
19950 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
19951 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
19952 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
19953 variety of other issues.
19956 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
19957 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
19958 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
19959 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
19960 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
19961 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19962 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
19963 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
19965 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
19966 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
19967 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
19969 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
19970 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
19971 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
19972 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19973 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
19974 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
19975 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19977 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
19978 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
19979 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
19980 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
19981 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
19982 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
19983 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
19984 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19985 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
19986 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
19987 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
19988 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
19989 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19990 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
19991 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
19992 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
19993 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
19994 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
19995 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
19996 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
19997 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19999 o Major bugfixes (other):
20000 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
20001 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
20002 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
20003 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20006 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
20007 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
20008 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
20009 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
20011 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
20012 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
20014 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20016 o Minor features (build):
20017 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
20018 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
20020 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
20021 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
20023 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
20024 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
20025 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
20028 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20029 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
20030 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20031 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20032 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
20033 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
20034 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20035 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
20036 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
20037 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20038 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
20039 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
20040 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
20041 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
20044 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
20045 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
20046 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
20047 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
20048 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
20049 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
20050 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
20051 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
20052 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
20053 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
20054 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
20055 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
20056 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
20057 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20058 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20060 o Minor bugfixes (other):
20061 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
20062 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20063 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
20064 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
20065 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
20066 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
20067 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20068 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
20069 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
20070 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
20071 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
20072 Should help resolve bug 8235.
20073 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
20074 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
20075 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
20076 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20078 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
20079 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
20080 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
20081 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
20082 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
20083 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
20084 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
20085 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
20088 o Minor bugfixes (config):
20089 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
20090 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
20092 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
20093 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
20094 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20095 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
20096 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
20097 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
20098 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20099 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
20100 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
20101 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20102 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
20103 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
20104 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20105 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
20106 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
20109 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
20110 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
20111 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
20112 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
20113 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
20114 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
20115 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
20116 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
20118 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
20119 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
20120 or at least make it more diagnosable.
20121 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
20122 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
20123 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
20124 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20126 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
20127 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
20128 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
20129 the relaxed timeout log message.
20130 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
20131 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
20132 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
20134 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
20135 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
20136 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20137 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
20138 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20139 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
20140 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
20143 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
20144 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
20145 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
20146 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
20147 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20148 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
20149 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20150 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
20151 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
20152 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
20153 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
20154 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
20155 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20156 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
20157 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
20158 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
20159 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20161 o Documentation fixes:
20162 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
20163 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
20164 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
20165 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
20166 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
20167 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
20168 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
20169 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
20172 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
20173 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
20177 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
20178 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
20179 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
20180 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
20182 o Major features (directory authorities):
20183 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
20184 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
20185 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
20186 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
20187 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
20188 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
20189 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
20190 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
20191 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
20192 Implements ticket 8151.
20194 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20195 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
20196 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
20197 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
20198 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20200 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20201 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
20202 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
20203 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
20204 whether authentication information is present, causing all
20205 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
20206 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
20208 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
20209 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
20210 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
20211 bugs 1913 and 1992.
20212 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
20213 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
20214 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
20215 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
20216 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
20217 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
20218 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
20219 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
20220 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
20221 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
20222 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
20223 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
20224 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
20225 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
20226 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
20227 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
20228 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
20229 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
20232 o Minor features (portability):
20233 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
20234 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20235 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
20236 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
20237 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
20238 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
20239 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
20240 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20242 o Minor features (other):
20243 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
20244 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
20245 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
20246 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
20247 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
20248 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
20249 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
20250 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
20252 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20254 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
20255 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
20256 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
20257 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
20258 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
20259 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20260 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
20261 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
20262 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
20263 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
20265 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
20266 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
20267 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
20268 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20270 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20271 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
20272 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
20273 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
20274 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
20275 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
20276 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
20278 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
20279 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
20280 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
20281 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
20282 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
20284 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
20285 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
20286 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
20287 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
20289 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
20290 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
20291 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
20294 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
20295 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
20296 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
20297 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
20299 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
20300 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
20301 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
20302 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20304 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
20305 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
20306 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
20307 this is CID 718634.
20308 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
20309 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
20310 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
20311 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
20313 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
20314 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
20315 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20316 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
20317 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
20318 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
20319 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20321 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20322 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
20326 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
20327 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
20328 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
20329 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
20330 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
20333 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
20334 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
20335 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
20336 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20338 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
20339 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
20340 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20344 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
20345 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
20346 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
20347 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
20348 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
20349 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
20350 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
20351 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
20352 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
20353 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20354 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
20355 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
20356 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
20359 o Major features (relay):
20360 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
20361 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
20362 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
20363 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
20364 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
20365 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
20366 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
20368 o Major features (portability):
20369 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
20370 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
20371 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
20372 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
20373 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20376 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
20377 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
20378 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
20379 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
20380 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
20381 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
20383 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
20384 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
20385 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
20386 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
20387 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
20388 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
20389 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
20390 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
20392 o Minor features (path selection):
20393 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
20394 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
20395 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
20396 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
20397 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
20398 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
20399 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
20400 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
20401 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
20402 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
20403 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
20404 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
20405 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
20406 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
20407 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
20408 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
20409 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
20410 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
20411 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
20413 o Minor features (log messages):
20414 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
20415 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
20416 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
20417 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
20420 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
20421 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
20422 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20423 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
20424 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
20425 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
20426 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
20427 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
20428 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
20429 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20430 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
20431 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20433 o Build improvements:
20434 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
20435 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
20436 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
20437 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
20438 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
20439 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
20440 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
20441 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
20442 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
20443 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
20444 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
20445 than to perform erroneously.
20447 o Removed features:
20448 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
20449 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
20450 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
20452 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
20453 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
20454 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
20457 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20458 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
20460 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
20461 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
20465 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
20466 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
20467 work more robustly.
20470 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
20471 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
20472 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
20476 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
20477 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
20478 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
20479 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
20482 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
20483 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
20484 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
20485 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
20486 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
20487 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
20488 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
20489 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
20490 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
20491 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
20492 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
20493 closes ticket 7199.
20495 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
20496 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
20497 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
20498 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
20499 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
20500 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
20501 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
20502 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
20503 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
20504 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
20505 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
20507 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
20508 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
20509 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
20511 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
20512 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
20513 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
20515 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
20517 o Major features (better link encryption):
20518 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
20519 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
20520 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
20521 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
20522 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
20523 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
20526 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
20527 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
20528 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
20529 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
20530 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
20531 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
20532 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
20534 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
20535 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
20536 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
20537 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
20539 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
20542 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
20543 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
20544 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20547 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
20548 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
20549 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
20550 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
20551 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
20552 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
20553 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
20554 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20555 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20557 o Minor features (testing):
20558 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
20559 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
20560 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
20562 o Minor features (path bias detection):
20563 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
20564 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
20565 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
20566 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
20567 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
20568 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
20569 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
20570 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
20571 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
20572 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
20573 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
20574 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
20575 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
20576 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
20577 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
20578 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
20579 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
20580 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
20581 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
20582 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
20583 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
20584 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
20585 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
20586 detection capability loss.
20588 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
20589 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
20590 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
20591 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
20592 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20593 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
20594 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
20595 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
20598 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20599 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
20600 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
20601 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
20602 and the different handshakes it supports.
20603 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
20604 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
20605 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
20606 any encoding is overkill.
20609 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
20610 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
20611 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
20612 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
20613 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
20614 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
20615 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
20616 and fixes a variety of other issues.
20618 o Major features (client resilience):
20619 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
20620 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
20621 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
20622 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
20623 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
20624 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
20625 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
20626 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
20627 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
20628 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
20629 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
20630 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
20631 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
20632 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
20633 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
20635 o Major features (IPv6):
20636 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
20637 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
20638 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
20639 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
20640 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
20641 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
20642 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
20643 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
20645 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
20646 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
20648 o Major features (geoip database):
20649 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
20650 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
20651 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
20652 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
20653 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
20654 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
20655 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
20656 Country database, as modified above.
20658 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
20659 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
20660 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
20661 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
20662 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
20663 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
20664 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
20665 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
20666 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
20667 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
20668 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
20669 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
20670 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
20671 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
20672 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
20673 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
20674 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
20677 o Major bugfixes (other):
20678 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
20679 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
20680 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
20681 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
20682 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
20683 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
20684 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
20685 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
20687 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
20688 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
20691 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
20692 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
20693 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
20694 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
20695 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
20696 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
20697 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
20698 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
20700 o Minor features (IPv6):
20701 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
20702 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
20703 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
20704 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
20705 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
20706 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
20707 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
20708 connect to the wrong addresses.
20709 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
20710 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
20711 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
20712 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
20716 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
20717 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
20718 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
20719 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
20720 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
20721 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
20722 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
20724 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
20725 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
20726 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
20729 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
20730 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
20732 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20733 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
20734 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
20735 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
20736 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
20739 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
20740 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
20741 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
20742 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
20743 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
20744 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
20745 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
20746 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
20748 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
20749 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
20750 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
20751 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
20752 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
20753 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
20754 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
20755 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
20756 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
20757 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
20758 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
20761 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
20762 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
20763 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
20764 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
20765 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
20766 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
20767 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
20768 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
20769 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
20770 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
20773 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
20774 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
20778 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
20779 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
20780 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
20781 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
20784 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
20785 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
20787 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
20788 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
20789 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
20790 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
20791 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
20792 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
20793 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
20794 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
20795 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
20796 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
20799 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
20801 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
20802 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
20803 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
20804 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
20805 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
20808 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
20809 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
20810 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20811 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
20812 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
20814 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
20815 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
20816 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
20817 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
20818 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
20819 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
20820 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
20822 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
20823 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20824 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
20825 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
20826 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
20827 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20828 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
20829 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20831 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20832 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
20833 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
20834 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
20835 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
20836 present the same extensions.)
20839 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
20840 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
20841 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
20842 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
20843 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
20845 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
20846 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
20847 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
20848 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
20850 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
20851 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
20852 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
20853 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20855 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
20856 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
20857 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
20858 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
20859 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
20860 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
20861 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
20862 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
20863 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20865 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
20866 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
20867 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
20868 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
20869 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20872 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
20873 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
20874 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
20876 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20877 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
20879 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
20880 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
20884 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
20885 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
20886 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
20887 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
20890 o Major bugfixes (security):
20891 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
20892 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
20893 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
20895 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
20896 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
20897 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
20898 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20901 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
20902 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
20903 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
20904 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
20905 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
20906 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
20907 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
20908 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20911 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
20912 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
20913 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
20914 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20917 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
20918 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
20919 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
20920 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
20921 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
20922 scheduling algorithms.
20924 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
20925 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
20926 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
20928 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
20929 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
20930 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
20931 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
20932 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
20933 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
20934 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
20935 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
20936 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
20937 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
20938 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
20940 o Internal abstraction features:
20941 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
20942 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
20943 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
20944 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
20945 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
20946 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
20947 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
20948 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
20949 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
20950 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
20951 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
20952 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
20953 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
20954 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
20955 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
20956 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
20957 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
20959 o Required libraries:
20960 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
20961 strongly recommended.
20964 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
20965 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
20966 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
20967 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
20968 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
20969 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
20970 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
20971 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
20972 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
20974 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
20975 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
20976 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
20977 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
20978 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
20979 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
20980 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
20981 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20982 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
20983 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
20984 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
20985 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
20986 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
20987 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
20988 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20991 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
20992 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
20993 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
20994 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
20995 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
20996 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
20997 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
20998 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
20999 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
21000 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
21001 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
21002 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21003 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
21004 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
21005 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21006 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
21007 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
21008 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
21009 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
21011 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
21012 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
21013 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
21014 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
21015 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
21016 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
21017 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
21020 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
21021 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
21022 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
21023 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
21025 o New directory authorities:
21026 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21027 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21029 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
21030 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21031 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21032 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21033 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21034 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21035 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21036 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
21037 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
21038 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
21039 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
21042 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21043 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21044 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21046 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
21047 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
21048 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
21049 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21050 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
21051 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
21052 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21053 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
21054 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
21056 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
21057 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
21058 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
21059 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
21060 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
21061 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
21062 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
21063 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
21064 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
21065 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
21066 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
21067 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
21068 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
21069 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
21070 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
21071 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
21072 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
21073 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
21075 o Documentation fixes:
21076 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
21079 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
21080 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
21081 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
21082 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
21085 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
21086 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
21087 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21090 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21091 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21092 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21093 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
21094 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
21095 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
21096 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
21097 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
21099 o Security features:
21100 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
21101 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
21102 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
21103 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
21104 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
21105 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
21106 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
21107 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
21108 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
21112 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
21113 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
21114 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
21117 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
21118 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
21119 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
21120 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
21121 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21122 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
21123 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
21124 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
21125 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
21126 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
21127 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21128 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
21129 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
21130 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
21132 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
21133 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21134 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
21135 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
21136 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21138 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
21139 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
21140 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
21141 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21142 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
21143 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
21144 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21145 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
21146 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
21147 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
21148 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
21149 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
21150 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
21151 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21152 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
21153 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
21154 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
21155 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
21156 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
21157 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
21159 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21160 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
21161 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
21162 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
21163 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
21164 testable, and a little less fragile too.
21165 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
21166 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21168 o Documentation fixes:
21169 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
21170 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
21174 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
21175 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
21179 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
21180 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
21181 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21184 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
21185 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
21189 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
21190 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
21194 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
21195 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
21196 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21197 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
21198 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
21199 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
21200 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
21204 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
21205 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
21206 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
21207 log messages less noisy.
21210 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
21211 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
21215 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
21216 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
21217 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
21218 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
21219 last time we raised it).
21222 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
21223 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
21225 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
21226 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
21227 part of ticket 6736.
21228 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
21229 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
21230 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
21234 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
21235 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
21236 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
21237 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
21238 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
21240 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
21241 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21242 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
21243 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
21244 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21245 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
21246 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
21247 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21248 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
21249 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21250 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
21251 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
21253 o Removed features:
21254 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
21255 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
21256 bunch of compatibility code.
21258 o Code refactoring:
21259 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
21260 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
21261 the ORPort and the DirPort.
21264 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
21265 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
21266 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
21267 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
21269 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
21270 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
21271 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
21273 o Major features (bridges):
21274 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
21275 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
21276 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
21279 o Major features (IPv6):
21280 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
21281 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
21282 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
21283 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
21284 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
21285 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
21286 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
21287 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
21288 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
21290 o Major features (build):
21291 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
21292 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
21293 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
21294 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
21295 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
21296 fixes by Jim Meyering.
21297 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
21298 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
21299 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
21301 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
21302 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
21303 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
21304 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
21305 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
21306 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
21307 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
21308 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
21309 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
21310 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
21311 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
21313 o Minor features (streamlining);
21314 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
21315 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
21317 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
21318 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
21319 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
21320 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
21321 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
21322 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21324 o Minor features (controller):
21325 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
21327 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
21328 Implements ticket 4971.
21330 o Minor features (IPv6):
21331 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
21332 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
21333 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
21334 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
21335 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
21337 o Minor features (log messages):
21338 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
21339 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
21340 Resolves ticket 6758.
21341 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
21342 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
21343 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
21344 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21345 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
21346 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
21347 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
21349 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
21350 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
21351 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
21352 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
21353 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
21356 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21357 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
21358 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
21359 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
21360 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
21362 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
21363 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
21364 Implements ticket 5529.
21365 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
21366 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
21367 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
21368 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
21369 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
21370 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
21371 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
21372 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
21373 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
21374 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
21376 o New requirements:
21377 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
21378 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
21379 from a source distribution.)
21382 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
21383 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
21384 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
21385 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
21386 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
21387 and cleans up other smaller issues.
21389 o Major bugfixes (security):
21390 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
21391 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
21392 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
21393 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
21394 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
21395 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
21396 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
21397 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
21398 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
21399 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
21400 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
21401 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21402 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
21403 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
21404 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
21405 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
21409 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
21410 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
21411 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
21412 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21413 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
21414 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
21415 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
21416 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
21417 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
21418 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
21421 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
21422 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
21423 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
21424 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
21425 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21426 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
21427 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
21428 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
21429 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
21430 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
21431 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
21433 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
21434 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
21435 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
21437 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
21438 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
21439 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
21440 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
21441 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
21442 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
21443 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
21444 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
21445 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21446 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
21447 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21448 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
21449 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
21450 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
21453 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
21454 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
21455 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
21456 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
21457 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21458 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
21459 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
21460 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
21461 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
21462 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
21463 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
21464 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
21465 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
21466 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
21467 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
21470 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
21471 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
21472 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
21473 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
21474 Resolves ticket 6732.
21477 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
21478 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
21479 attack that could in theory leak path information.
21482 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
21483 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
21484 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21485 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
21486 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
21487 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
21488 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
21489 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
21490 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
21491 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
21492 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
21493 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
21494 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
21495 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21498 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
21499 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
21500 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
21501 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
21504 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
21505 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
21506 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21507 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
21508 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
21509 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21510 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
21511 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
21512 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
21513 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
21514 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
21515 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
21516 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
21517 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
21518 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
21519 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
21520 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21523 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
21524 a little more useful.
21525 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
21526 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
21527 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
21528 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
21529 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
21530 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
21531 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
21534 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
21535 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21536 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
21537 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
21538 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
21539 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
21543 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
21544 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
21545 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
21546 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
21547 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
21550 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
21551 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
21552 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
21555 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
21557 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
21559 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21560 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
21561 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
21562 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
21563 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
21566 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
21567 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
21568 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
21569 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
21570 since the beginning of Tor.
21573 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
21574 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
21575 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
21576 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
21577 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
21578 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
21579 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
21580 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21581 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
21582 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
21585 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
21586 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
21589 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
21590 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
21591 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
21592 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
21595 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
21596 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21597 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
21598 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
21599 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
21600 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21602 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
21603 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
21604 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
21605 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
21606 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
21607 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
21608 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21609 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
21610 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
21611 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
21612 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
21613 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
21614 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
21615 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21616 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
21617 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
21618 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21619 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
21620 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21622 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
21623 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
21624 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
21626 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
21627 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21628 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
21629 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
21631 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
21632 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
21633 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
21634 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
21635 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
21636 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
21637 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21638 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
21639 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
21640 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
21641 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21642 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
21643 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
21644 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21645 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
21646 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
21649 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
21650 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
21651 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
21652 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
21653 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
21656 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
21657 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
21658 options. Closes bug 4748.
21661 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
21662 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
21663 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
21664 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
21665 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
21669 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
21670 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
21672 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
21673 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
21674 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
21675 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
21676 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
21677 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
21678 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
21679 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
21680 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
21683 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
21684 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
21685 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
21686 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
21687 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
21688 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
21689 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
21690 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
21693 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
21694 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
21695 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
21696 case for flushing marked connections.
21697 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
21698 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
21699 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
21700 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
21701 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
21702 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
21703 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21704 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
21705 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21706 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
21707 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
21708 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
21709 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21710 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
21711 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
21712 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
21713 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21714 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
21715 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21716 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
21717 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
21718 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
21719 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21720 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
21721 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
21723 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
21724 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
21725 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
21729 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
21730 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
21731 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
21732 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
21733 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
21734 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
21735 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
21736 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
21737 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
21738 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
21739 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
21740 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
21741 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
21742 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
21743 Addresses ticket 5458.
21744 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21746 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21747 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
21748 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
21751 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
21752 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
21753 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
21757 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
21758 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
21759 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
21760 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
21761 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
21762 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
21763 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21764 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
21765 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
21766 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
21767 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21770 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
21771 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
21774 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
21775 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
21778 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
21779 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
21780 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
21781 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
21782 that get us closer to a release candidate.
21784 o Major bugfixes (general):
21785 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
21786 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
21787 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
21788 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
21789 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
21790 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
21791 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21792 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
21793 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
21795 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
21796 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
21797 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
21798 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
21801 o Major bugfixes (clients):
21802 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
21803 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
21804 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
21805 which introduced predicted ports.
21806 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
21807 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
21808 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
21809 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21810 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
21811 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
21812 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
21813 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
21814 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
21815 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
21816 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21817 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
21818 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
21820 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
21821 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
21822 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
21823 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
21824 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
21825 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
21826 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
21827 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
21828 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
21829 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
21830 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
21834 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
21835 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
21836 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
21837 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
21838 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
21839 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
21840 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
21841 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
21842 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
21843 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
21844 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
21845 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
21846 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
21847 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
21849 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
21850 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
21851 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
21852 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
21853 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
21854 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
21855 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
21856 sure. Closes bug 5139.
21857 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
21858 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
21859 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
21860 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
21861 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
21862 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
21863 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21865 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
21866 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
21867 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
21868 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
21869 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
21870 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
21871 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
21872 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
21873 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
21874 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
21875 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
21876 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
21877 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
21878 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
21879 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
21880 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
21881 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
21882 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21883 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
21884 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
21886 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
21887 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
21888 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
21889 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
21890 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
21891 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
21892 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
21893 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
21894 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
21895 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
21896 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
21897 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
21898 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
21900 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
21901 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21902 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
21903 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
21905 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
21906 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
21907 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21908 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
21909 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
21910 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21911 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
21912 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
21913 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
21914 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
21916 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
21917 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
21918 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
21920 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
21921 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
21922 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
21923 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
21924 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
21925 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
21926 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
21927 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
21928 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
21929 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
21930 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
21931 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21932 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
21933 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
21934 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
21935 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21936 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
21937 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
21938 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
21939 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
21941 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
21942 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
21943 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21944 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
21945 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
21946 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
21948 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
21949 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
21950 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
21952 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
21953 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
21954 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
21955 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21956 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
21957 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
21959 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
21960 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
21961 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
21963 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
21964 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
21965 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21966 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
21967 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
21968 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21969 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
21970 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
21971 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
21972 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
21973 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
21974 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
21975 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
21976 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
21977 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
21978 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
21980 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
21981 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
21982 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21983 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
21984 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
21985 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21986 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
21987 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21988 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
21989 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
21990 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
21991 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
21992 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
21995 o Documentation fixes:
21996 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
21997 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
21998 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
21999 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
22000 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
22001 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
22004 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
22005 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
22009 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
22010 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
22011 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
22012 and fixes several crash bugs.
22014 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
22015 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
22016 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
22017 those packages and upgrade anyway.
22019 o Directory authority changes:
22020 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
22021 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
22025 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
22026 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
22027 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
22028 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
22029 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
22030 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
22031 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
22032 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
22033 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
22034 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
22035 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
22036 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
22037 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
22038 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
22039 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
22040 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
22041 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
22042 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
22043 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
22044 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
22045 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
22046 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
22047 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
22048 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
22049 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
22050 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
22051 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
22054 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
22055 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22056 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
22057 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
22059 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
22060 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
22062 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
22063 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
22064 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
22065 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
22066 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
22067 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
22068 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
22069 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
22072 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
22073 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
22074 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
22075 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
22076 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
22077 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
22078 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
22079 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
22080 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
22081 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
22082 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
22083 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
22084 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
22085 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
22086 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
22087 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
22088 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
22089 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
22090 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
22091 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
22092 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
22093 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
22094 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
22095 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
22096 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22097 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
22098 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
22099 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
22100 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
22101 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
22102 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
22103 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
22104 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22105 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
22106 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22107 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
22108 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
22109 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
22110 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
22111 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22112 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
22113 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22114 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
22115 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
22116 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
22117 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22119 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22120 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
22121 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
22122 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
22123 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
22124 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
22125 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
22126 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
22127 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
22128 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
22129 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22130 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
22131 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22132 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
22133 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
22136 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
22137 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
22138 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
22139 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
22141 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22144 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
22145 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
22146 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
22147 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
22148 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
22149 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
22150 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
22153 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
22154 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
22155 the development branch build on Windows again.
22157 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
22158 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
22159 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
22160 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
22161 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
22162 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
22163 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
22164 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
22165 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
22166 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
22167 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
22168 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
22169 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22170 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
22171 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
22173 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
22174 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
22175 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
22176 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22177 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
22178 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
22179 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
22180 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
22181 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
22182 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
22183 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
22184 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22187 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
22188 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
22189 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
22190 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
22191 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
22192 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
22193 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
22194 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
22195 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
22197 o Removed features:
22198 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
22199 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
22200 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
22201 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
22205 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
22206 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
22207 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
22208 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
22210 o Directory authority changes:
22211 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
22215 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
22216 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22217 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
22218 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
22220 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
22221 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
22222 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
22223 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
22224 documents entirely.
22225 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
22226 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
22227 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22229 o Major features (performance):
22230 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
22231 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
22232 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
22233 much faster than other AES implementations.
22235 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
22236 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
22237 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
22238 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
22239 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
22240 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
22241 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
22242 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
22243 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
22244 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
22245 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22246 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
22247 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
22248 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
22249 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22250 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
22251 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
22252 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22254 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
22255 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
22256 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
22257 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22258 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
22259 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22260 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
22261 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
22262 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
22264 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
22265 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
22266 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22267 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
22268 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
22269 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
22272 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
22273 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
22274 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
22275 please let us know about it.
22276 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
22277 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
22278 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
22279 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
22280 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22281 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22282 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
22283 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
22285 o Default torrc changes:
22286 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
22287 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
22289 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
22290 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
22291 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
22294 o Removed features:
22295 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
22296 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
22297 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
22298 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
22300 o Code refactoring:
22301 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
22302 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
22303 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
22304 it would be a bad idea to start.
22307 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
22308 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
22309 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
22310 that get us closer to a release candidate.
22312 o Directory authority changes:
22313 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
22316 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
22317 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
22318 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
22319 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
22320 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
22321 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
22322 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
22323 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
22324 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
22325 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
22326 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
22327 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
22328 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
22329 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
22330 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
22331 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
22333 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
22334 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
22335 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
22336 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
22337 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
22338 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22339 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
22340 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
22341 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22342 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
22343 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
22344 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
22346 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
22347 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
22348 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22349 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
22350 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
22352 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
22353 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
22354 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
22355 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
22356 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
22357 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
22358 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
22359 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
22360 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
22361 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
22362 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
22363 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
22364 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22365 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
22366 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22367 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
22368 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
22369 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
22370 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
22371 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
22372 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
22373 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
22376 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
22377 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
22378 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22379 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
22380 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
22381 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
22382 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
22383 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
22384 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22385 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
22386 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
22387 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
22388 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
22389 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
22390 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
22391 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
22392 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
22395 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
22396 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
22397 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22400 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
22401 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
22402 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
22403 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
22406 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
22407 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
22409 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
22410 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
22411 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
22412 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22413 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
22414 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
22415 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
22416 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
22417 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
22418 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
22419 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
22420 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22423 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
22424 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
22425 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
22426 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
22427 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
22428 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
22429 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22432 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
22433 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
22434 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
22435 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22436 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
22437 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
22438 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
22439 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
22440 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
22441 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
22443 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
22444 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
22445 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
22446 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
22447 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
22448 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
22449 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
22450 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
22451 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
22454 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22455 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
22456 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
22460 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
22461 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
22462 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
22463 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
22464 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
22465 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
22468 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
22469 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
22470 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
22471 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
22472 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
22473 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
22474 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
22475 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
22477 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
22478 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
22479 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
22480 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
22481 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
22482 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
22483 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
22484 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
22486 o Major security workaround:
22487 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
22488 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
22489 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
22490 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
22491 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
22492 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
22493 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
22494 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
22495 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
22496 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
22497 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
22500 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
22501 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
22502 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
22503 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
22504 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
22505 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
22506 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
22507 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22508 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
22509 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
22510 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
22511 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
22512 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
22514 o Minor features (controller):
22515 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
22516 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
22517 file. Resolves bug 1101.
22518 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
22519 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
22520 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
22521 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
22522 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
22523 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
22525 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
22526 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
22527 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
22528 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
22529 part of ticket 3457.
22530 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
22531 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
22532 circuit-status' control-port command.
22534 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22535 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
22536 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
22537 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
22538 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
22540 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
22541 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
22542 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
22543 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
22544 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
22545 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
22546 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
22548 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
22549 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
22551 o Minor features (other):
22552 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
22553 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
22554 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
22555 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
22556 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
22557 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
22558 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
22559 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
22561 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
22562 them from the other auths.
22563 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
22564 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
22565 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
22566 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
22567 the 0.2.3.x series.
22568 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22570 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22571 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
22572 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
22573 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
22574 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
22575 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
22576 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
22577 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
22578 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
22579 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
22580 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22581 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
22582 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
22583 be disabled using the new
22584 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
22585 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22586 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
22587 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
22588 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
22589 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
22590 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
22591 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
22592 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
22593 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
22594 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
22595 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
22597 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
22598 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
22599 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
22602 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
22603 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
22604 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
22606 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
22607 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
22608 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
22609 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
22610 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22611 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
22612 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22614 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
22615 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
22616 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
22617 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
22618 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
22619 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
22620 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
22621 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
22623 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
22624 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
22625 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22626 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
22627 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
22628 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
22629 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
22630 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
22631 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
22634 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22635 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
22636 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
22637 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
22638 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
22639 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
22640 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
22641 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
22642 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
22643 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
22644 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
22645 accidentally been reverted.
22646 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
22647 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
22648 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
22649 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
22650 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
22651 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
22652 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22653 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
22654 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
22655 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22656 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
22657 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
22658 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
22659 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
22660 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22661 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
22662 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22663 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
22664 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22667 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
22668 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
22669 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
22670 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
22671 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
22672 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
22673 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
22675 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22676 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
22677 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
22678 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
22679 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
22680 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
22681 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
22683 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
22684 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
22685 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
22686 invalid value, rather than just -1.
22687 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
22688 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
22689 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
22690 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
22691 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
22692 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
22693 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
22697 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
22698 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
22699 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
22701 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
22702 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
22703 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
22704 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
22705 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
22706 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
22707 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
22708 (which Tor does not do by default).
22710 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
22711 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
22712 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
22713 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
22714 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
22716 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
22720 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22721 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22722 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22723 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22726 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
22727 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
22728 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
22729 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
22730 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
22731 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
22732 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
22733 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
22734 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
22735 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
22736 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22739 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22742 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
22743 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
22744 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
22746 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
22747 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
22748 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
22749 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
22750 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
22751 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
22752 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
22753 (which Tor does not do by default).
22755 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
22756 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
22757 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
22758 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
22759 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
22761 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
22762 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
22763 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
22766 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
22767 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
22768 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
22769 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
22770 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
22772 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
22773 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
22776 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22777 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22778 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22779 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22780 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
22781 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
22782 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
22783 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
22785 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
22786 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
22787 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
22788 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
22789 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
22790 close based on processing a cell on it.
22791 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22792 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22793 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22794 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22795 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
22796 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
22797 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22798 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
22799 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
22800 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
22801 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
22802 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
22803 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
22804 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
22805 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
22808 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
22809 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
22810 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
22811 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
22812 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
22813 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
22814 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
22816 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
22817 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
22818 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
22819 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
22820 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
22821 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22822 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
22823 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
22824 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22825 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
22826 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
22827 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
22828 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
22829 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22830 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
22831 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
22832 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
22833 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
22834 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22835 Reported by "troll_un".
22836 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
22837 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22838 Reported by "troll_un".
22839 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
22840 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
22841 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
22842 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
22845 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
22846 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
22847 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
22848 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
22849 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
22850 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
22851 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
22852 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
22853 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
22854 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
22855 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22857 o Packaging changes:
22858 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
22859 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
22862 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
22863 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
22864 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
22865 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
22866 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22868 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
22869 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
22871 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22872 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22873 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22874 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22875 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22876 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22877 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22878 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22879 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22882 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22885 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
22886 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
22887 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
22888 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
22889 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
22890 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
22891 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
22894 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
22895 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
22896 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
22897 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
22898 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
22899 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
22900 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
22901 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
22902 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
22903 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
22904 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
22905 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
22906 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
22907 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
22908 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
22909 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
22910 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
22911 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
22912 Resolves ticket 4526.
22913 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
22914 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
22915 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
22916 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
22917 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
22918 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
22919 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
22920 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
22921 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
22922 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
22923 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
22924 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
22925 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
22926 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
22927 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
22928 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
22931 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
22932 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
22933 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
22934 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
22935 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
22936 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
22937 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
22938 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
22939 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
22940 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
22942 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
22943 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
22944 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
22945 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
22946 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
22947 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
22948 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
22949 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
22950 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
22952 o Minor features (new/different config options):
22953 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
22954 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
22955 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
22956 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
22957 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
22958 Implements issue 933.
22959 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
22960 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
22961 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
22962 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
22963 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
22964 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
22965 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
22966 appending to the list.
22967 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
22968 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
22969 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
22970 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
22972 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
22973 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
22974 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
22975 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
22976 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
22977 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
22978 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
22979 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
22982 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
22983 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
22984 Resolves ticket 2474.
22985 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
22986 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
22987 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
22988 Required by fix for bug 3460.
22989 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
22990 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
22991 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
22992 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
22993 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
22994 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
22995 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
22996 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
22997 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
22999 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23000 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
23001 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
23003 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
23005 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
23006 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
23008 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
23009 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
23010 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
23011 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
23012 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
23013 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
23014 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
23016 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
23017 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
23018 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23019 Reported by "troll_un".
23020 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
23021 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23022 Reported by "troll_un".
23023 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
23024 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
23025 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
23026 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
23028 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
23029 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
23031 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
23032 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
23033 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
23034 with help from wanoskarnet.
23035 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
23036 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
23039 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
23040 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
23041 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
23042 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23044 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
23045 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
23046 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
23047 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
23048 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
23049 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
23050 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
23051 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
23054 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
23055 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
23056 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
23057 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
23058 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
23059 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
23060 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
23061 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
23062 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
23065 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
23066 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
23067 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
23068 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
23070 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
23071 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
23072 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
23073 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23074 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
23075 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
23076 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
23077 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
23078 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
23079 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
23080 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
23081 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
23082 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
23083 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
23084 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
23085 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
23086 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
23087 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
23088 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
23089 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
23090 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
23091 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
23092 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
23093 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
23096 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
23097 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
23098 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
23099 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
23100 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
23101 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23102 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
23103 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
23106 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23107 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
23108 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
23109 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
23110 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
23111 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
23112 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
23113 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
23114 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
23115 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
23116 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
23117 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
23118 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
23119 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
23120 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
23122 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
23123 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
23124 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
23125 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
23126 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23127 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
23128 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
23129 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23130 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
23131 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
23132 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
23133 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
23134 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
23135 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23136 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
23137 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
23138 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23140 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
23141 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
23142 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
23143 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
23144 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23145 Found by frosty_un.
23146 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
23147 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
23148 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
23150 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
23151 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
23152 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
23154 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
23155 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
23157 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
23158 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23161 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
23162 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
23163 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
23164 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
23165 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
23166 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
23167 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
23168 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
23169 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
23170 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
23171 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
23172 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
23173 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
23174 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
23176 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
23177 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
23178 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23180 o Packaging changes:
23181 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
23182 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
23184 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23185 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
23186 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
23187 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
23188 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
23189 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
23190 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
23191 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
23192 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
23195 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
23197 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
23198 ./src/test/bench binary.
23199 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
23200 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
23203 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
23204 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
23205 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
23209 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
23210 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
23211 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
23212 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
23213 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
23214 close based on processing a cell on it.
23215 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
23216 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
23217 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23218 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
23219 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
23220 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
23221 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
23222 cells were introduced.
23225 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
23226 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
23229 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
23230 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
23231 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
23232 users. Everybody should upgrade.
23234 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
23235 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
23238 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
23239 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
23240 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
23241 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
23242 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
23243 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
23245 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
23246 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23247 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23248 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23249 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23250 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23251 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23252 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23253 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23254 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23255 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23256 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
23257 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
23258 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
23259 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
23260 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
23261 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
23262 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
23265 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23266 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
23267 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
23268 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
23269 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
23270 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
23271 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
23272 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
23273 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
23274 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
23275 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
23276 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
23277 Partly fixes bug 3825.
23278 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
23279 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
23280 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
23281 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
23282 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
23283 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
23284 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
23286 o Major bugfixes (other):
23287 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23288 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23289 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23290 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23291 Found by "frosty_un".
23292 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
23293 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
23294 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
23295 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
23296 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
23297 immensely in tracking this bug down.
23298 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
23299 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
23302 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
23303 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
23304 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
23305 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
23306 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
23307 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
23308 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
23309 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
23310 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
23311 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
23312 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
23313 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
23314 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
23315 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23316 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
23317 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
23318 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
23319 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
23320 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
23321 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
23322 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
23324 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
23325 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
23326 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
23327 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23328 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
23329 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
23330 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
23331 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
23332 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
23333 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
23334 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
23337 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
23338 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
23339 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
23340 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
23341 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
23342 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
23343 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
23344 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
23345 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
23346 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
23347 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
23348 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
23349 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
23350 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23352 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23353 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
23354 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
23355 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
23356 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
23357 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
23358 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
23359 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
23362 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
23363 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
23364 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
23366 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
23367 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
23368 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
23369 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
23370 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
23371 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
23372 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
23373 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
23374 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
23375 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
23376 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
23377 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
23378 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
23380 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
23381 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
23382 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
23383 currently connected to them.
23385 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
23386 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
23387 remain; see for example proposal 188.
23389 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
23390 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23391 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23392 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23393 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23394 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23395 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23396 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23397 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23398 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23399 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23400 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
23401 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
23402 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
23403 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
23404 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
23405 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
23406 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
23409 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
23410 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
23411 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
23412 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
23413 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
23414 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
23415 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
23416 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
23417 when bridges were introduced.
23418 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23419 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23420 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23421 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23422 Found by "frosty_un".
23425 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
23426 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
23428 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
23429 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
23430 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
23431 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
23432 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
23433 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
23434 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
23437 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
23438 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
23439 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
23440 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
23441 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
23442 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
23443 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
23444 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
23445 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
23446 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
23447 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
23448 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
23449 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
23450 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
23451 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
23452 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
23453 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
23454 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
23456 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
23457 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
23458 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
23459 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23460 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
23461 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
23462 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
23463 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
23464 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
23465 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
23466 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
23467 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23470 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
23471 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
23472 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
23473 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23476 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
23477 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
23478 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
23479 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
23480 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
23482 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23483 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
23484 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
23485 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
23486 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
23487 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
23488 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
23489 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
23490 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
23491 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23493 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23494 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23495 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23496 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23497 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23498 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23499 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23500 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23501 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23502 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23503 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23504 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23505 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23506 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23507 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23508 Found by "frosty_un".
23509 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23510 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23511 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23512 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23513 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23514 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23515 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23516 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23517 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23518 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23519 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
23520 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23521 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23522 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
23523 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
23524 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
23525 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
23526 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
23527 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
23529 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23530 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
23531 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
23532 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
23533 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
23534 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
23535 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
23536 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
23538 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
23539 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
23540 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
23541 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
23542 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
23543 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
23544 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
23545 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23546 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23547 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23548 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23549 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23551 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23552 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23553 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
23554 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23555 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
23556 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23557 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23558 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23559 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23561 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
23563 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
23564 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
23565 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
23566 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23567 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
23568 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
23569 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
23570 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23572 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
23573 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
23574 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
23575 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
23576 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
23578 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23579 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23580 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23581 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
23582 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23585 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
23586 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
23587 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
23588 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
23589 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
23592 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
23593 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
23594 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
23595 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
23596 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
23597 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
23598 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
23599 when bridges were introduced.
23602 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
23603 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
23604 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23606 o Major features (networking):
23607 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
23608 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
23609 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
23610 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
23611 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
23615 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
23616 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
23617 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
23619 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
23620 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
23621 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
23622 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
23623 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23625 o Minor features (diagnostics):
23626 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
23627 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
23630 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
23631 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
23632 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
23633 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
23634 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
23635 listed in the network consensus and republish.
23637 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
23638 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
23639 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
23640 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23642 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
23643 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
23644 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
23645 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
23646 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
23647 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
23648 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
23649 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
23650 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
23651 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
23652 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
23654 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
23655 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23656 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23657 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
23658 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
23659 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
23660 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
23661 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
23662 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
23663 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23665 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
23666 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
23667 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
23668 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
23669 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
23670 fixes part of bug 2442.
23671 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
23672 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
23673 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
23675 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
23676 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
23677 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
23678 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
23679 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23681 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
23682 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
23683 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
23684 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
23685 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
23688 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
23689 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
23690 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
23694 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
23695 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
23696 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
23697 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
23698 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
23699 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
23700 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
23703 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
23704 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
23705 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
23706 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
23707 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
23708 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
23709 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
23712 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
23713 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
23714 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
23715 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
23716 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
23717 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
23718 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
23719 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
23720 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23722 o Code refactoring:
23723 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
23724 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
23727 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
23728 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
23729 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
23730 reachable from Iran again.
23733 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
23734 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
23735 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23737 o Minor features (security):
23738 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
23739 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
23740 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
23741 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
23742 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
23743 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
23744 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
23745 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
23746 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
23747 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
23750 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23751 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23752 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
23753 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
23754 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
23755 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
23756 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
23757 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
23758 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23760 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
23761 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
23762 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
23763 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
23764 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
23765 raised by bug 3898.
23766 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
23767 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
23768 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
23769 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
23770 fixes part of bug 2442.
23771 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
23772 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
23773 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
23775 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
23776 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
23777 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
23778 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
23779 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23782 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
23783 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23784 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
23785 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
23786 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
23787 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
23790 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
23791 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
23792 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
23793 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
23794 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
23795 bufferevent-based networking backend.
23797 o Major features (stream isolation):
23798 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
23799 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
23800 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
23801 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
23802 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
23803 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
23804 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
23805 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
23806 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
23807 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
23808 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
23809 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
23810 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
23811 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
23813 o Major features (other):
23814 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
23815 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
23816 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
23817 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
23818 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
23819 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
23820 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
23821 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
23822 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
23823 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
23824 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
23825 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
23826 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
23828 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
23829 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
23831 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
23832 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
23833 Fixes part of bug 3752.
23834 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
23835 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
23836 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
23837 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
23838 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
23839 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
23840 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
23841 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
23842 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
23843 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
23844 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
23845 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
23846 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
23847 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
23848 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
23849 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
23850 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
23852 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
23853 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
23854 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
23855 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
23856 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
23857 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
23860 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
23861 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
23862 user. Implements ticket 1692.
23863 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
23864 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
23865 best copy data out of a buffer.
23866 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
23867 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
23868 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
23870 o Minor features (build compatibility):
23871 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
23872 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
23873 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23875 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
23876 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23878 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
23879 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
23880 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
23881 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
23882 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
23883 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
23884 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23886 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
23887 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
23888 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
23889 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
23890 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
23891 raised by bug 3898.
23892 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
23893 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
23894 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
23897 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
23898 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
23899 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
23900 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
23901 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
23902 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
23903 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
23904 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
23905 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
23906 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
23907 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
23908 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23909 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
23910 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
23911 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
23912 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
23913 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
23914 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
23915 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
23918 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23919 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
23920 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
23924 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
23925 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
23926 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
23927 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
23928 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
23929 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
23932 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
23933 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
23934 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
23935 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
23936 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
23937 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
23938 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
23939 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
23940 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
23941 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
23943 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
23944 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
23945 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
23946 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
23947 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
23948 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
23949 many many other features and bugfixes.
23952 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
23953 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
23954 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
23957 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
23958 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
23959 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
23960 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
23961 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
23962 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
23963 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
23964 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
23967 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23970 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
23971 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
23972 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23973 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
23974 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
23975 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
23976 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
23977 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
23978 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
23979 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
23980 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
23981 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
23982 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
23983 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23984 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
23985 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
23986 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
23987 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
23991 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
23992 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
23993 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
23994 up a variety of recently introduced features.
23997 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
23998 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
23999 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
24000 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
24001 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
24002 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
24003 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
24004 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
24005 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
24006 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
24007 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
24008 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
24009 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
24010 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
24011 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
24012 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
24014 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
24015 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
24016 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
24017 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
24018 order. Fixes bug 2798.
24019 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
24020 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
24021 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
24022 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
24023 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
24024 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
24028 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
24029 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
24030 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
24031 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
24033 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
24034 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
24035 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
24036 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
24037 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
24038 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
24039 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
24040 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
24041 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
24042 Implements ticket 3264.
24043 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
24044 implements ticket 3439.
24046 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
24047 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
24048 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
24049 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
24050 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
24051 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
24052 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
24053 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
24054 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
24055 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
24056 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
24057 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
24058 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
24059 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
24060 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
24061 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
24062 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
24063 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
24064 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
24065 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
24066 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
24067 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
24068 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
24069 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
24070 fails. Spotted by coverity.
24071 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
24072 present. Found by coverity.
24073 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
24074 a directory cache that provides them.
24076 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24077 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
24078 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
24079 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
24080 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
24081 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
24083 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
24084 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
24085 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24086 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
24087 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
24088 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24089 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
24090 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
24092 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24093 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
24094 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
24095 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
24096 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
24097 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
24098 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
24100 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
24104 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
24105 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
24106 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
24109 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
24110 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
24111 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
24112 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
24115 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
24116 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
24117 discovered by katmagic.
24118 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
24119 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
24120 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
24121 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24122 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
24123 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
24124 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
24125 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24126 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
24127 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
24128 fixes part of bug 3465.
24129 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
24130 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
24134 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24137 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
24138 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
24139 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
24140 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
24141 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
24144 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
24145 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
24146 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
24147 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
24148 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
24151 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
24152 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
24153 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
24154 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
24155 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
24156 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
24159 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
24160 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
24161 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
24162 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24163 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24164 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
24165 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
24166 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
24167 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
24168 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
24169 fixes part of bug 3407.
24170 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24171 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
24172 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
24173 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
24174 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
24175 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
24176 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
24177 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
24178 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
24179 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
24181 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
24182 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
24183 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
24184 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
24187 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24189 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24190 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
24191 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
24193 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
24195 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
24198 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
24199 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
24200 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
24201 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
24202 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
24203 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
24207 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
24208 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
24209 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
24210 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
24211 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
24212 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
24213 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
24215 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
24216 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24217 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
24218 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
24219 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
24220 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
24221 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
24222 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
24223 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
24224 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
24225 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
24226 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
24227 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
24228 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
24229 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
24230 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
24231 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
24232 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
24233 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
24237 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
24238 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
24239 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
24240 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
24241 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
24242 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
24243 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
24244 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
24245 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
24249 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
24250 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
24251 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
24253 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
24255 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
24256 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
24257 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
24258 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
24259 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24260 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
24261 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
24262 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
24263 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
24265 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
24266 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
24267 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
24268 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
24269 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
24270 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
24272 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
24273 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
24275 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
24276 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
24277 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24280 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
24281 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
24282 Resolves ticket 3252.
24283 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
24284 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
24285 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
24286 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
24287 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
24288 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
24291 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
24292 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
24295 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
24296 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
24297 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
24300 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
24301 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24302 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
24303 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
24304 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
24307 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
24308 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24309 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
24310 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
24311 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
24312 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
24313 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
24314 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
24315 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
24319 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
24320 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
24321 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
24322 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
24323 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
24325 o Security/privacy fixes:
24326 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
24327 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
24328 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
24329 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
24330 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
24331 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
24332 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
24333 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
24334 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
24335 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
24336 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
24337 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
24338 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
24339 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
24340 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24343 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
24344 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
24345 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
24346 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
24347 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
24348 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
24349 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
24350 part of ticket 3076.
24351 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
24352 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
24353 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
24357 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
24358 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
24359 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
24360 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
24361 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
24362 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
24363 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
24364 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
24366 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
24367 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
24368 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
24369 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
24370 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
24371 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
24372 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
24373 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
24374 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
24375 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
24376 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
24377 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
24378 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24381 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
24382 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
24383 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
24384 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
24385 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
24386 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
24387 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
24389 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
24390 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
24391 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
24392 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
24393 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
24394 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
24395 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
24396 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
24397 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
24398 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
24399 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
24400 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
24401 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
24402 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
24403 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
24404 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
24406 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
24407 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
24409 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
24410 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
24412 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
24413 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
24415 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
24416 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
24417 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24419 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
24420 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
24421 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
24422 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
24423 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24424 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
24425 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
24426 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
24427 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
24428 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
24429 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
24431 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
24432 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
24433 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
24434 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
24435 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
24436 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
24437 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
24438 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
24439 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
24440 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
24441 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24442 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
24443 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
24446 o Removed features:
24447 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
24448 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
24449 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
24453 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
24454 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
24455 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
24456 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
24457 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
24458 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
24460 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
24461 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
24462 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
24465 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
24466 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
24467 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
24468 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
24469 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
24470 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
24471 zero-copy transports where available.
24472 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
24473 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
24474 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
24475 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
24476 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
24477 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
24478 debug it as it breaks.
24479 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
24480 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
24481 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
24482 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
24483 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
24484 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
24485 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
24486 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
24487 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
24488 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
24489 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
24490 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
24491 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
24492 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
24493 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
24494 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
24495 PortForwarding option.
24496 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
24497 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
24498 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
24499 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
24500 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
24501 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
24502 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
24505 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
24506 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
24507 Implements enhancement 1668.
24508 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
24510 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
24511 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
24512 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
24513 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
24514 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
24515 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
24516 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
24518 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
24519 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
24520 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
24521 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
24522 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
24523 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
24524 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
24526 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
24527 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
24528 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
24529 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
24530 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
24531 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
24532 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
24534 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
24535 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
24536 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
24537 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
24538 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24539 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
24540 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
24541 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
24542 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
24543 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
24544 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
24545 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
24546 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
24547 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
24548 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
24551 o Minor features (controller):
24552 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
24553 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
24554 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
24555 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
24556 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
24557 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
24558 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
24561 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
24562 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
24563 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
24564 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
24565 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
24566 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
24567 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
24568 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
24570 o Minor packaging issues:
24571 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
24572 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
24574 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24575 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
24576 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
24577 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
24578 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
24579 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
24580 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
24581 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
24582 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
24583 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
24584 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
24585 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
24586 our library structure used to force them to link it.
24588 o Removed features:
24589 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
24590 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
24591 are no longer in use as servers.
24593 o Documentation fixes:
24594 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
24595 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
24596 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
24600 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
24601 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
24602 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
24603 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
24604 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
24605 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
24606 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
24607 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
24608 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
24609 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
24612 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
24613 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
24614 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
24615 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
24616 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
24617 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
24618 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
24619 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
24620 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
24621 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24622 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
24623 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
24624 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24625 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
24626 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
24627 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
24629 o Security and stability fixes:
24630 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
24631 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
24632 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
24633 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
24634 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
24635 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
24636 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
24637 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
24638 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
24639 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
24640 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
24641 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
24642 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24643 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
24644 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
24645 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
24648 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
24649 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
24650 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
24651 contributions to the network.
24653 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
24654 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
24655 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
24656 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
24657 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
24658 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
24659 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
24660 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
24661 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
24662 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
24663 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
24664 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
24665 connections to directory servers.
24666 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
24667 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
24668 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
24669 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
24670 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
24671 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
24672 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
24673 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
24674 information, or fetch directory information.
24675 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
24676 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
24677 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
24678 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
24679 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
24680 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
24681 unless you really want your Tor to break.
24682 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
24683 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
24684 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
24685 - When StrictNodes is 1:
24686 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
24687 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
24688 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
24689 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
24690 reachability self-tests.
24691 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
24692 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
24693 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
24694 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
24695 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
24696 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
24697 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
24699 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
24700 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24701 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
24702 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
24703 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
24704 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
24705 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
24706 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
24707 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
24708 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
24709 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
24712 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
24713 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
24714 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
24715 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
24716 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
24717 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
24718 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
24719 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
24720 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
24721 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
24722 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
24723 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24724 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
24725 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
24726 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24727 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
24728 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
24730 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
24731 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
24732 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
24733 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
24734 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24735 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
24736 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24737 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
24738 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
24739 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
24740 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
24741 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
24742 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
24743 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
24744 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
24745 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24746 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
24747 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
24748 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
24749 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
24752 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
24753 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
24754 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
24755 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
24756 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
24757 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
24758 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
24759 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
24760 Required by fix for bug 3000.
24761 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
24762 by fix for bug 3000.
24763 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
24764 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
24766 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24767 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
24768 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
24769 send a body too). Since only server versions before
24770 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
24771 keep the workaround in place.
24772 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
24773 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
24774 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
24775 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
24776 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
24777 want to do it differently.
24778 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
24779 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
24780 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
24781 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
24782 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
24786 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
24787 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
24788 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
24789 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
24790 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
24793 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
24794 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
24795 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
24796 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
24797 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
24799 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
24800 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
24801 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
24802 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
24803 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
24804 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
24805 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
24806 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
24807 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
24808 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
24809 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
24810 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
24813 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
24814 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
24815 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
24816 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
24817 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
24818 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
24819 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
24821 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
24822 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
24823 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
24824 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
24825 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
24826 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
24827 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
24828 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
24829 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
24830 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
24831 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
24832 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
24833 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
24834 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
24835 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
24836 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
24837 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
24838 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
24839 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
24840 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
24841 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
24842 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
24843 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24846 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
24847 networkstatus vote.
24848 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
24849 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
24850 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
24852 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
24853 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
24854 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
24855 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
24857 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
24858 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
24859 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
24860 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24863 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
24864 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
24866 o Documentation changes:
24867 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
24868 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
24870 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
24873 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
24874 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
24875 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
24876 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
24877 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
24878 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
24881 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24882 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
24883 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
24884 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
24885 the rest of bug 1074.
24886 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
24887 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
24888 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24889 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
24890 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
24891 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
24892 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24893 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
24894 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
24895 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
24896 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
24897 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
24898 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
24899 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24902 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
24903 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
24904 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
24905 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
24906 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
24907 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
24908 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
24909 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
24910 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
24911 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
24912 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
24913 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
24914 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
24915 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
24917 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
24918 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
24919 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
24920 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
24921 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
24922 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
24924 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
24925 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
24926 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
24927 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
24928 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
24929 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
24930 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
24931 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
24932 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
24933 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24934 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
24935 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
24936 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
24937 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
24938 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
24939 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
24940 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
24941 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
24942 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
24943 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
24944 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
24945 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
24946 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
24947 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24948 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
24949 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
24951 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
24952 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
24953 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
24954 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
24955 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
24956 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
24958 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
24959 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
24960 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
24962 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
24963 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
24964 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
24965 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
24966 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
24967 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
24968 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
24969 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
24970 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
24971 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
24972 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
24973 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
24974 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
24978 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
24979 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
24980 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
24981 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
24982 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
24983 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
24984 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
24985 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
24986 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
24987 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
24988 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
24989 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
24991 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24993 o Minor features (log subsystem):
24994 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
24995 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
24996 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
24998 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
24999 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
25001 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
25002 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
25003 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
25006 o Packaging changes:
25007 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
25008 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
25009 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
25012 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
25013 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
25014 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
25015 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
25016 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
25017 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
25020 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
25021 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
25022 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
25023 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
25024 the rest of bug 1074.
25025 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
25026 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25027 Found by "piebeer".
25028 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
25029 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
25030 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
25031 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
25032 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
25033 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
25034 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25037 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
25039 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25042 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
25043 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
25044 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
25045 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
25046 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
25047 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
25048 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
25049 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
25050 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
25051 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
25052 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25054 o Packaging changes:
25055 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
25056 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
25057 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
25058 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
25059 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
25060 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
25063 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
25064 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
25065 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
25066 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
25067 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
25068 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
25071 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
25072 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25073 Found by "piebeer".
25074 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
25075 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
25076 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
25077 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
25080 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
25082 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
25083 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
25084 Implements ticket 2432.
25087 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
25088 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
25089 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
25092 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
25093 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
25094 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
25095 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
25096 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
25097 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
25099 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
25100 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
25101 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
25102 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
25104 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
25105 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
25106 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
25107 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
25108 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
25109 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
25110 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
25111 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
25113 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
25114 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
25115 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
25116 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
25117 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
25118 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
25119 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
25120 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
25121 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
25122 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
25123 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
25124 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
25125 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
25126 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
25129 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
25130 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
25131 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
25132 bug reported by doorss.
25133 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
25134 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
25135 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25136 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
25137 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
25139 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
25140 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
25141 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
25142 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
25143 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25145 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
25146 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25147 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
25149 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
25150 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
25151 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
25152 Automake 1.7 or later.
25153 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
25154 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
25155 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
25156 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
25158 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
25159 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
25160 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
25163 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
25164 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
25165 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
25166 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
25168 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
25169 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
25170 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
25171 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
25172 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
25173 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
25174 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
25175 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
25176 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
25178 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
25179 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
25180 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
25183 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
25184 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
25185 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
25186 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
25187 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
25188 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
25189 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
25190 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
25191 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
25192 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
25193 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
25194 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
25195 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
25197 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
25198 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
25202 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
25203 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
25204 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
25205 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
25206 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
25208 o Major bugfixes (security):
25209 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
25210 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
25211 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
25213 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
25214 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
25215 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
25216 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
25217 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
25218 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
25219 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
25220 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
25222 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25223 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
25224 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
25225 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
25226 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
25227 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
25228 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
25229 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
25230 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
25231 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
25232 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
25233 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
25234 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
25235 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
25238 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25239 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
25240 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
25241 bug reported by doorss.
25242 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
25243 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
25244 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25245 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
25246 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
25248 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
25249 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
25250 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
25251 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
25252 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25253 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
25254 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
25255 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
25256 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
25259 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25260 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
25263 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
25264 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
25265 Automake 1.7 or later.
25268 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
25269 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
25270 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
25271 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
25272 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
25275 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
25276 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
25277 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
25278 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
25279 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
25280 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
25281 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
25282 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
25283 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
25284 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
25285 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
25287 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
25288 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
25289 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
25290 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
25292 o Directory authority changes:
25293 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
25296 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
25297 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
25298 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
25299 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
25300 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
25301 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
25302 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
25303 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
25304 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
25307 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25308 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
25309 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
25310 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
25311 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
25312 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
25313 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
25314 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
25315 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
25316 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
25320 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
25321 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
25322 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
25323 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
25327 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
25328 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
25329 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
25330 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
25332 o Directory authority changes:
25333 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
25336 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25339 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
25340 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
25341 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
25342 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
25343 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
25346 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
25347 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
25348 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
25349 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
25350 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
25351 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
25352 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
25353 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
25354 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
25355 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25356 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
25357 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
25358 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
25359 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
25360 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
25361 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
25362 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
25363 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
25364 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
25365 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
25366 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
25367 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
25368 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
25371 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
25372 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
25373 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
25374 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
25376 o New directory authorities:
25377 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
25381 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
25382 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
25383 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
25385 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
25386 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
25387 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
25388 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
25389 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
25390 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
25392 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
25393 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
25394 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
25397 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
25398 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
25399 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
25400 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
25401 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
25402 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
25403 Patch from mingw-san.
25406 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
25407 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
25408 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
25409 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
25410 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
25411 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
25414 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
25415 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
25416 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
25419 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
25420 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
25421 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
25422 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
25423 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
25426 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
25427 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
25428 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
25429 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
25430 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
25431 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
25432 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
25433 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
25434 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
25437 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
25438 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
25439 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
25440 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
25441 to a stable release.
25444 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
25445 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
25446 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
25447 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
25448 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
25449 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
25450 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
25451 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
25452 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25453 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
25454 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
25455 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
25456 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
25457 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
25458 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
25459 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
25460 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
25461 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
25462 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
25463 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
25464 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
25465 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
25466 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
25467 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
25468 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
25469 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
25470 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
25471 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
25472 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
25473 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
25474 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
25477 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
25478 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
25479 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
25480 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
25481 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
25482 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
25483 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
25484 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
25485 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
25486 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
25487 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
25488 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
25489 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
25490 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25491 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
25492 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
25493 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
25495 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
25496 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
25497 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
25498 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
25499 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
25501 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
25502 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
25503 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
25504 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
25507 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
25508 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
25509 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
25510 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
25511 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
25512 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
25513 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
25514 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25516 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25517 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
25518 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
25519 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
25520 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
25521 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
25522 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
25523 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
25524 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
25525 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
25526 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
25527 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
25528 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
25529 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
25530 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
25533 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
25534 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
25535 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
25536 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
25537 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
25538 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
25539 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
25540 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
25541 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
25544 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
25545 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
25546 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
25547 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
25548 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
25550 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
25551 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
25552 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
25553 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
25554 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
25555 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
25556 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
25557 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
25558 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
25559 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
25560 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
25561 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
25562 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
25563 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
25565 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
25566 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
25568 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
25569 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
25570 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
25571 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
25572 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
25573 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
25574 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
25575 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
25576 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
25577 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
25578 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
25579 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
25580 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
25581 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
25582 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
25583 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
25584 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
25585 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
25587 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
25588 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
25589 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
25590 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
25591 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
25592 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
25593 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
25594 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
25595 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
25596 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
25597 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
25598 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
25599 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
25601 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
25602 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
25603 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
25604 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
25607 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
25608 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
25609 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
25610 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
25611 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
25612 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
25613 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
25614 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
25615 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
25616 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
25617 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
25618 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
25619 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
25620 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
25621 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
25622 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
25623 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
25624 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
25625 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
25628 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
25629 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
25630 based on the time during which we were active and not in
25631 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
25632 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
25633 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
25634 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
25635 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
25637 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
25638 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
25639 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
25640 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
25641 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
25642 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
25643 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
25644 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
25645 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
25646 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
25649 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
25650 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
25651 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
25652 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
25654 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
25655 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
25656 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
25657 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
25658 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
25659 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
25660 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
25661 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
25662 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
25663 the longest-lived bug prize.
25664 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
25665 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
25666 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
25667 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
25668 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
25669 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
25671 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
25672 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
25673 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
25674 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
25675 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
25676 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
25680 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25681 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
25682 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
25683 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
25684 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
25685 got suppressed since the last warning.
25686 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
25687 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
25688 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
25689 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
25690 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
25691 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
25692 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
25693 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
25694 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
25695 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
25696 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
25697 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
25698 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
25699 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
25700 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
25701 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
25702 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
25703 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
25704 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
25706 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
25707 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
25708 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
25710 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
25711 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
25712 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
25713 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
25714 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
25715 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
25716 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
25717 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
25718 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
25719 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
25720 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
25721 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
25722 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
25723 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
25724 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
25726 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
25727 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
25728 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
25729 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
25730 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
25731 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25732 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
25734 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
25735 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
25736 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
25737 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
25738 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
25741 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
25742 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
25743 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
25744 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
25745 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
25746 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
25747 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
25748 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
25749 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
25750 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
25751 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
25752 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
25753 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
25754 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
25755 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
25756 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
25757 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
25758 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
25761 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
25764 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
25765 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
25766 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
25767 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
25768 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
25772 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
25773 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
25774 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
25775 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
25776 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
25777 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
25778 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
25779 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
25780 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
25781 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
25782 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
25783 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
25784 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
25785 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
25786 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
25787 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
25788 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
25791 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
25792 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
25793 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
25794 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
25795 they first get the Guard flag.
25796 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
25800 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25801 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
25802 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
25803 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
25804 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
25805 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
25806 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
25807 Patch from mingw-san.
25808 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
25809 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
25811 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
25812 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
25813 Implements enhancement 1790.
25815 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
25816 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
25817 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
25818 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
25819 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
25820 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
25821 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
25822 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
25823 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
25824 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
25825 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
25826 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
25827 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
25828 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
25829 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
25830 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
25831 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
25832 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
25833 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
25834 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
25836 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
25837 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
25838 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
25839 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
25840 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
25841 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
25842 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
25843 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
25844 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
25845 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
25846 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
25847 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
25848 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
25850 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
25851 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
25852 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
25853 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
25854 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
25855 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25857 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
25858 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
25859 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
25860 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
25861 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
25862 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
25863 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
25864 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25865 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
25866 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
25867 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
25868 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
25870 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
25871 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
25872 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
25873 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
25874 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
25875 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
25876 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
25878 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
25880 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
25881 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
25882 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
25883 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
25884 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
25885 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
25887 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25888 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
25889 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
25890 structures and defines in or.h for now.
25891 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
25892 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
25893 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
25894 statistics code to be more easily tested.
25895 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
25896 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
25897 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
25900 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
25901 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
25902 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
25903 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
25904 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
25905 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
25909 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
25910 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
25911 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
25912 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
25913 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
25914 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
25915 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
25916 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
25917 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
25918 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
25919 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
25920 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
25921 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
25923 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
25924 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
25925 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
25926 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
25927 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
25928 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
25929 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
25930 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
25931 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
25932 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
25933 can be controlled by the consensus.
25936 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
25937 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
25938 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
25939 more accurate data for many African countries.
25940 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
25941 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
25942 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
25943 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
25944 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
25945 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
25946 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
25947 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
25948 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
25949 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
25950 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
25951 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
25953 o New directory authorities:
25954 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
25958 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
25959 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
25960 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
25961 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
25962 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
25963 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
25964 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
25965 what should go in a patch.
25966 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
25967 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
25968 over our stored history.
25969 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
25970 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
25971 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
25972 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
25973 file. Fixes bug 1296.
25974 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
25975 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
25976 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
25980 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
25982 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
25983 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
25984 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
25985 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
25986 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
25987 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
25988 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
25989 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
25990 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
25991 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
25992 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
25993 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25994 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
25995 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
25996 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
25997 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
25998 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
25999 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
26000 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
26001 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
26002 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
26003 two-hop circuits are actually created.
26004 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
26005 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26006 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
26007 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26010 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
26011 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
26012 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
26013 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
26014 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
26016 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
26017 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
26020 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
26021 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
26022 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
26023 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
26024 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
26025 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
26026 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
26027 their directory fetches over TLS).
26028 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
26029 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
26030 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
26031 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
26032 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
26033 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
26034 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
26035 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
26038 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
26039 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
26043 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
26044 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26045 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
26046 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
26047 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
26048 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
26049 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26052 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
26053 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
26054 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
26055 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
26056 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
26059 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
26060 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
26061 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
26062 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
26063 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
26064 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
26065 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
26066 their directory fetches over TLS).
26069 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
26070 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
26072 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
26073 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
26074 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
26075 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
26076 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
26077 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
26078 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
26079 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
26080 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
26081 hour of their uptime.
26084 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
26085 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
26086 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
26090 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
26091 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
26092 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
26093 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
26094 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
26095 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
26097 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
26098 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
26099 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
26101 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
26102 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
26106 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
26107 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
26108 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
26112 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
26113 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
26114 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
26117 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
26118 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
26119 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
26120 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
26121 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
26122 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
26123 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
26124 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
26125 about the option without breaking older ones.
26126 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
26127 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
26128 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
26129 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
26132 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
26133 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
26134 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
26135 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
26137 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
26138 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
26139 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
26142 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
26143 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
26145 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
26146 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
26147 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
26148 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
26149 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
26150 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
26151 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26152 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
26153 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
26154 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
26155 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
26158 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
26159 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26160 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
26161 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
26162 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
26163 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
26164 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26167 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
26168 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
26169 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
26170 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
26171 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
26172 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
26175 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
26176 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
26177 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
26178 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
26180 o Major features (performance):
26181 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
26182 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
26183 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
26184 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
26185 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
26186 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
26187 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
26189 o Minor features (performance):
26190 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
26191 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
26192 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
26193 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
26194 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
26198 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
26199 speeds up the build considerably.
26201 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
26202 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
26203 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26204 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
26205 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26206 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
26207 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
26208 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26210 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
26211 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
26212 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
26214 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
26215 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
26216 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
26217 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
26219 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26220 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
26221 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
26222 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
26223 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
26224 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
26227 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
26228 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
26229 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
26231 o Directory authority changes:
26232 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
26233 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
26234 service directory authority) from the list.
26237 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
26238 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
26239 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
26240 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
26241 libraries in a security patch.
26242 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
26243 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
26244 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
26245 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
26247 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
26248 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
26249 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
26250 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
26251 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
26252 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
26253 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
26256 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
26257 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
26258 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
26259 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
26260 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
26261 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
26262 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
26263 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
26264 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
26265 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
26266 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
26267 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
26268 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
26270 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
26271 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
26272 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
26273 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
26274 control-spec.txt said they were.
26275 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
26276 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
26277 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
26278 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
26279 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26281 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26282 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
26283 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
26284 produce nicer HTML.
26285 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
26286 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
26287 iPhone SDK versions.
26288 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
26289 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
26290 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
26291 projects directory in svn.
26292 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
26293 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
26294 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
26295 high latency links.
26298 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
26299 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
26300 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
26302 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
26303 to the circuit build timeout.
26304 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
26305 arguments we do not recognize.
26306 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
26307 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
26308 open() without checking it.
26311 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
26312 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
26313 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
26314 several minor potential security bugs.
26317 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
26318 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
26319 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
26320 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
26321 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
26322 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
26323 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
26326 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
26327 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
26329 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
26330 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
26331 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
26332 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
26336 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
26337 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
26341 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
26342 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
26343 customized patches to run/build.
26346 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
26347 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
26348 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
26351 o Major bugfixes (performance):
26352 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
26353 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
26354 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
26355 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
26356 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
26357 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
26358 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
26361 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
26362 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
26363 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
26364 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
26365 libraries in a security patch.
26366 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
26367 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
26368 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
26369 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
26372 o Directory authority changes:
26373 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
26374 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
26375 service directory authority) from the list.
26378 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
26379 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
26382 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
26383 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
26384 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
26385 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
26386 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
26389 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
26390 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
26391 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
26395 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
26396 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
26397 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
26398 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
26399 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26402 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
26403 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
26404 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
26408 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
26409 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
26410 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
26411 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
26412 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
26414 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
26415 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
26417 o Directory authority changes:
26418 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
26421 o Major features (performance):
26422 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
26423 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
26424 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
26425 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
26426 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
26427 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
26428 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
26429 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
26430 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
26431 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
26432 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
26433 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
26434 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
26436 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
26437 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
26438 but never per-conn write limits.
26439 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
26440 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
26441 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
26442 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
26444 o Major features (relay selection options):
26445 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
26446 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
26447 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
26448 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
26449 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
26450 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
26451 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
26453 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
26454 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
26456 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
26457 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
26458 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
26459 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
26460 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
26461 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
26462 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
26463 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
26464 the network changes.
26467 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
26468 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
26469 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26472 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
26473 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
26474 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
26475 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
26476 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
26477 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
26478 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
26479 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
26480 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
26481 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
26482 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
26483 generated while acting as a relay.
26484 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
26485 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
26486 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
26487 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
26488 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
26489 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
26491 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
26492 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
26493 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26494 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
26495 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
26496 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
26499 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
26500 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
26501 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
26503 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
26504 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
26505 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
26507 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
26508 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
26510 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
26511 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
26512 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
26514 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
26515 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
26518 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26519 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
26520 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
26521 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
26522 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
26523 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
26524 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
26525 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
26526 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
26528 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
26531 o Removed features:
26532 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
26533 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
26534 hidden service usage.
26537 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
26538 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
26539 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
26540 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
26541 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
26543 o Directory authority changes:
26544 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
26548 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
26549 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
26550 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26553 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
26554 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
26555 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
26556 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
26557 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
26560 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
26561 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
26562 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
26563 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
26564 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
26565 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
26566 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
26569 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
26570 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
26571 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26572 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
26573 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
26574 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
26576 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
26577 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
26580 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
26581 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
26582 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
26583 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
26584 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
26585 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
26588 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
26589 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
26590 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
26592 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
26593 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
26594 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
26595 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
26596 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
26597 download consensus + microdescriptors".
26598 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
26599 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
26600 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
26601 hash algorithm in the future.
26602 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
26603 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
26604 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
26605 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
26606 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
26607 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
26608 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
26609 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
26610 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
26613 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
26614 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
26615 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
26616 won't work unless we say we are.
26619 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
26620 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
26621 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
26622 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
26623 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
26624 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
26625 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
26626 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
26627 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26628 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
26629 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
26630 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
26631 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
26632 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
26633 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
26634 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
26635 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
26636 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
26637 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
26638 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
26639 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
26640 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
26643 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
26644 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
26645 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
26646 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
26648 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
26649 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
26651 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
26652 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
26653 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
26654 in the Vidalia Settings window.
26657 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
26658 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
26659 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
26660 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
26661 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
26663 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
26664 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
26666 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
26667 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
26668 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
26671 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
26672 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
26673 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
26675 o New directory authorities:
26676 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
26678 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
26681 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
26682 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
26684 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
26685 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
26686 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26687 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
26688 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
26689 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
26690 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26691 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
26692 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
26693 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
26694 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
26695 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
26696 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
26697 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
26698 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
26699 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
26700 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
26702 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
26703 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
26704 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
26706 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
26707 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
26711 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
26712 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
26713 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
26714 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
26715 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
26718 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
26719 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
26722 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
26724 o Directory authorities:
26725 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
26729 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
26730 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
26731 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
26732 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
26733 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
26736 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
26737 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
26738 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
26739 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
26741 o New directory authorities:
26742 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
26745 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
26746 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
26747 SSL handshake issues.
26748 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
26749 during the TLS handshake.
26750 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
26751 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
26752 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
26753 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
26754 none of which are very big.
26757 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
26759 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
26760 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26761 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
26762 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
26763 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26764 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
26765 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
26766 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
26769 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26770 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
26771 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
26772 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
26773 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
26776 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
26777 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26780 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
26781 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
26784 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
26785 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
26786 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26789 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
26790 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
26791 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
26792 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
26793 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
26794 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
26797 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
26798 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
26799 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
26800 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
26801 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
26802 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
26803 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
26804 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
26805 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
26806 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
26807 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
26808 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
26809 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
26810 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
26811 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
26812 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
26813 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
26814 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
26817 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
26818 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
26822 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
26823 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
26824 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26825 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
26826 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
26827 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
26828 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26829 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
26830 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
26831 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
26832 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26833 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
26834 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
26835 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
26836 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
26837 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
26838 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
26839 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
26840 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
26841 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
26842 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
26844 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
26845 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
26846 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
26847 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
26848 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
26849 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
26851 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
26852 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
26853 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
26856 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
26857 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
26858 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
26859 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
26860 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
26861 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
26864 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
26865 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
26866 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
26867 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
26868 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
26871 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
26872 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
26873 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
26876 o New directory authorities:
26877 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
26881 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
26882 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
26883 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
26884 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
26885 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
26888 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
26889 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
26890 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
26891 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
26892 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
26895 o New options for gathering stats safely:
26896 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
26897 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
26898 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
26899 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
26900 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
26901 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
26902 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
26903 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
26904 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
26906 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
26907 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
26908 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
26909 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
26911 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
26912 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
26913 their extra-info documents.
26916 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
26917 source files Tor was built with.
26918 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
26919 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
26920 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
26921 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
26922 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
26923 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
26925 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
26926 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
26927 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
26928 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
26929 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
26931 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
26932 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
26935 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
26936 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
26937 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
26938 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
26939 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
26941 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
26942 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
26944 o Deprecated and removed features:
26945 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
26946 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
26947 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
26948 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
26949 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
26950 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
26951 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
26952 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
26954 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
26955 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
26956 via application-level web tricks.
26958 o Packaging changes:
26959 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
26960 installer bundles. See
26961 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
26962 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
26963 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
26964 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
26965 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
26966 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
26967 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
26968 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
26969 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
26970 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
26971 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
26972 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
26975 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
26976 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
26977 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
26980 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
26981 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
26982 part of patch provided by "optimist".
26985 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
26986 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
26987 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
26988 and confuse fewer users.
26991 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
26992 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
26993 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
26994 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
26995 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
26996 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
26997 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
27000 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
27001 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
27002 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
27003 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
27004 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
27005 other features and bug fixes.
27008 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
27011 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
27012 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
27013 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
27014 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
27015 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
27018 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
27019 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
27020 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
27021 failure message (oops).
27024 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
27025 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
27026 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
27027 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
27031 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
27032 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
27033 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
27034 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
27035 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
27036 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
27037 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27038 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
27039 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
27040 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
27041 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
27042 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
27043 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
27044 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
27045 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
27048 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
27049 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
27050 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
27051 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
27052 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
27053 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
27054 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
27055 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
27056 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
27057 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
27058 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
27059 Workaround for bug 1024.
27060 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
27064 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
27065 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
27066 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
27069 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
27071 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
27072 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
27073 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
27074 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
27075 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
27078 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
27079 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
27080 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
27081 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
27082 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
27083 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
27084 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
27085 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
27086 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
27087 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
27090 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
27091 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
27092 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
27093 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
27094 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
27095 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
27096 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
27097 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
27100 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
27101 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
27102 a bunch of minor bugs.
27105 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
27106 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
27107 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
27109 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
27110 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
27111 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
27112 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
27114 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
27118 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
27119 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
27120 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
27122 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
27123 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
27125 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
27126 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
27128 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
27129 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
27130 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
27131 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
27132 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
27133 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
27134 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
27135 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
27137 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
27138 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
27139 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
27141 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
27142 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
27143 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
27144 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
27145 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
27149 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
27150 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
27151 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
27152 of more minor bugs.
27154 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
27155 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
27156 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
27157 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
27159 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
27160 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
27161 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
27162 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
27163 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
27164 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
27165 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
27166 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
27167 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
27168 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
27169 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
27170 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27171 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
27172 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
27173 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
27174 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
27175 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
27177 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
27178 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
27179 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
27180 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27182 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
27183 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
27184 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
27187 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
27188 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
27189 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
27190 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
27191 addresses to fall out of the directory.
27194 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
27195 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
27196 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
27197 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
27199 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
27200 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
27201 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
27202 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
27203 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
27204 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
27205 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
27206 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
27207 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
27208 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
27209 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
27210 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
27211 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
27212 patch by Sebastian.
27213 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
27214 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
27217 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
27218 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
27219 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
27220 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
27221 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
27222 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
27224 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
27225 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
27226 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
27227 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
27228 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
27230 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
27233 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
27234 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
27236 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
27237 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
27238 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27239 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27240 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
27241 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
27243 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
27244 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27245 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
27246 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
27247 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
27248 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
27249 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
27250 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
27251 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
27252 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
27253 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
27254 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
27258 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
27259 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
27260 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
27263 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
27264 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
27265 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27267 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
27268 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
27269 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
27270 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
27271 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
27272 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
27273 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
27274 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
27275 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
27276 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
27277 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
27278 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
27279 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
27280 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
27281 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
27282 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
27283 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
27284 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
27285 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
27286 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
27287 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
27288 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
27289 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
27290 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
27291 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
27292 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
27294 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
27295 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
27296 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
27297 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
27298 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
27299 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
27300 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
27301 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
27302 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
27303 of 0. Suggested by lark.
27305 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
27306 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
27307 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
27308 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
27309 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
27312 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
27314 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
27315 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
27316 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
27317 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
27320 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
27321 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
27322 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
27323 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
27324 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
27326 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
27327 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
27328 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
27329 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
27332 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
27333 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
27334 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
27335 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
27336 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
27337 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
27338 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
27339 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
27342 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
27343 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
27344 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
27345 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
27348 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
27349 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
27350 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
27351 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
27352 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
27353 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
27356 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
27357 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
27358 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
27359 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
27360 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
27361 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
27364 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
27365 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
27366 reported by Matt Edman.
27367 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
27369 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
27370 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
27371 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
27372 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
27374 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
27375 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
27376 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
27377 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27378 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
27379 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
27380 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
27381 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
27382 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
27383 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
27384 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
27385 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
27386 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
27387 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
27388 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
27389 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
27390 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
27391 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
27392 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27395 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
27396 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
27397 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
27398 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
27401 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
27402 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
27403 the letter of C99's alias rules.
27406 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
27407 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
27408 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
27409 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
27411 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
27412 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
27413 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
27416 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
27417 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
27420 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
27421 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
27422 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
27423 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
27424 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
27425 reported by "wood".
27426 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
27427 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
27428 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
27429 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
27430 identify a connection.
27431 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
27432 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
27433 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
27434 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
27435 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
27436 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
27437 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
27438 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
27439 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
27440 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
27442 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
27443 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
27444 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
27445 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
27446 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
27447 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
27448 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
27451 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
27452 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
27454 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
27455 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
27456 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
27457 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
27458 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
27459 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
27460 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27461 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
27463 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
27464 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
27465 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
27466 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
27467 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
27468 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
27469 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
27470 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
27471 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
27472 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
27473 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
27474 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
27475 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
27476 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
27477 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
27478 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
27479 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
27480 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
27481 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
27482 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
27483 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
27484 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
27485 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
27486 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
27487 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
27488 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
27489 840. Patch from rovv.
27490 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
27491 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
27492 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
27494 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
27495 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
27496 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
27497 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
27498 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
27499 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
27500 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
27502 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
27503 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
27504 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
27507 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
27508 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
27510 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
27511 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
27512 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
27513 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
27514 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
27515 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
27516 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
27517 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
27518 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
27520 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
27522 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
27523 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
27527 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
27528 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
27529 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
27530 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
27531 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
27532 have had some time to upgrade.)
27535 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
27536 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
27539 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
27540 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
27541 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
27542 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
27543 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
27546 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
27547 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
27549 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
27550 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
27551 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
27552 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
27553 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
27554 entirely. Patch from coderman.
27557 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
27558 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
27559 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
27560 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
27561 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
27562 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27563 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
27567 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
27568 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
27569 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
27570 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
27571 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
27572 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
27573 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
27576 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
27577 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
27578 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
27579 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
27580 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
27582 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
27583 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
27584 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
27585 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
27586 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
27587 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
27588 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
27589 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
27590 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
27591 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
27595 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
27596 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
27597 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
27599 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
27600 without support for deprecated functions.
27601 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
27603 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
27604 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
27605 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
27606 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
27607 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27608 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
27609 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
27610 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
27611 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
27612 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
27613 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
27614 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
27615 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
27616 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
27617 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
27618 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
27619 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
27620 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
27621 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
27622 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
27623 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
27624 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
27625 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
27627 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
27628 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
27629 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
27630 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
27631 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
27632 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
27634 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
27635 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
27636 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
27637 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
27638 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
27640 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
27641 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
27642 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
27644 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
27645 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
27648 o Deprecated and removed features:
27649 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
27650 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
27651 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
27654 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27655 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
27656 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
27657 with log.h on Android.
27658 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
27659 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
27662 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
27663 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
27665 o New directory authorities:
27666 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
27670 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
27671 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
27672 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
27673 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
27674 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
27675 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27678 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
27679 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
27680 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
27681 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
27682 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
27683 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
27684 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
27685 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
27686 reported by "wood".
27687 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
27688 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
27689 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
27690 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
27693 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
27694 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
27696 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
27697 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
27698 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
27699 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
27700 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
27701 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
27702 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
27703 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
27704 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
27705 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
27706 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
27707 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
27708 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
27709 Implements proposal 148.
27710 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
27711 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
27712 system to do it for us.
27713 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
27714 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
27715 this fix will be slightly helpful.
27716 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
27717 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
27718 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
27719 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
27720 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
27721 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
27722 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
27723 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
27724 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
27727 o Minor features (controller):
27728 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
27729 been fetched and validated.
27730 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
27731 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
27732 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
27733 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
27734 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
27735 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
27738 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
27739 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
27740 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
27741 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
27742 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
27744 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
27745 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
27746 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
27747 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
27748 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
27749 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
27750 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
27751 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
27752 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
27754 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
27755 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
27756 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
27757 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
27758 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
27759 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
27760 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
27761 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
27763 o Deprecated and removed features:
27764 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
27766 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
27767 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
27768 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
27770 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27771 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
27772 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
27774 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
27775 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
27776 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
27777 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
27778 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
27779 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
27782 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
27783 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
27784 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
27785 fixes a variety of other issues.
27788 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
27789 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
27790 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
27791 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
27794 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
27795 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
27796 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
27797 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
27800 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
27801 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27802 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
27806 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
27808 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
27809 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
27810 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
27811 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
27812 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
27813 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
27814 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
27816 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
27817 rest, and don't automatically fail.
27818 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
27819 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
27820 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
27821 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
27823 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
27824 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
27825 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
27826 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
27827 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
27828 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
27829 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
27830 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
27831 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
27832 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
27834 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
27838 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
27839 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
27840 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
27842 o Minor features (controller):
27843 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
27847 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
27848 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
27849 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
27850 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
27851 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
27852 variety of other issues.
27855 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
27856 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
27857 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
27858 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
27859 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
27860 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
27861 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
27862 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
27863 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
27864 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
27865 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
27866 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
27869 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
27870 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27872 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
27873 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
27874 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
27875 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
27876 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
27877 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
27878 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27879 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
27880 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
27881 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
27882 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
27883 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
27884 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
27885 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
27886 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
27890 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
27891 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
27892 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
27893 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
27894 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
27895 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
27896 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
27897 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
27898 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
27899 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
27900 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
27901 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
27902 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
27903 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
27904 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
27905 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
27906 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
27907 list. It has been gone for many months.
27908 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
27909 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
27910 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
27913 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
27914 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
27915 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
27918 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
27919 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
27920 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
27921 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
27922 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
27923 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
27924 variety of other issues.
27927 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
27928 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
27929 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
27930 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
27931 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
27932 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
27933 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
27934 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
27935 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
27936 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
27937 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
27938 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
27939 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
27940 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
27943 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
27944 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
27945 Suggested by Lucky Green.
27946 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
27947 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
27948 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
27949 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
27950 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
27951 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
27953 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
27954 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
27956 o Hidden service performance improvements:
27957 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
27958 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
27959 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
27960 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
27961 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
27962 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
27963 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
27964 faster after restart.
27967 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
27968 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
27969 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
27970 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
27971 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
27972 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
27973 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
27974 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
27975 840. Patch from rovv.
27976 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
27977 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
27978 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
27979 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
27980 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
27981 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
27982 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
27983 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
27984 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
27986 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
27987 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
27988 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
27989 have already been marked for close.
27990 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
27991 introduction points.
27992 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
27993 memory performance during directory parsing.
27994 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
27995 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
27996 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
27997 because of a pending download.
28000 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
28001 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
28002 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
28003 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
28006 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
28007 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
28008 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
28009 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
28010 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
28011 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
28012 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
28013 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
28014 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
28015 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
28016 lookups more reliable.
28017 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
28018 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
28019 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
28020 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
28021 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
28022 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
28023 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
28026 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
28027 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
28028 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28029 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
28030 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
28031 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
28032 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
28033 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
28034 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
28035 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
28036 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
28038 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
28039 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
28040 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
28041 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
28042 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
28043 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28044 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
28045 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
28046 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28049 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
28050 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
28051 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
28052 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
28053 locked down these days.
28054 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
28055 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
28056 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
28057 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
28058 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
28060 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
28061 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
28062 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
28063 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
28064 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
28065 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
28066 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
28067 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
28068 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
28069 people find host:port too confusing.
28070 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
28071 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
28072 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
28075 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28077 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
28078 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
28079 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
28080 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
28081 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
28083 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
28084 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
28085 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
28086 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
28087 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
28088 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
28089 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
28090 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
28091 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
28092 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
28093 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
28094 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
28096 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
28097 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
28098 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
28099 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
28100 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
28101 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
28102 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
28103 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
28104 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
28106 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
28107 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
28108 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
28109 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
28110 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
28111 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28112 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
28113 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
28114 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
28115 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
28116 bug 820, reported by seeess.
28117 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
28118 list. It has been gone for many months.
28120 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28121 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
28122 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
28123 actual mistakes we're making here.
28124 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
28125 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
28126 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
28127 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
28130 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
28131 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
28132 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
28133 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
28136 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
28137 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
28138 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
28139 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
28140 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
28141 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
28143 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
28144 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
28145 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
28146 pointed out by rovv.
28149 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
28150 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28151 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
28152 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
28153 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
28154 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
28155 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
28156 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
28157 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
28158 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28159 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
28160 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
28161 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
28162 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
28163 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
28164 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
28165 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
28166 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
28167 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
28168 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
28169 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
28172 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
28173 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
28174 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
28175 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
28176 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
28177 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
28178 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
28181 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
28183 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
28184 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
28185 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
28186 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
28187 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
28188 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
28189 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
28191 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
28192 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
28193 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
28194 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
28195 known descriptor before building circuits.
28197 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
28198 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
28199 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
28200 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
28201 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
28202 identify a connection.
28203 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
28204 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
28205 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
28207 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
28208 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
28209 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
28210 pointed out by rovv.
28213 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
28214 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28215 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
28216 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
28217 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
28218 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
28219 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
28220 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
28221 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
28222 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
28223 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
28224 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
28225 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
28226 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
28227 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28230 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
28231 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
28232 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
28233 answer sections match.
28234 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
28235 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
28238 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
28239 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28242 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
28243 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
28244 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
28246 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
28247 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
28248 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28251 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
28252 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
28253 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
28254 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
28257 o Removed features:
28258 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
28259 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
28262 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
28263 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
28264 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
28265 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
28266 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
28267 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
28269 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
28270 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
28271 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
28274 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
28275 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
28276 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
28277 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
28278 be sent using an "early" cell.
28281 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
28282 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
28283 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
28284 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
28285 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
28286 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
28287 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
28290 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
28291 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
28292 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
28293 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
28294 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
28295 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
28296 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
28297 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
28298 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
28299 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
28300 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
28301 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
28302 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
28303 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
28304 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
28305 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
28308 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
28309 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
28310 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
28311 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
28312 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
28313 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
28314 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
28315 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
28316 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
28318 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
28319 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
28320 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
28321 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
28322 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
28325 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
28326 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
28327 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
28328 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
28330 o Removed features:
28331 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
28332 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
28336 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
28338 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
28339 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
28340 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
28343 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
28344 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
28345 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
28348 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
28349 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
28350 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
28351 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
28352 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28353 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
28354 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
28355 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
28356 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28357 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
28358 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
28359 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
28360 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
28361 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
28362 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
28363 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
28364 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
28365 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
28366 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
28367 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
28368 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
28369 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
28370 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
28373 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
28374 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
28376 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
28377 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
28378 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
28379 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
28380 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
28381 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
28382 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
28384 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
28385 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
28386 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
28387 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
28388 found by Geoff Goodell.
28391 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
28392 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
28393 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
28394 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
28395 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
28396 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
28399 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
28400 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
28401 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
28404 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
28405 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
28406 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
28407 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
28408 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28409 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
28410 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
28411 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
28412 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28413 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
28414 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
28415 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
28416 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
28417 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
28420 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
28421 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
28422 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
28424 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
28425 fingerprints with or without space.
28426 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
28427 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
28428 partway through and wants to catch up.
28429 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
28430 state to start out in.
28433 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
28434 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
28435 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
28436 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
28437 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
28440 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
28441 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
28442 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
28443 some of the connection attempts fail.
28444 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
28445 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
28446 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
28447 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
28448 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
28449 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
28451 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
28452 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
28453 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
28456 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
28457 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
28458 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
28459 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
28460 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
28461 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
28462 and adds a variety of smaller features.
28465 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
28466 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
28467 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
28468 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
28470 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
28471 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
28472 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
28473 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
28475 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
28476 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
28477 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
28478 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
28479 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
28480 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
28481 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
28484 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
28485 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
28486 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
28487 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
28488 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
28490 o Memory fixes and improvements:
28491 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
28492 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
28493 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
28494 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
28495 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
28496 on a typical directory cache.
28497 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
28498 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
28499 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
28500 and may reduce fragmentation.
28501 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
28502 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
28503 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
28505 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
28506 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
28507 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
28509 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
28510 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
28514 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
28515 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
28516 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
28517 done that for a long time.
28518 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
28519 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
28520 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
28521 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
28524 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
28525 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
28526 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
28527 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
28528 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
28529 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
28531 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
28532 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
28533 output to messages of warning and error severity.
28534 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
28535 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
28536 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
28537 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
28538 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
28539 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
28540 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
28541 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
28542 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
28543 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
28544 directory requests we should expect to see.
28545 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
28547 - Lots of new unit tests.
28548 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
28549 two parallel lists in lockstep.
28552 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
28553 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
28554 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
28557 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
28558 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
28559 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
28560 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
28561 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
28562 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
28563 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
28566 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
28567 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
28568 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
28572 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
28573 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
28574 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
28577 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
28578 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
28579 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
28581 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
28582 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
28584 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
28585 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
28586 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
28587 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
28588 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
28589 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
28590 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
28592 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
28593 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
28594 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
28595 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
28596 - Fix compile on Windows.
28599 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
28600 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
28601 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
28602 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
28603 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
28604 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
28605 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
28608 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
28609 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
28612 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
28613 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
28614 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
28615 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
28617 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
28618 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
28619 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
28622 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
28623 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
28624 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
28625 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
28629 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
28630 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
28631 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
28632 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
28634 o Major security fixes:
28635 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
28636 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
28637 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
28638 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
28639 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
28642 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
28643 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28646 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
28647 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
28650 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
28651 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
28654 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
28655 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
28656 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
28659 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
28660 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28663 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
28664 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
28665 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
28666 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
28667 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
28669 o New directory authorities:
28670 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
28671 it has been down for months.
28672 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
28676 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
28677 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
28679 o Minor features (security):
28680 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
28681 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
28682 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
28685 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
28686 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
28687 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
28688 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
28689 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
28690 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
28691 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
28692 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
28693 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
28695 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
28696 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
28697 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
28698 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
28699 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
28700 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
28701 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28702 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
28703 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
28705 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
28706 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
28707 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
28708 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
28709 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
28710 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
28711 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
28712 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
28713 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
28714 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
28715 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
28716 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
28717 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
28718 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
28719 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
28720 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
28721 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
28722 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
28723 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
28726 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
28727 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
28728 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
28729 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
28732 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
28733 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
28734 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
28735 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
28738 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
28739 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
28740 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
28741 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
28742 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
28745 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
28746 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
28747 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
28748 certain censored countries by default again.
28751 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
28752 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
28753 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
28754 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
28755 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
28756 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
28757 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
28758 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
28760 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
28761 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
28762 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
28763 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
28764 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
28765 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
28766 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
28767 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
28768 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
28769 a directory. Fix from lodger.
28771 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
28772 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
28773 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
28774 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
28775 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
28776 RelayBandwidth* values.
28777 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
28778 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
28779 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
28780 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
28781 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
28782 get_interface_address6().
28783 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
28784 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
28785 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
28787 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
28788 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
28789 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
28790 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28791 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
28792 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
28793 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
28794 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
28795 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
28796 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28799 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
28800 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
28801 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
28804 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
28805 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
28806 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
28807 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
28808 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
28811 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
28812 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
28813 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
28814 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
28815 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
28816 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
28817 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
28818 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
28819 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
28822 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
28823 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
28824 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
28825 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
28828 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
28829 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
28830 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
28831 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
28832 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
28833 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
28834 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
28837 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
28838 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
28839 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
28840 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
28841 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
28842 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
28843 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
28845 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
28846 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
28847 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
28848 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
28849 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
28852 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
28853 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
28854 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
28855 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
28856 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
28857 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
28858 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
28859 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
28860 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
28861 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
28862 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
28863 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
28864 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
28865 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
28866 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
28867 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28868 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
28869 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28870 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
28871 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
28872 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
28873 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
28874 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
28875 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
28876 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
28877 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
28879 o Minor features (performance):
28880 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
28882 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
28883 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
28884 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
28885 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
28886 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
28887 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
28888 non-system include paths.
28889 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
28890 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
28893 o Minor features (other):
28894 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
28896 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
28897 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
28898 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
28901 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
28902 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
28903 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
28904 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
28906 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
28907 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
28908 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
28909 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
28910 Should fix bug 537.
28911 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
28912 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
28913 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
28914 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
28915 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28917 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28918 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
28919 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
28920 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
28921 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
28922 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
28923 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
28924 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
28925 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
28926 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
28927 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
28928 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
28929 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
28930 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
28931 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
28932 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
28933 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
28934 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
28935 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
28936 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
28937 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
28938 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
28939 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
28940 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
28941 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
28944 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28945 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
28946 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
28950 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
28951 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
28952 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
28953 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
28954 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
28957 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
28958 Tor's x509 certificates.
28961 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
28962 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
28963 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
28964 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
28965 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
28966 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
28968 o Minor features (security):
28969 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
28970 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
28972 o Minor features (directory authority):
28973 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
28974 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
28975 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
28976 bandwidthburst values.
28978 o Minor features (controller):
28979 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
28980 processes from running us out of memory.
28982 o Minor features (misc):
28983 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
28984 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
28985 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
28986 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
28988 o Deprecated features (controller):
28989 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
28990 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
28991 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
28994 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
28995 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
28997 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
28998 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
28999 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29000 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
29001 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
29002 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29003 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
29004 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
29006 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
29007 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29008 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
29009 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29010 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
29011 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
29012 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
29013 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
29015 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
29016 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
29017 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
29018 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
29019 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29020 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
29021 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29022 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
29023 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29024 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
29025 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
29026 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29028 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29029 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
29031 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
29032 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
29033 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
29034 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
29035 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
29036 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
29039 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
29040 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
29041 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
29042 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
29043 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
29045 o New directory authorities:
29046 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
29050 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
29051 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
29052 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
29053 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
29054 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
29055 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
29056 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
29057 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
29061 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
29062 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
29063 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
29064 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
29065 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
29066 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
29067 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
29068 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
29069 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
29070 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
29073 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
29074 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
29075 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
29076 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
29080 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
29081 the request isn't encrypted.
29082 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
29083 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
29084 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
29085 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
29086 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
29089 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
29090 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
29093 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
29096 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
29097 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
29098 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
29100 o New directory authorities:
29101 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
29104 o Major performance improvements:
29105 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
29106 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
29107 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
29108 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
29109 memory fragmentation.
29112 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
29113 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
29114 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
29115 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
29116 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
29117 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
29118 bodies when they receive them.
29119 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
29120 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
29121 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
29123 o Minor performance improvements:
29124 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
29125 of them were actually distinct.
29126 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
29127 interested in a given message.
29130 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
29131 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
29132 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
29133 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
29134 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
29135 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
29136 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
29137 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
29138 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
29139 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
29140 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
29142 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
29143 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
29144 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
29145 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
29146 this country" and "1 person from this country".
29147 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
29148 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
29149 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
29150 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
29151 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
29153 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
29154 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
29155 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
29157 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
29158 but client versions are not.
29159 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
29160 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
29162 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
29163 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
29164 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
29165 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
29166 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
29168 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
29169 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
29170 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
29173 o Minor features (controller):
29174 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
29175 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
29176 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
29177 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
29179 o Minor features (directory authorities):
29180 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
29181 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
29182 running a test network on a single host.
29183 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
29184 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
29186 o Minor features (bridges):
29187 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
29188 unencrypted connections.
29190 o Minor features (other):
29191 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
29192 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
29193 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
29194 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
29197 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
29198 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
29199 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
29200 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
29203 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
29204 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
29205 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
29206 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
29207 on network address.
29210 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
29211 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
29212 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
29213 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
29214 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
29215 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
29216 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
29217 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
29218 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
29219 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
29220 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
29221 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
29224 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
29225 rebuild our server descriptor.
29226 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
29227 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
29228 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
29229 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
29230 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
29231 nonstandard integer types.
29232 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
29233 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
29234 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
29235 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
29236 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
29238 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
29239 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
29240 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
29241 when they receive them.
29242 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
29243 This includes some 64-bit systems.
29244 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
29245 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
29246 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
29247 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
29248 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
29249 router_get_by_hexdigest().
29250 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
29251 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
29255 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
29256 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
29257 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
29260 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
29261 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
29262 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
29263 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
29264 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
29265 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
29266 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
29267 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29270 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
29271 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
29272 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
29273 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
29275 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
29276 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
29279 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
29280 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
29283 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
29285 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
29286 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
29288 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
29289 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
29290 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
29291 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29292 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
29293 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
29294 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
29295 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
29296 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
29297 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
29301 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
29302 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
29303 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
29306 - Make the unit tests build again.
29307 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
29308 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
29309 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
29310 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
29311 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
29312 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29313 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
29314 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
29315 the next one as a duplicate.
29318 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
29319 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
29320 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
29321 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
29324 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
29325 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
29326 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
29329 o New directory authorities:
29330 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
29334 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
29335 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
29336 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
29337 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
29338 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
29339 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
29340 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
29342 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
29343 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
29345 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
29346 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
29347 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
29348 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
29349 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
29350 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
29352 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
29353 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
29354 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
29355 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
29356 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
29357 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29360 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
29361 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
29362 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
29363 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
29364 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
29365 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
29366 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
29367 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
29368 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
29369 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
29370 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
29371 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
29372 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
29373 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
29374 where Tor is blocked.
29375 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
29376 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
29377 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
29378 to a file periodically.
29379 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
29380 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
29381 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
29385 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
29386 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
29387 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
29388 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
29389 in the relevant networkstatus document.
29390 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
29391 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
29392 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
29393 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
29394 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
29395 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
29396 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
29397 by Karsten Loesing.
29398 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
29399 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
29400 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
29401 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
29402 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
29403 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29404 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
29405 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
29406 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
29407 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29408 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
29409 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
29410 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
29411 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29412 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
29413 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
29414 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
29415 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
29416 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
29417 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29418 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29419 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
29420 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29421 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
29422 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
29423 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
29424 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
29425 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29428 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
29429 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
29430 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
29431 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
29432 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
29433 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
29434 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
29435 even if your DirPort isn't on.
29436 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
29437 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
29438 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
29440 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
29441 multiple controller passwords.
29442 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
29443 router based on the router's purpose.
29444 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
29445 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
29446 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
29447 the approved-routers file.
29450 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
29451 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
29452 well as a few minor bugs.
29455 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
29456 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
29457 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
29459 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
29460 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
29461 rebuild our server descriptor.
29463 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
29464 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
29465 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
29466 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
29467 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
29468 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
29469 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
29470 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
29471 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
29472 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
29474 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
29475 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
29476 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
29477 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
29478 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
29479 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
29480 then be flexible about families.
29483 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
29484 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
29485 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
29489 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
29490 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
29491 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
29492 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
29493 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
29496 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
29497 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
29498 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
29499 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
29500 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29503 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
29504 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
29506 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
29507 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
29508 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
29509 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
29510 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
29511 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
29512 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
29514 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
29515 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
29516 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
29517 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
29520 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
29521 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
29524 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
29525 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
29526 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29529 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
29530 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
29531 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
29532 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
29533 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
29534 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
29535 addresses many more minor issues.
29537 o New directory authorities:
29538 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
29541 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
29542 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
29543 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
29544 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
29546 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
29547 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
29548 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
29549 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
29550 and are reaching it.
29551 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
29552 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
29553 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
29554 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
29555 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
29556 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
29559 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
29560 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
29562 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
29563 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
29564 no longer work for clients.
29565 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
29566 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
29568 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
29569 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
29570 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
29571 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
29572 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
29573 enough directory information to build a circuit.
29574 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
29575 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
29576 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
29577 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
29578 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
29579 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
29581 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
29582 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
29583 requests for all of them.
29584 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
29586 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
29587 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
29588 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
29590 o New requirements:
29591 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
29592 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
29596 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
29597 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
29598 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
29599 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
29600 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
29601 networkstatuses that we already have.
29602 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
29603 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
29604 we start knowing some directory caches.
29605 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
29606 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
29607 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
29608 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
29609 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
29610 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
29611 Good in combination with --hash-password.
29612 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
29613 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
29615 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
29616 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
29617 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
29619 o Minor features (bridges):
29620 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
29621 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
29622 back to trying the bridge directly.
29623 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
29624 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
29626 o Minor features (controller):
29627 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
29628 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
29629 report the value as a "minimum skew."
29632 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
29633 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
29637 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
29638 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
29639 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
29640 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
29641 reported by tup and ioerror.
29642 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
29643 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
29645 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
29646 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
29648 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
29649 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
29650 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
29652 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
29653 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29654 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
29655 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29656 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
29657 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29658 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
29660 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
29661 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
29662 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29664 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
29665 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
29666 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
29667 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
29668 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
29671 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
29672 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
29673 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
29674 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
29675 lists for a few hours each day.
29677 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
29678 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
29679 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
29680 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
29681 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
29682 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
29683 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
29684 rend_process_relay_cell().
29686 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
29687 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
29688 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
29689 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
29690 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
29691 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
29692 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
29693 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
29695 o Major bugfixes (other):
29696 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
29697 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
29698 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
29699 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
29700 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
29701 circuit cannibalization).
29702 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
29703 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
29704 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
29705 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
29706 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
29707 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
29710 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
29711 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
29713 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
29714 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
29715 absent. Resolves bug 467.
29716 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
29717 a way to trigger this remotely.)
29718 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
29719 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
29720 were reporting the dir port.)
29721 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
29722 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
29723 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
29724 the future. Fixes bug 434.
29725 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
29727 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
29728 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
29729 the onion key from getting rotated.
29730 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
29731 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
29732 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
29733 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
29734 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
29735 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
29736 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
29737 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
29738 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
29741 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
29742 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
29743 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
29744 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
29745 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
29746 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
29748 o Major features (directory system):
29749 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
29750 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
29751 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
29752 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
29753 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
29754 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
29755 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
29756 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
29757 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
29758 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
29759 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
29760 Partially implements proposal 122.
29761 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
29762 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
29765 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
29766 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
29767 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
29768 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
29770 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
29771 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
29772 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
29773 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
29774 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
29775 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29776 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
29777 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
29778 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29780 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
29781 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
29783 - Allow certificates to include an address.
29784 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
29785 and download operations.
29786 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
29787 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
29788 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
29789 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
29790 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
29791 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
29793 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
29794 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
29797 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
29798 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
29799 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
29800 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
29802 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
29803 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
29804 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
29806 o Minor features (performance):
29807 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
29808 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
29809 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
29810 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
29811 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
29812 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
29813 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
29816 o Minor features (compilation):
29817 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
29818 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
29820 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
29821 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
29822 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
29823 stick around indefinitely.
29824 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
29826 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
29827 v3 directory authority.
29828 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
29829 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
29831 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
29832 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
29833 "moria on moria:9031."
29834 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
29835 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
29836 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
29837 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
29838 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
29839 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
29840 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
29841 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
29843 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
29844 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
29845 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
29846 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
29847 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
29848 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
29849 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
29850 downloads than for other types.
29852 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
29853 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
29855 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
29856 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
29857 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29859 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
29860 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
29861 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29862 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
29863 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
29864 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
29865 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
29866 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
29868 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
29869 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
29870 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
29871 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
29872 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
29873 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
29874 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
29875 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
29876 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
29877 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
29878 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
29880 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
29881 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
29884 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29885 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
29886 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
29887 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
29888 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
29889 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
29890 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
29891 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
29892 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
29893 so that they all take the same named flags.
29896 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
29897 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
29898 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
29901 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
29902 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
29903 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
29904 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
29905 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
29906 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
29908 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
29909 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
29910 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
29911 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
29912 annotations along with descriptors.
29913 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
29914 source, and its purpose.
29915 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
29917 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
29918 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
29919 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
29920 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
29923 o Major features (directory authorities):
29924 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
29926 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
29927 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
29928 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
29929 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
29930 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
29931 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
29933 o Major features (v3 directory system):
29934 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
29935 and download the descriptors listed in them.
29936 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
29937 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
29938 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
29940 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
29941 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
29942 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
29943 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
29946 o Major bugfixes (performance):
29947 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
29948 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
29949 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
29950 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
29952 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
29953 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
29954 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
29955 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
29956 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
29957 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
29959 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
29960 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
29962 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
29963 certificate is requested.
29964 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
29965 certificate requests.
29967 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
29968 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
29969 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
29970 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
29973 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
29974 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
29975 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
29976 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
29978 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
29979 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
29981 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
29982 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
29983 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
29984 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
29985 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
29986 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
29987 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
29988 downloads more sensible.
29989 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
29990 another when serving certificates.
29992 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
29993 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
29994 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
29995 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
29997 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
29998 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
29999 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
30001 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
30002 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30004 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
30005 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
30006 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
30007 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
30008 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
30010 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
30011 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
30012 WARN-severity events.
30013 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
30014 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
30015 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
30017 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
30018 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
30019 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
30021 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
30022 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
30023 circuit cannibalization).
30025 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30026 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
30027 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
30028 new module, networkstatus.c.
30029 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
30030 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
30031 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
30032 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
30033 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
30034 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
30035 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
30036 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
30037 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
30039 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
30041 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
30042 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30045 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
30046 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
30047 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
30048 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
30050 o New directory authorities:
30051 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
30052 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
30054 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30055 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
30056 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30058 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
30059 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
30060 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
30061 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
30062 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30063 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
30064 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
30065 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
30066 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
30067 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
30068 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30070 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
30071 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
30072 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
30073 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
30074 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
30075 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
30076 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
30077 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
30078 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
30080 o Minor features (security):
30081 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
30082 address maps to an internal address space.
30083 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
30084 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
30086 o Minor features (guard nodes):
30087 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
30088 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
30089 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
30090 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
30092 o Minor features (speed):
30093 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
30094 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
30095 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
30096 on big-endian hosts.)
30098 o Minor features (controller):
30099 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
30100 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
30101 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
30102 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
30105 o Removed features:
30106 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
30107 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
30108 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
30109 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
30110 implementation of proposal 104.
30111 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
30112 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
30113 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
30114 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
30115 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
30116 patch from Karsten Loesing.
30117 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
30118 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
30121 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
30122 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
30123 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30124 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
30125 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30126 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
30127 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30128 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
30129 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
30130 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30131 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
30132 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
30133 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
30134 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30135 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
30136 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
30137 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
30138 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30139 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
30140 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
30142 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30143 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
30144 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
30146 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
30147 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
30148 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
30149 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
30152 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
30153 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
30154 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
30155 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
30156 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
30159 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
30160 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
30163 o Major bugfixes (security):
30164 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
30165 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
30166 become more of a headache than it's worth.
30168 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
30169 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
30170 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
30172 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
30173 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
30174 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
30175 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
30176 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
30177 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
30179 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
30180 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
30181 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
30182 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
30183 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
30185 o Minor features (controller):
30186 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
30187 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
30188 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
30189 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
30191 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
30192 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
30193 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
30194 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
30195 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
30196 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
30197 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
30198 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
30200 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
30201 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
30202 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
30203 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
30204 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
30205 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
30206 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
30207 if we ran off the end of the list.
30208 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
30209 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
30210 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
30211 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
30212 every time we change any piece of our config.
30213 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
30214 encourage people using them to stop.
30215 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
30217 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
30218 servers to choose a circuit.
30219 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
30220 unparseable piece of it.
30223 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
30224 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
30225 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
30226 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
30229 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
30230 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
30231 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
30232 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
30233 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
30235 o New directory authorities:
30236 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
30239 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
30240 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
30241 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
30242 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
30244 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
30245 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
30246 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
30248 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
30249 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
30250 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
30251 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
30252 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
30253 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
30255 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
30256 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
30257 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30260 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
30261 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
30262 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
30263 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
30267 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
30268 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
30269 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
30270 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
30272 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
30273 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
30275 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
30276 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
30277 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
30278 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
30279 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
30280 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
30281 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30282 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
30283 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
30284 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
30287 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
30288 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
30289 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
30290 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
30291 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
30292 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
30294 o Removed features:
30295 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
30296 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
30297 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
30298 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
30301 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
30302 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
30303 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
30304 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
30305 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
30308 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
30309 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
30310 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
30311 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
30312 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
30313 reported by lodger.
30315 o Minor features (directory servers):
30316 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
30317 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
30319 o Minor features (directory voting):
30320 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
30323 o Minor features (security):
30324 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
30325 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
30326 encourage people using them to stop.
30328 o Minor features (controller):
30329 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
30330 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
30331 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
30332 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
30333 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
30334 cookie authentication file, and config option
30335 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
30337 o Minor features (unit testing):
30338 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
30339 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
30340 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
30341 logging for the unit tests.
30343 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
30344 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
30345 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
30346 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
30347 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
30348 every time we change any piece of our config.
30349 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
30350 the future. Fixes bug 434.
30351 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
30353 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
30354 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
30355 the onion key from getting rotated.
30356 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
30357 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
30358 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
30361 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
30362 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
30363 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
30365 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
30366 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
30367 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
30368 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
30371 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
30372 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
30373 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
30374 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
30375 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
30376 TorK, etc. Or worse.
30378 o Major security fixes:
30379 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
30380 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
30383 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
30384 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
30385 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
30386 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
30388 o Major security fixes:
30389 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
30390 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
30392 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
30393 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
30396 o Minor features (performance):
30397 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
30398 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
30399 performance-intensive.
30400 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
30401 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
30402 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
30403 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
30404 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
30405 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
30409 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
30410 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
30411 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
30412 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
30416 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
30417 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
30418 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
30419 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
30420 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
30422 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
30423 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
30424 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
30425 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
30427 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
30428 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
30429 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
30430 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
30431 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
30433 o Major features (experimental):
30434 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
30435 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
30436 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
30437 handling before it's ready for use.
30440 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
30441 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
30442 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
30443 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
30444 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
30445 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
30447 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
30448 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
30449 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
30450 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
30451 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
30453 o Major bugfixes (directory):
30454 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
30455 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
30457 o Minor features (controller):
30458 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
30459 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
30460 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
30461 from Robert Hogan.)
30462 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
30463 from Robert Hogan.)
30464 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
30465 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
30467 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
30468 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
30469 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
30470 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
30471 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
30472 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
30473 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
30476 o Minor features (misc):
30477 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
30479 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
30480 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
30481 the authority identity key.
30482 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
30484 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
30485 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
30486 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
30489 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
30490 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
30491 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
30492 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
30493 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
30494 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
30495 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
30496 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
30498 o Performance improvements:
30499 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
30501 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
30502 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
30505 o Deprecated and removed features:
30506 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
30507 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
30508 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
30509 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
30511 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
30512 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
30513 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
30514 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
30515 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
30516 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
30517 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
30518 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
30519 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
30522 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
30523 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
30524 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
30525 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
30526 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
30528 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
30529 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
30532 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30533 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
30534 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
30535 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
30536 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
30537 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
30538 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
30539 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
30540 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
30543 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
30544 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
30545 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
30546 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
30548 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
30549 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
30551 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30552 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
30553 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
30554 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
30555 routerlist while inserting a new router.
30556 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
30557 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
30559 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
30560 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
30561 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
30563 o Major bugfixes (security):
30564 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
30566 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
30567 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
30568 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
30569 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
30570 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
30571 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
30572 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
30573 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
30574 guard list unless we need to.
30576 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
30577 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
30578 don't get overused as guards.
30580 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
30581 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
30582 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
30583 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
30584 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
30586 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
30587 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
30588 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
30591 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
30592 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
30593 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
30594 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
30595 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
30596 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
30597 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
30598 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
30601 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
30602 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
30603 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
30604 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
30606 o Minor features (directory):
30607 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
30608 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
30609 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
30610 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
30612 o Minor build issues:
30613 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
30614 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
30615 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
30616 in the tarball, not as "x".
30619 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
30620 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
30621 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
30622 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
30623 forward on a lot of fronts.
30625 o Major features, server usability:
30626 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
30627 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
30628 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
30629 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
30631 o Major features, client usability:
30632 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
30633 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
30634 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
30635 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
30636 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
30637 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
30638 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
30639 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
30641 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
30642 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
30643 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
30644 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
30645 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
30646 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
30648 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
30649 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
30650 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
30652 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
30653 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
30654 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
30655 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
30656 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
30658 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
30659 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
30660 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
30661 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
30663 o Major features, other:
30664 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
30665 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
30666 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
30667 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
30668 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
30671 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
30672 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
30673 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
30676 o Minor fixes (resource management):
30677 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
30678 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
30679 our allocated connection limit.
30680 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
30681 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
30682 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
30683 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
30684 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
30686 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
30687 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
30688 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
30690 o Minor features (build):
30691 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
30692 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
30693 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
30694 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
30696 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
30697 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
30698 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
30699 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
30700 Use this version consistently in log messages.
30702 o Minor features (logging):
30703 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
30704 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
30705 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
30706 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
30707 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
30710 o Minor features (directory system):
30711 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
30712 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
30713 not to serve V2 directory information.
30714 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
30715 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
30716 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
30718 o Minor features (controller):
30719 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
30720 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
30722 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
30723 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
30724 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
30725 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
30726 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
30727 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
30729 o Minor features (hidden services):
30730 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
30731 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
30732 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
30733 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
30735 o Minor features (other):
30737 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
30738 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
30739 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
30740 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
30741 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
30742 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
30743 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
30744 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
30745 longer a completely silly thing to do.
30746 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
30747 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
30748 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
30749 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
30751 o Removed features:
30752 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
30753 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
30754 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
30755 back an error and close the connection.
30756 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
30757 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
30760 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
30761 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
30762 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
30763 makes the log messages nicer.
30764 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
30765 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
30766 partial results on small file reads.
30768 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
30769 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
30770 more often than they are allowed to appear.
30771 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
30772 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
30774 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
30775 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
30776 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
30777 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
30779 o Minor bugfixes (other):
30780 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
30781 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
30782 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
30783 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
30784 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
30785 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
30786 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
30787 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
30788 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
30789 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
30791 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
30792 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
30793 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
30795 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
30796 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
30797 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
30798 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
30800 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30801 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
30802 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
30804 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
30805 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
30808 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30809 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
30810 implicit in other procedure arguments.
30811 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
30812 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
30813 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
30814 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
30815 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
30816 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
30817 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
30818 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
30819 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
30822 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
30823 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
30824 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
30825 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
30827 o Directory authority changes:
30828 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
30829 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
30830 or use hidden services.
30832 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30833 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
30834 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
30835 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
30836 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
30837 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
30838 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
30839 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
30840 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
30843 o Major bugfixes (security):
30844 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
30845 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
30846 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
30848 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
30849 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
30850 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
30851 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
30852 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
30853 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
30854 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
30855 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
30856 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
30857 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
30860 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
30861 purpose=controller.
30862 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
30863 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
30865 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
30866 having a hard time downloading.
30867 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
30868 partial results on small file reads.
30869 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
30870 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
30871 the gaps in the store get very large.
30874 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
30875 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
30877 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
30878 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
30881 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
30882 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
30883 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
30884 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
30885 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
30886 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
30888 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
30889 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
30890 free speech on the Internet.
30893 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
30894 get one we don't recognize.
30895 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
30896 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
30899 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
30901 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
30902 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
30903 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
30904 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
30907 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
30908 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
30911 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
30912 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
30913 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
30914 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
30915 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
30916 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
30917 ask for GUARDS too.
30920 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
30921 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
30922 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
30923 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
30924 on Win98 and friends again.
30926 o Minor bugfixes (other):
30927 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
30928 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
30931 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
30932 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
30933 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
30934 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
30935 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
30936 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
30937 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
30938 and maybe also bug 397.)
30940 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
30941 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
30942 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
30944 o Minor bugfixes (server):
30945 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
30948 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
30949 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
30950 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
30951 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
30952 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
30954 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
30955 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
30956 load on authorities.
30958 o Minor bugfixes (other):
30959 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
30960 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
30961 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
30963 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
30965 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
30966 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
30967 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
30968 the last of bug 326.)
30969 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
30970 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
30974 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
30975 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30976 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
30977 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
30978 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
30979 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
30980 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
30982 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
30983 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
30985 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
30986 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
30987 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
30989 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
30990 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
30991 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
30993 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
30994 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
30995 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
30996 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
30998 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
30999 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
31001 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
31002 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
31003 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
31006 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31007 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
31008 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
31009 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
31010 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
31011 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
31012 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
31013 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
31014 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
31015 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
31016 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
31017 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
31018 other than file-not-found.
31019 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
31020 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
31021 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
31022 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
31023 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
31024 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
31025 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
31026 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
31027 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
31028 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
31029 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
31030 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
31031 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
31032 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
31033 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
31035 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
31037 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
31038 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
31040 o Minor features (controller):
31041 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
31042 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
31043 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
31045 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
31046 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
31047 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
31048 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
31049 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
31050 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
31051 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
31052 connected or resolved cell.
31054 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
31055 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
31056 some profiles, but not others.)
31057 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
31058 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
31059 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
31062 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
31064 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
31065 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
31066 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
31067 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
31068 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
31069 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
31070 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
31071 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
31072 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
31073 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
31074 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
31075 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
31076 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
31077 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
31078 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
31080 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
31083 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
31084 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
31085 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
31086 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
31087 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
31088 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
31089 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
31091 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
31092 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
31093 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
31094 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
31095 buckets go absurdly negative.
31096 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
31097 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
31100 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
31101 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
31102 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
31103 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
31104 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
31105 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
31106 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
31107 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
31110 o Major bugfixes (other):
31111 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
31112 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
31113 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
31114 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
31116 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
31118 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
31119 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
31121 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
31122 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
31123 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
31124 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
31125 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
31126 to wait for 0.2.0.)
31128 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
31129 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
31130 possible memory-stomping bugs.
31131 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
31132 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
31134 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
31135 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
31136 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
31137 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
31138 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
31139 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
31141 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31142 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
31143 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
31144 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
31146 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
31147 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
31148 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
31149 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
31150 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
31151 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
31152 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
31153 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
31154 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
31155 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
31156 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
31157 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
31158 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
31160 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
31161 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
31162 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
31163 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
31164 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
31165 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
31166 to the resulting address.
31169 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
31170 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
31171 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
31172 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
31175 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
31176 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
31178 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
31179 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
31180 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
31181 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
31182 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
31183 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
31184 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
31185 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
31186 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
31187 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
31188 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
31189 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
31190 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
31191 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
31192 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
31193 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
31194 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
31197 o Minor features (controller):
31198 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
31199 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
31200 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
31201 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
31202 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
31203 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
31204 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
31208 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
31210 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
31211 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
31212 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
31213 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
31214 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
31215 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
31218 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
31219 weren't planning to resolve.
31220 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
31221 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
31222 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
31223 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
31224 the controller from learning about current events.
31226 o Minor features (more controller status events):
31227 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
31228 learn when our address changes.
31229 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
31230 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
31231 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
31232 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
31234 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
31235 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
31236 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
31237 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
31238 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
31239 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
31240 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
31241 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
31242 are accepted by a directory.
31243 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
31244 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
31245 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
31246 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
31247 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
31249 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
31250 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
31251 about changes to DNS server status.
31253 o Minor features (directory):
31254 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
31255 too much load to the exit nodes.
31258 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
31260 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
31261 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
31262 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
31263 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
31264 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
31266 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
31267 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
31268 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
31270 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
31271 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
31272 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
31273 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
31274 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
31275 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
31276 config options if you like.
31278 o Minor features (config and docs):
31279 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
31280 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
31281 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
31282 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
31283 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
31285 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
31286 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
31287 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
31288 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
31289 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
31291 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
31292 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
31293 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
31294 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
31295 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
31296 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
31297 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
31298 documentation: "make check-docs".
31299 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
31300 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
31302 o Minor features (DNS):
31303 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
31304 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
31305 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
31306 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
31307 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
31308 our tests for DNS hijacking.
31310 o Minor features (directory):
31311 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
31312 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
31313 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
31314 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
31315 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
31316 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
31317 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
31318 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
31319 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
31320 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
31321 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
31322 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
31323 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
31324 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
31325 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
31326 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
31327 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
31328 for the thing we're trying to download.
31329 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
31330 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
31331 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
31333 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
31334 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
31335 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
31338 o Minor features (controller):
31339 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
31340 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
31342 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
31343 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
31344 entry guard status as it changes.
31346 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
31347 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
31348 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
31349 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
31350 to set log options.
31351 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
31352 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
31353 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
31354 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
31357 o Major bugfixes (security):
31358 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
31359 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
31360 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
31361 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
31363 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
31364 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
31365 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
31366 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
31367 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
31369 o Major bugfixes (other):
31370 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
31371 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
31372 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
31373 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
31375 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
31376 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
31377 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
31378 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
31379 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
31380 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
31384 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
31385 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
31386 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
31387 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
31388 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
31390 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
31391 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
31393 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
31394 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
31395 family lists conveniently.
31396 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
31397 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
31398 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
31400 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
31401 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
31403 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
31404 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
31405 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
31406 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
31407 if their identity keys are as expected.
31408 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
31409 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
31410 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
31412 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31413 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
31414 reported by Mike Perry.
31415 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
31416 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
31417 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
31418 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
31421 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
31422 o Security bugfixes:
31423 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
31424 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
31425 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
31426 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
31430 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
31431 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
31432 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
31435 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
31437 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
31438 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
31439 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
31442 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
31443 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
31444 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
31445 watching for STREAM events.
31446 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
31447 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
31448 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
31449 operations, for profiling.
31452 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
31453 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
31454 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
31455 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
31456 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
31457 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
31459 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
31463 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
31464 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
31465 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
31466 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
31467 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
31469 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
31470 correctly in the Windows installer.
31471 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
31472 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
31473 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
31474 MIPSpro C compiler.
31475 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
31476 when we're running as a client.
31479 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
31481 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
31482 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
31483 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
31484 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
31485 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
31486 its circuits on demand.
31487 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
31488 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
31489 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
31490 connections more stable on average.
31491 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
31492 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
31493 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
31495 o Security bugfixes:
31496 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
31497 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
31500 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
31502 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
31503 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
31504 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
31505 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
31506 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
31507 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
31508 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
31509 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
31512 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
31514 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
31515 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
31516 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
31517 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
31518 routers for even longer.
31519 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
31520 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
31521 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
31522 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
31523 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
31524 caching HTTP proxies.
31525 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
31528 o Minor features, controller:
31529 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
31530 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
31531 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
31532 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
31534 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
31535 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
31536 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
31537 working much like those for circuit events.
31538 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
31539 about the current status of a router.
31540 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
31541 a router's status has changed.
31542 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
31543 can tell which events and features are supported.
31544 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
31545 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
31547 o Security bugfixes:
31548 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
31549 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
31552 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
31553 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
31554 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
31555 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
31556 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
31557 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
31558 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
31559 long nicknames where appropriate.
31560 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
31561 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
31562 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
31563 chews through many circuits before giving up.
31564 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
31565 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
31566 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
31567 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
31568 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
31569 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
31571 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
31572 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
31573 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
31575 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
31576 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
31577 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
31578 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
31579 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
31580 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
31581 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
31582 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
31583 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
31584 (reported by fookoowa).
31585 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
31586 and reported by some Centos users.
31587 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
31588 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
31589 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
31590 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
31591 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
31592 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
31593 before we check for libevent.
31596 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
31598 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
31599 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
31600 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
31601 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
31602 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
31603 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
31604 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
31605 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
31606 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
31607 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
31608 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
31609 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
31610 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
31611 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
31612 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
31613 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
31614 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
31615 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
31616 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
31617 lets you turn it off.
31618 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
31619 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
31620 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
31621 us into the directory more quickly.
31623 o New/improved config options:
31624 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
31625 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
31626 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
31627 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
31628 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
31629 all the machines on the same subnet.
31630 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
31631 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
31632 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
31633 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
31634 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
31635 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
31636 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
31637 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
31638 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
31639 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
31641 o Minor features, controller:
31642 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
31643 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
31644 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
31645 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
31646 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
31647 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
31648 for more information.
31649 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
31650 best guess to the user.
31651 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
31652 descriptor has changed.
31653 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
31655 o Minor features, other:
31656 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
31657 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
31658 useful to the network.
31659 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
31660 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
31661 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
31662 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
31663 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
31664 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
31665 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
31666 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
31667 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
31668 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
31669 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
31670 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
31671 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
31672 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
31673 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
31675 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
31676 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
31677 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
31678 could return an unnamed server instead.
31679 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
31680 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
31681 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
31682 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
31683 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
31684 a more attractive target for compromise.)
31685 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
31686 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
31687 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
31689 o Major bugfixes, other:
31690 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
31691 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
31692 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
31693 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
31694 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
31695 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
31696 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
31697 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
31698 its circuits on demand.
31699 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
31700 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
31701 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
31702 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
31704 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
31705 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
31706 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
31707 we don't recognize.
31708 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
31710 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
31711 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
31712 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
31713 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
31714 "extendcircuit" request.
31715 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
31716 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
31717 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
31719 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
31720 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
31721 instead of "X resolved to X".
31722 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
31723 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
31724 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
31725 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
31726 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
31727 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
31728 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
31729 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
31730 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
31732 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
31733 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
31734 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
31735 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
31736 result more than once.
31737 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
31738 non-versioning dirservers.
31739 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
31740 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
31742 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
31743 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
31744 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
31745 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
31746 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
31747 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
31748 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
31749 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
31750 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
31752 o Packaging, features:
31753 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
31754 now universal binaries.
31755 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
31756 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
31757 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
31759 o Packaging, bugfixes:
31760 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
31761 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
31762 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
31763 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
31765 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
31766 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
31767 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
31770 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
31771 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
31772 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
31776 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
31778 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
31779 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
31780 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
31781 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
31782 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
31783 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
31784 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
31785 it can't resolve its hostname.
31788 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
31789 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
31790 "extendcircuit" request.
31791 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
31792 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
31793 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
31794 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
31796 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
31797 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
31798 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
31800 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
31801 methods: these are known to be buggy.
31802 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
31803 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
31804 we don't recognize.
31807 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
31809 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
31810 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
31811 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
31812 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
31813 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
31814 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
31815 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
31816 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
31817 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
31818 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
31819 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
31820 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
31821 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
31822 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
31823 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
31824 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
31825 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
31826 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
31827 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
31828 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
31829 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
31830 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
31831 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
31832 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
31835 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
31836 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
31837 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
31838 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
31839 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
31840 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
31841 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
31842 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
31843 recommendation system saner.)
31844 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
31846 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
31847 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
31848 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
31849 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
31850 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
31851 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
31852 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
31853 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
31854 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
31855 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
31856 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
31857 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
31858 your ORPort is set.
31859 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
31860 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
31861 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
31862 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
31863 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
31864 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
31865 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
31866 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
31867 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
31868 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
31869 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
31870 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
31872 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
31873 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
31874 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
31875 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
31876 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
31877 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
31880 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
31881 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
31882 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
31883 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
31884 our DirPort now, etc.
31885 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
31886 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
31887 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
31888 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
31889 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
31890 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
31891 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
31893 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
31894 whether the config options are bad or good.
31895 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
31896 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
31897 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
31898 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
31899 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
31900 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
31901 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
31902 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
31905 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
31906 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
31907 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
31908 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
31909 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
31910 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
31911 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
31912 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
31913 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
31914 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
31915 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
31916 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
31917 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
31918 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
31919 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
31920 of it), is not therefore "up".
31921 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
31922 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
31923 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
31924 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
31925 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
31926 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
31929 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
31931 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
31932 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
31933 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
31934 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
31935 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
31936 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
31937 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
31938 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
31939 test reachability, so you won't publish.
31942 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
31943 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
31944 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
31945 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
31946 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
31948 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
31949 own server descriptor yet.
31952 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
31954 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
31955 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
31956 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
31957 make sure to test via one of these.
31958 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
31959 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
31960 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
31961 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
31962 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
31964 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
31965 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
31966 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
31969 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
31970 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
31971 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
31972 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
31973 directory authority.
31974 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
31975 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
31976 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
31977 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
31980 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
31981 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
31982 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
31984 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
31985 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
31986 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
31987 current guards when picking a new guard.
31988 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
31989 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
31990 when we had more than one pending.
31991 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
31992 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
31993 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
31994 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
31995 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
31996 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
31997 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
31998 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
31999 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
32000 debug the reachability problems better.
32002 o Log / documentation fixes:
32003 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
32004 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
32005 about protocol violations by others.
32006 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
32007 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
32008 about what happened to our old torrc.
32011 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
32013 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
32015 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
32016 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
32017 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
32018 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
32021 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
32023 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
32024 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
32025 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
32026 old ORPort and receive connections.
32027 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
32029 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
32030 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
32031 and network-statuses.
32032 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
32033 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
32034 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
32035 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
32037 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
32040 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
32041 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
32042 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
32045 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
32047 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
32048 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
32049 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
32050 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
32051 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
32054 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
32055 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
32057 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
32058 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
32059 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
32060 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
32061 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
32062 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
32063 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
32064 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
32065 rather than not sending anything back at all.
32066 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
32067 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
32068 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
32069 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
32070 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
32071 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
32072 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
32073 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
32074 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
32075 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
32076 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
32077 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
32078 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
32079 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
32080 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
32081 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
32082 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
32083 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
32084 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
32085 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
32086 default ulimit -n is 1024.
32089 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
32090 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
32091 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
32092 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
32095 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
32097 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
32098 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
32099 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
32100 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
32101 entry guards running these flawed versions.
32102 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
32103 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
32104 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
32105 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
32106 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
32109 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
32110 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
32112 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
32113 and it is confusing some users.
32114 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
32115 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
32116 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
32117 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
32118 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
32121 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
32123 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
32124 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
32125 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
32126 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
32127 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
32128 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
32129 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
32130 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
32131 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
32132 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
32133 dirport is set for now.
32135 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
32136 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
32137 unattached before we fail it?
32138 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
32139 at least this many seconds ago.
32140 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
32141 at least this many seconds ago.
32144 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
32145 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
32146 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
32147 or resolve-wait stream.
32148 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
32149 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
32150 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
32151 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
32152 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
32153 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
32154 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
32155 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
32157 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
32158 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
32159 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
32160 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
32161 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
32162 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
32163 given as hex digests.
32164 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
32165 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
32166 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
32167 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
32168 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
32169 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
32170 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
32171 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
32174 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32175 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
32176 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
32177 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
32178 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
32179 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
32180 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
32181 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
32182 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
32183 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
32184 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
32187 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
32188 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
32189 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
32190 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
32191 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
32192 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
32193 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
32196 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
32197 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
32198 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
32199 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
32200 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
32201 misreading their logs.
32202 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
32203 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
32204 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
32205 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
32206 valid router descriptors.
32207 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
32208 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
32209 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
32210 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
32211 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
32212 silently resetting it to its default.
32213 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
32215 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
32218 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
32219 use clean circuits.
32220 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
32221 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
32222 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
32223 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
32224 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
32226 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
32227 because older Tors do not understand it.
32228 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
32232 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
32233 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
32234 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
32235 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
32236 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
32237 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
32238 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
32239 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
32240 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
32241 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
32242 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
32244 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
32245 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
32246 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
32247 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
32249 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
32250 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
32253 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
32254 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
32255 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
32256 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
32257 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
32258 without getting overloaded.
32259 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
32261 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
32262 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
32263 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
32264 be forward-compatible.
32265 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
32266 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
32267 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
32268 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
32270 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
32271 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
32272 and OR conns to port 443.
32273 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
32274 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
32276 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
32277 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
32278 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
32279 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
32280 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
32281 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
32282 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
32285 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
32286 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32287 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
32288 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
32290 o Other important bugfixes:
32291 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
32292 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
32293 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
32294 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
32296 o Backported features:
32297 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
32298 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
32299 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
32300 without getting overloaded.
32301 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
32302 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
32303 503's whenever they feel busy.
32304 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
32305 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
32306 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
32307 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
32308 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
32311 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
32312 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
32313 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
32314 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
32315 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
32316 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
32317 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
32318 know if the crashes continue.
32319 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
32320 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
32321 seg faults in at least some cases.)
32322 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
32323 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
32324 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
32327 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
32328 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
32329 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
32330 try to be a bit more fair.
32331 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
32332 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
32333 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
32334 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
32335 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
32336 bug that let it go negative.
32337 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
32338 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
32339 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
32340 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
32341 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
32342 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
32343 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
32344 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
32345 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
32346 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
32347 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
32350 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
32352 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
32353 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
32354 service descriptors.
32357 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
32358 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
32359 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
32360 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
32362 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
32363 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
32364 versions *are* still recommended.
32365 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
32366 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
32367 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
32368 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
32369 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
32370 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
32371 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
32372 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
32374 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
32375 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
32376 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
32377 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
32378 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
32379 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
32380 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
32381 on it. Not used by clients yet.
32382 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
32383 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
32384 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
32385 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
32386 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
32387 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
32388 established a circuit.
32389 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
32390 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
32391 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
32392 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
32395 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
32396 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
32397 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
32398 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
32399 quickly enough. Oops.
32400 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
32402 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32403 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
32406 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
32407 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
32408 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
32409 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
32410 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
32411 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
32412 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
32413 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
32414 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
32415 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
32416 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
32417 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
32418 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
32419 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
32420 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
32421 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
32422 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
32425 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
32426 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
32427 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
32428 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
32429 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
32430 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
32431 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
32432 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
32433 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
32434 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
32435 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
32436 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
32437 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
32438 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
32439 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
32440 connections more reliable.
32443 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
32444 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
32445 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
32446 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
32447 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
32448 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
32449 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
32450 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
32451 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
32452 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
32453 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
32454 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
32455 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
32456 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
32460 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
32461 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
32462 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
32463 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
32464 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
32465 need to be uint64_t's.
32466 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
32467 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
32468 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
32470 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
32472 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
32473 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
32474 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
32475 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
32476 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
32477 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
32478 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
32480 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
32481 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
32482 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
32483 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
32484 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
32485 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
32486 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
32487 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
32488 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
32489 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
32490 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
32491 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
32492 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
32495 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
32496 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
32497 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
32498 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
32499 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
32500 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
32501 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
32503 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
32504 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
32505 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
32506 can answer v2 directory requests too.
32507 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
32508 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
32509 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
32510 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
32512 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
32513 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
32514 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
32515 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
32516 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
32517 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
32518 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
32519 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
32520 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
32521 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
32522 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
32523 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
32524 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
32525 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
32526 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
32528 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
32529 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
32532 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
32533 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32534 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
32535 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
32536 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
32537 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
32538 too -- so detect and avoid this.
32539 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
32541 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
32542 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
32543 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
32544 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
32545 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
32546 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
32547 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
32548 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
32549 rendezvous circuits.
32550 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
32552 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32553 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
32554 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
32555 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
32556 advertising it because of hibernation.
32557 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
32558 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
32559 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
32560 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
32561 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
32562 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
32563 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
32564 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
32565 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
32566 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
32567 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
32568 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
32569 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
32570 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
32573 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
32574 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32575 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
32576 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
32577 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
32578 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
32579 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
32580 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
32581 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
32582 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
32583 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
32584 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
32585 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
32586 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
32587 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
32588 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
32589 connections once a week.
32590 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
32591 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
32592 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
32593 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
32594 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
32595 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
32597 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
32598 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
32599 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
32601 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32602 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
32603 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
32604 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
32605 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
32606 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
32607 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
32608 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
32609 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
32610 firewall options forbid.
32611 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
32612 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
32613 can only proxy to certain destinations.
32614 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
32615 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
32616 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
32617 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
32618 aids some statistical attacks.
32619 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
32620 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
32621 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
32622 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
32624 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
32625 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
32626 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
32627 server descriptor sometimes.
32628 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
32629 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
32630 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
32631 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
32632 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
32633 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
32634 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
32635 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
32637 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
32638 case the controller wants to change that too.
32639 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
32640 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
32641 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
32642 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
32644 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
32645 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
32646 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
32648 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
32649 descriptors that they know they will reject.
32651 o Features and updates:
32652 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
32653 significantly faster.
32654 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
32655 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
32656 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
32657 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
32658 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
32659 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
32660 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
32661 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
32662 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
32663 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
32664 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
32665 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
32666 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
32667 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
32668 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
32669 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
32670 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
32671 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
32672 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
32673 as authoritative dirserver.
32674 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
32675 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
32676 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
32679 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
32680 o Usability improvements:
32681 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
32682 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
32684 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
32685 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
32686 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
32688 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
32689 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
32690 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
32691 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
32692 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
32693 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
32694 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
32695 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
32696 memory leaks better.
32697 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
32698 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
32699 their operators to pay close attention.
32700 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
32701 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
32703 o Performance improvements:
32704 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
32705 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
32706 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
32707 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
32708 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
32709 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
32710 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
32711 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
32712 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
32713 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
32714 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
32715 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
32716 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
32717 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
32718 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
32719 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
32720 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
32722 o Security improvements:
32723 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
32724 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
32725 fingerprint of server.
32726 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
32727 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
32728 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
32730 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32731 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
32732 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
32733 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
32734 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
32735 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
32736 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
32737 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
32738 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
32739 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
32740 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
32741 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
32742 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
32743 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
32744 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
32745 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
32746 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
32747 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
32748 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
32749 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
32750 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
32752 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
32753 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
32754 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
32756 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
32757 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
32759 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
32760 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
32761 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
32762 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
32763 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
32764 of the controller protocol.
32765 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
32766 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
32767 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
32770 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
32771 o New features (major):
32772 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
32773 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
32774 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
32775 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
32776 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
32777 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
32778 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
32779 we're using a default DirPort.
32780 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
32782 o New features (minor):
32783 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
32784 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
32785 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
32786 mirrors still cache and serve it).
32787 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
32788 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
32789 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
32790 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
32791 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
32792 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
32793 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
32794 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
32795 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
32796 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
32797 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
32798 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
32799 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
32800 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
32801 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
32803 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
32804 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
32805 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
32806 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
32807 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
32808 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
32809 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
32810 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
32812 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
32813 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
32814 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
32815 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
32816 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
32817 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
32818 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
32819 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
32820 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
32821 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
32823 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
32824 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
32825 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
32826 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
32827 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
32829 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
32830 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
32831 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
32833 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
32834 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
32836 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
32837 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
32838 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
32839 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
32840 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
32841 don't warn twice about the same name.
32842 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
32843 if we've not heard of the server.
32844 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
32845 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
32848 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
32849 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
32850 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
32851 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
32852 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
32853 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
32854 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
32855 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
32856 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
32857 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
32858 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
32859 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
32860 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
32861 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
32862 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
32865 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
32866 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
32867 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
32868 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
32869 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
32871 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
32872 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
32873 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
32874 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
32875 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
32876 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
32880 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
32881 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
32882 nickname) is reachable by you.
32883 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
32886 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
32887 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
32888 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
32889 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
32890 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
32891 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
32892 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
32893 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
32894 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
32895 we fail to connect).
32896 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
32897 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
32898 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
32899 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
32901 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
32902 it was self-testing that told us so.
32905 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
32906 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
32907 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
32908 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
32909 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
32910 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
32911 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
32912 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
32913 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
32914 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
32915 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
32916 exit policy using him for any exits.
32917 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
32920 o New controller features/fixes:
32921 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
32922 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
32923 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
32924 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
32925 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
32926 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
32927 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
32928 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
32929 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
32931 o Start on the new directory design:
32932 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
32933 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
32935 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
32936 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
32937 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
32938 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
32940 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
32941 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
32942 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
32943 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
32944 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
32945 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
32946 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
32947 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
32950 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
32951 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
32952 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
32953 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
32954 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
32955 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
32956 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
32957 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
32958 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
32959 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
32961 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
32962 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
32963 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
32964 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
32965 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
32966 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
32967 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
32968 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
32969 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
32971 o Config option changes:
32972 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
32973 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
32974 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
32975 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
32976 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
32977 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
32979 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
32980 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
32981 people have started using them for spam too.
32982 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
32983 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
32984 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
32985 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
32986 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
32987 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
32988 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
32989 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
32990 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
32991 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
32992 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
32993 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
32994 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
32995 services faster on the service end.
32996 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
32997 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
32998 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
32999 it a fair shake next time we try.
33000 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
33001 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
33002 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
33003 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
33004 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
33005 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
33006 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
33007 able to discover them.
33008 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
33009 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
33010 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
33011 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
33012 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
33013 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
33014 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
33015 testing for reachability.
33016 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
33017 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
33019 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
33021 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
33022 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
33025 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
33026 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
33028 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33029 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
33030 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
33031 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
33034 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
33035 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33036 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
33038 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
33039 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
33042 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
33043 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
33046 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
33047 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
33048 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
33049 options, getinfo keys.
33052 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
33053 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33054 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
33055 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
33056 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
33057 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
33058 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
33060 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
33061 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
33065 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
33066 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
33067 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
33069 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
33071 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
33072 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
33073 circuit events and we go offline.
33074 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
33075 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
33076 you don't have enough intro points already.
33078 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
33079 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
33080 many bytes we've used in this time period.
33081 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
33082 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
33083 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
33084 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
33085 enabled by default yet.
33087 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
33088 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
33089 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
33090 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
33091 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
33094 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
33095 o New directory servers:
33096 - tor26 has changed IP address.
33098 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33099 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
33100 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
33101 pthreads libraries.
33102 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
33103 claims its dirport is 0.
33104 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
33105 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
33109 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
33110 o New directory servers:
33111 - tor26 has changed IP address.
33113 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
33114 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
33116 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
33117 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
33118 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
33119 ports that have changed.
33120 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
33122 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
33123 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
33124 Windows-style errno back.
33125 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
33127 want to make it an NT service.
33128 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
33129 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
33130 name, give the full name in our response.
33131 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
33132 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
33133 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
33134 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
33135 pthreads libraries.
33137 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
33138 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
33142 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
33143 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
33144 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
33145 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
33146 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
33149 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
33150 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
33151 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
33152 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
33153 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
33154 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
33155 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
33156 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
33159 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
33161 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
33162 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
33163 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
33164 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
33165 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
33166 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
33168 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
33169 temporarily unreachable.
33170 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
33174 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
33175 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
33176 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
33177 our protocol works.
33178 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
33182 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
33183 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
33184 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
33185 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
33186 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
33190 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
33191 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
33192 libevent before 1.1a.
33195 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
33197 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
33198 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
33199 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
33200 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
33201 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
33203 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
33204 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
33205 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
33206 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
33207 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
33208 of CPU time plus memory.
33209 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
33210 normal web requests.
33211 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
33212 tor_lookup_hostname().
33213 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
33214 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
33215 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
33216 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
33217 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
33218 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
33220 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
33221 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
33222 HttpProxyAuthenticator
33223 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
33224 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
33225 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
33227 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
33228 the user asks you to.
33229 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
33230 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
33231 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
33232 their descriptors are being rejected.
33233 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
33237 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
33239 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
33240 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
33241 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
33243 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
33245 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
33247 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
33248 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
33249 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
33250 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
33251 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
33252 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
33253 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
33254 keys) from the exit server's process.
33255 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
33256 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
33257 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
33258 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
33259 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
33260 point at your Tor server.
33261 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
33262 you're not sending a socks reply back.
33265 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
33266 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
33267 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
33268 to make it easier to write controllers.
33271 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
33273 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
33274 installing on Tiger.
33275 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
33276 complain during installation.
33277 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
33278 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
33279 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
33280 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
33281 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
33282 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
33284 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
33285 something more reasonable when first installing.
33286 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
33289 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
33291 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
33292 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
33294 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
33295 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
33296 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
33297 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
33298 when using the default exit policy.
33299 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
33300 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
33301 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
33302 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
33303 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
33304 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
33305 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
33306 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
33307 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
33308 we fetched a new directory.
33309 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
33310 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
33313 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
33314 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
33315 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
33316 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
33317 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
33318 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
33319 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
33320 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
33322 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
33323 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
33324 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
33325 save memory on systems that need to fork.
33326 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
33327 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
33328 is valid without actually launching Tor.
33329 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
33330 rather than just rejecting it.
33333 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
33335 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
33336 we didn't like its cert.
33338 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
33339 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
33340 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
33341 on patch from Adam Langley.
33342 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
33343 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
33344 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
33345 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
33347 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
33348 directory every time you regenerate it.
33349 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
33350 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
33353 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
33354 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
33355 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
33356 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
33357 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
33360 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
33362 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
33363 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
33364 TLS errors better in other situations too.
33365 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
33366 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
33367 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
33368 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
33369 and don't log when you are.
33370 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
33371 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
33373 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
33374 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
33375 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
33376 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
33377 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
33380 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
33381 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
33382 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
33383 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
33384 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
33385 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
33386 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
33387 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
33388 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
33389 nickname+key are allowed.
33390 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
33391 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
33392 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
33393 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
33394 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
33395 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
33396 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
33397 have quite wrong clocks).
33398 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
33399 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
33400 - Efficiency improvements:
33401 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
33402 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
33403 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
33404 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
33405 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
33406 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
33407 lowercase and be done with it.
33408 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
33409 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
33410 to abandon partially built circuits.
33411 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
33412 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
33414 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
33416 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
33417 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
33418 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
33419 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
33421 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
33422 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
33424 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
33425 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
33426 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
33427 obeying the exit policy internally.
33428 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
33429 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
33431 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
33432 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
33433 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
33434 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
33436 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
33437 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
33438 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
33439 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
33440 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
33442 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
33443 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
33444 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
33445 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
33446 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
33447 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
33448 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
33449 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
33450 descriptors we just dropped.
33451 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
33452 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
33453 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
33454 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
33455 artificially capped at 500kB.
33458 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
33459 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
33460 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
33461 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
33462 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
33463 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
33464 busy for more than 100 seconds.
33467 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
33468 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
33469 - Fixes on reachability detection:
33470 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
33471 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
33472 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
33473 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
33474 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
33475 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
33476 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
33477 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
33478 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
33479 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
33480 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
33481 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
33482 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
33483 server not already connected to them.
33484 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
33485 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
33486 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
33488 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
33490 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
33491 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
33492 are in a different state than they actually are.
33493 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
33494 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
33495 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
33497 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
33498 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
33499 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
33501 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
33502 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
33503 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
33504 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
33505 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
33506 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
33507 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
33509 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
33510 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
33511 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
33512 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
33515 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
33516 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
33517 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
33518 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
33519 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
33520 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
33521 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
33522 creating actual system users.
33523 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
33524 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
33528 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
33530 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
33531 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
33532 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
33533 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
33534 hidden services better.
33535 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
33537 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
33538 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
33539 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
33540 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
33541 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
33542 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
33543 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
33544 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
33545 patch by Matt Edman).
33546 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
33547 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
33548 required exit node for certain sites.
33549 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
33550 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
33551 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
33552 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
33553 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
33554 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
33555 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
33556 rather than just "success" or "failure".
33557 - A more sane version numbering system. See
33558 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
33559 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
33560 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
33562 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
33563 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
33564 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
33565 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
33566 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
33567 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
33568 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
33570 o Robustness/stability fixes:
33571 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
33572 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
33573 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
33575 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
33576 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
33577 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
33579 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
33580 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
33581 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
33583 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
33584 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
33585 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
33586 that will want high uptime circuits.
33587 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
33588 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
33589 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
33590 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
33591 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
33592 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
33593 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
33594 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
33595 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
33596 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
33597 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
33598 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
33599 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
33600 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
33601 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
33602 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
33603 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
33604 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
33605 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
33606 when we try to launch one.
33607 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
33608 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
33609 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
33610 "ShutdownWaitLength".
33611 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
33612 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
33613 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
33614 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
33615 and to take errno into account where possible.
33618 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
33619 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
33620 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
33621 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
33622 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
33623 file more reasonable.
33624 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
33625 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
33626 addresses -- it won't.
33627 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
33628 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
33629 for google.com" problem.
33630 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
33631 so it's not just "unknown platform".
33632 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
33633 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
33634 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
33635 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
33637 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
33638 they could use instead.
33639 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
33640 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
33641 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
33642 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
33643 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
33644 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
33645 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
33646 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
33647 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
33649 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
33653 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
33654 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
33656 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
33657 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
33658 private-IP addresses.
33659 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
33660 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
33662 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
33663 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
33664 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
33665 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
33666 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
33667 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
33668 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
33670 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
33671 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
33672 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
33673 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
33674 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
33675 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
33676 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
33677 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
33679 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
33681 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
33682 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
33683 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
33684 whether the server is hibernating.
33687 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
33688 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
33689 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
33690 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
33691 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
33692 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
33693 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
33694 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
33695 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
33696 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
33697 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
33698 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
33699 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
33700 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
33701 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
33703 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
33704 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
33705 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
33706 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
33707 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
33708 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
33709 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
33710 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
33711 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
33712 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
33713 existing torrc files.
33714 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
33717 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
33718 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
33719 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
33720 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
33721 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
33722 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
33723 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
33724 the win32 SYSTEM account.
33725 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
33726 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
33727 file descriptors available.
33728 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
33729 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
33730 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
33733 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
33734 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
33735 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
33736 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
33738 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
33739 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
33740 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
33741 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
33742 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
33744 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
33745 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
33746 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
33747 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
33748 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
33749 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
33750 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
33751 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
33752 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
33753 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
33754 800kB/s of capacity.
33755 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
33758 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
33759 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
33760 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
33761 need as much processor time.
33762 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
33763 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
33764 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
33765 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
33766 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
33767 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
33768 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
33769 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
33770 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
33771 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
33772 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
33773 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
33775 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
33776 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
33777 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
33778 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
33779 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
33780 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
33781 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
33784 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
33785 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
33786 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
33788 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
33789 style address, then we'd crash.
33790 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
33791 a dirserver is broken.
33792 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
33794 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
33795 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
33796 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
33798 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
33799 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
33800 name out of the warning/assert messages.
33801 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
33802 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
33803 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
33805 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
33806 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
33807 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
33809 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
33811 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
33812 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
33813 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
33814 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
33815 values at once couldn't work.
33816 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
33817 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
33818 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
33819 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
33820 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
33821 they can handle any number of routers.
33822 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
33823 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
33824 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
33825 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
33826 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
33827 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
33828 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
33829 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
33830 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
33833 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
33834 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
33835 - Make hibernation actually work.
33836 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
33837 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
33838 don't use the stream status code.
33841 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
33843 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
33844 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
33846 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
33849 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
33850 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
33851 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
33852 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
33853 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
33854 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
33855 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
33856 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
33857 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
33858 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
33860 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
33861 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
33862 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
33863 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
33864 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
33865 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
33866 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
33867 - Make unit tests work on win32.
33870 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
33871 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
33872 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
33874 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
33875 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
33876 than just chopping them off.
33877 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
33879 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
33880 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
33881 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
33882 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
33883 right after sending the begin cell.
33884 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
33885 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
33886 exit nodes too. Oops.
33889 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
33890 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
33891 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
33892 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
33893 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
33894 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
33895 the user knows which one it's talking about.
33896 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
33897 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
33898 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
33901 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
33902 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
33903 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
33904 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
33906 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
33908 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
33909 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
33910 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
33912 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
33913 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
33914 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
33915 Clip rather than rejecting.
33916 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
33917 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
33920 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
33921 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
33922 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
33923 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
33925 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
33928 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
33929 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
33930 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
33931 win32 socket errors better.
33933 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
33934 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
33937 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
33938 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
33939 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
33940 so we don't see those messages days later.
33942 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
33943 - Make tor-resolve work again.
33944 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
33945 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
33948 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
33949 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
33950 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
33951 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
33953 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
33954 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
33955 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
33958 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
33959 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
33960 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
33961 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
33962 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
33963 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
33964 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
33965 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
33966 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
33968 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
33969 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
33970 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
33971 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
33973 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
33974 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
33977 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
33978 hibernation properties by
33979 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
33980 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
33981 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
33982 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
33983 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
33984 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
33985 get back to normal.)
33986 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
33988 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
33989 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
33990 to fill the last cell completely.
33991 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
33994 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
33995 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
33996 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
33997 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
33998 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
33999 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
34000 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
34001 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
34002 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
34003 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
34004 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
34006 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
34007 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
34008 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
34009 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
34010 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
34011 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
34012 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
34013 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
34015 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
34016 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
34017 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
34018 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
34019 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
34020 have it on start-up.
34023 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
34024 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
34025 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
34026 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
34027 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
34028 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
34029 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
34030 configuration to torrc.
34031 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
34032 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
34033 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
34034 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
34035 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
34037 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
34038 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
34039 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
34040 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
34041 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
34042 log more informatively.
34043 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
34044 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
34045 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
34046 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
34047 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
34048 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
34049 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
34050 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
34051 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
34052 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
34053 from each other, to hinder linkability.
34056 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
34057 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
34058 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
34059 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
34060 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
34061 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
34062 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
34064 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
34065 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
34066 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
34067 they ran out of file descriptors.
34068 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
34069 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
34070 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
34071 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
34072 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
34073 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
34074 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
34076 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
34079 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
34080 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
34081 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
34082 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
34083 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
34084 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
34085 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
34086 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
34087 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
34088 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
34089 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
34090 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
34091 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
34092 with the control port.
34093 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
34094 use in authenticating to the control interface.
34095 - New log format in config:
34096 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
34097 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
34100 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
34101 from their dirserver.
34102 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
34104 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
34105 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
34106 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
34107 them act more like real nodes.
34108 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
34109 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
34111 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
34112 nickname to its identity key.
34113 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
34114 not on the command line.
34115 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
34116 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
34117 1024) file descriptors.
34119 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
34120 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
34122 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
34123 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
34124 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
34127 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
34128 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
34129 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
34130 exit policy, not reject *:*.
34131 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
34132 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
34133 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
34134 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
34135 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
34136 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
34137 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
34140 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
34141 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
34142 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
34143 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
34144 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
34145 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
34146 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
34149 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
34150 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
34151 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
34152 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
34153 the ones we find in directories.)
34154 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
34156 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
34157 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
34159 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
34160 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
34161 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
34163 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
34164 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
34165 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
34166 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
34168 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
34169 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
34170 any more exit policy lines.
34173 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
34174 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
34175 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
34176 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
34177 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
34178 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
34179 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
34180 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
34181 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
34182 will be able to get a directory.
34183 - Http proxy support
34184 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
34185 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
34186 be routed through this host.
34187 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
34188 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
34189 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
34190 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
34193 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
34195 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
34196 clients/servers with an open dirport.
34197 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
34198 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
34199 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
34200 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
34201 intermittent connections.
34202 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
34203 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
34205 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
34206 in reporting stats locally.
34207 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
34208 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
34209 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
34212 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
34214 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
34215 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
34218 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
34220 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
34221 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
34222 if you don't want it open.
34223 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
34224 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
34225 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
34226 intermittent connections.
34227 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
34229 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
34230 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
34231 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
34232 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
34233 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
34234 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
34235 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
34236 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
34237 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
34238 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
34239 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
34240 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
34241 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
34242 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
34243 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
34244 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
34247 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
34248 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
34249 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
34250 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
34251 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
34253 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
34255 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
34256 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
34257 specified in HTTP 1.0.
34258 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
34259 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
34260 than once per minute.
34261 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
34262 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
34265 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
34266 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
34269 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
34270 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
34271 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
34272 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
34275 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
34276 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
34278 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
34279 don't put it into the client dns cache.
34280 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
34281 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
34282 until we get our next directory.
34284 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
34285 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
34286 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
34287 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
34288 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
34289 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
34290 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
34291 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
34292 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
34293 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
34294 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
34296 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
34298 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
34299 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
34301 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
34302 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
34303 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
34305 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
34307 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
34308 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
34309 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
34310 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
34311 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
34312 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
34313 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
34314 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
34317 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
34318 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
34319 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
34320 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
34323 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
34324 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
34325 ask them to resolve the host "".
34328 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
34329 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
34330 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
34331 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
34332 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
34333 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
34334 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
34335 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
34336 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
34337 clients don't use this yet.)
34338 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
34339 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
34340 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
34341 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
34342 for pointing out this bug.)
34343 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
34344 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
34345 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
34346 kazaa, gnutella ports.
34347 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
34349 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
34350 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
34351 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
34352 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
34353 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
34354 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
34355 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
34356 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
34357 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
34358 wolf unpredictably.
34359 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
34360 that's still handshaking.
34361 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
34362 you'll choose it for your path.
34363 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
34364 end relay cell, etc.
34365 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
34366 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
34367 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
34370 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
34371 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
34373 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
34374 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
34375 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
34376 list to decide who's running or verified.
34377 - Bugfixes and features:
34378 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
34379 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
34380 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
34381 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
34382 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
34383 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
34385 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
34386 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
34387 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
34388 know you might want to get it verified.
34389 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
34392 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
34394 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
34395 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
34396 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
34397 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
34399 o Protocol changes:
34400 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
34401 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
34402 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
34403 hadn't heard of before.
34406 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
34407 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
34408 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
34409 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
34410 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
34411 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
34412 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
34413 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
34414 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
34415 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
34416 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
34417 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
34418 - Directory caching.
34419 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
34420 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
34421 directory they've pulled down.
34422 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
34423 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
34424 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
34425 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
34426 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
34427 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
34428 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
34430 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
34431 This isn't used yet.
34432 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
34433 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
34434 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
34435 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
34436 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
34437 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
34438 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
34439 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
34440 - File and name management:
34441 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
34442 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
34444 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
34445 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
34446 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
34447 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
34448 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
34449 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
34450 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
34452 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
34453 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
34454 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
34455 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
34456 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
34458 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
34459 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
34460 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
34461 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
34462 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
34463 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
34464 - New docs in the tarball:
34466 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
34469 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
34470 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
34471 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
34474 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
34475 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
34476 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
34479 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
34480 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
34483 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
34484 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
34485 - Make it build on Win32 again.
34486 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
34487 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
34491 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
34493 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
34494 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
34495 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
34496 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
34497 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
34498 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
34499 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
34500 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
34501 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
34502 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
34505 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
34508 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
34509 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
34510 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
34511 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
34513 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
34514 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
34515 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
34517 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
34518 hidden service per 15-minute period.
34519 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
34520 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
34521 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
34522 o Fixes for security bugs:
34523 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
34524 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
34525 a trusted dirserver.
34527 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
34528 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
34529 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
34530 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
34531 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
34532 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
34533 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
34534 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
34535 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
34536 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
34538 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
34539 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
34540 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
34541 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
34543 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
34544 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
34545 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
34546 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
34547 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
34548 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
34549 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
34550 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
34551 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
34552 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
34553 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
34554 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
34555 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
34558 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
34559 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
34560 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
34561 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
34564 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
34565 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
34566 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
34567 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
34568 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
34569 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
34570 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
34574 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
34575 [version bump only]
34578 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
34579 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
34580 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
34581 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
34582 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
34584 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
34587 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
34588 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
34589 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
34590 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
34591 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
34592 o Better debugging for tls errors
34593 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
34594 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
34595 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
34596 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
34597 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
34598 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
34599 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
34600 o win32's close can't close a socket.
34603 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
34604 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
34605 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
34606 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
34607 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
34608 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
34609 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
34610 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
34611 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
34612 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
34613 just close the circ.
34614 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
34615 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
34616 (this was quite rare).
34619 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
34620 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
34621 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
34622 if you decrypted them correctly.
34623 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
34624 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
34625 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
34628 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
34629 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
34630 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
34631 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
34632 a second one and it works.
34633 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
34634 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
34635 alice would just have to wait to time out.
34636 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
34637 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
34638 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
34639 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
34640 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
34641 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
34642 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
34643 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
34644 i'd still like to find the bug though.
34645 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
34647 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
34651 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
34652 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
34653 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
34654 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
34655 he retries a couple of times
34656 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
34657 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
34658 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
34659 too long (they were sticking around forever).
34660 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
34664 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
34665 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
34666 - make hup work again
34667 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
34668 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
34669 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
34670 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
34671 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
34672 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
34674 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
34675 o changes from 0.0.5:
34676 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
34677 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
34678 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
34679 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
34680 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
34682 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
34683 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
34684 in-memory directories too
34687 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
34688 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
34691 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
34693 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
34694 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
34695 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
34696 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
34699 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
34700 [version bump only]
34703 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
34704 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
34706 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
34707 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
34708 but that aren't warnings
34711 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
34712 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
34713 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
34714 the dns farm to do it.
34715 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
34716 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
34718 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
34719 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
34720 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
34723 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
34724 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
34725 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
34726 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
34727 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
34728 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
34729 expect it to have a nickname.
34730 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
34731 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
34734 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
34735 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
34739 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
34740 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
34741 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
34742 - include missing header fcntl.h
34743 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
34744 - deal with hardware word alignment
34745 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
34746 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
34747 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
34748 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
34749 by kill -USR1 currently.
34750 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
34751 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
34752 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
34755 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
34756 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
34757 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
34760 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
34762 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
34763 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
34764 - And fix a few endian issues.
34767 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
34769 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
34770 try that circuit again: try a new one.
34771 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
34772 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
34773 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
34774 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
34775 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
34776 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
34778 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
34779 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
34780 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
34782 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
34784 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
34785 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
34786 side isn't reading right then.
34787 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
34788 RecommendedVersions
34789 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
34790 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
34791 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
34794 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
34796 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
34797 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
34800 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
34804 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
34806 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
34807 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
34808 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
34809 connection is finished.
34810 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
34811 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
34812 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
34813 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
34814 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
34815 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
34816 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
34817 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
34818 rather than warn and continue.
34819 - Make --version work
34820 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
34823 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
34825 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
34826 knows it's working.
34827 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
34828 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
34830 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
34831 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
34832 so you can collect coredumps there.
34834 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
34835 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
34836 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
34837 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
34838 dns cache actually gets populated.
34839 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
34840 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
34841 end cell down it first.
34842 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
34843 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
34846 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
34848 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
34849 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
34851 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
34852 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
34853 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
34854 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
34855 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
34856 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
34858 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
34860 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
34861 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
34862 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
34863 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
34864 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
34865 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
34867 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
34868 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
34871 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
34873 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
34874 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
34875 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
34876 tor. It even has a man page.
34877 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
34878 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
34879 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
34880 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
34882 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
34884 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
34887 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
34889 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
34890 it, apt-getters. :)
34891 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
34892 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
34893 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
34894 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
34895 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
34896 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
34897 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
34898 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
34899 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
34900 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
34901 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
34903 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
34904 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
34907 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
34909 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
34910 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
34913 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
34915 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
34916 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
34917 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
34918 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
34919 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
34920 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
34921 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
34922 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
34923 logfile so you know it's working.
34924 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
34925 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
34928 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
34930 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
34931 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
34932 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
34935 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
34937 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
34938 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
34939 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
34942 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
34943 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
34944 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
34946 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
34947 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
34949 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
34950 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
34951 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
34953 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
34954 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
34958 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
34960 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
34961 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
34962 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
34965 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
34966 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
34967 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
34968 - Add port ranges to exit policies
34969 - Add a conservative default exit policy
34970 - Warn if you're running tor as root
34971 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
34972 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
34973 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
34974 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
34976 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
34979 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
34980 o Robustness and bugfixes:
34981 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
34982 really screw things up.
34983 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
34985 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
34986 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
34988 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
34989 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
34990 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
34991 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
34992 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
34993 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
34996 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
34999 - Change default loglevel to warn.
35000 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
35001 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
35003 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
35006 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
35007 o Robustness and bugfixes:
35008 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
35009 - to get ownership/permissions right
35010 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
35011 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
35012 pull down a directory again
35013 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
35014 causing server crashes
35015 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
35016 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
35017 - exit if bind() fails
35018 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
35019 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
35020 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
35021 - fix minor bias in PRNG
35022 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
35025 - Wrote the design document (woo)
35027 o Circuit building and exit policies:
35028 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
35030 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
35031 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
35032 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
35033 exists, rather than failing
35034 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
35035 which AP connections are standing by
35036 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
35037 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
35038 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
35040 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
35041 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
35044 - APPort is now called SocksPort
35045 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
35047 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
35048 hardcoded (for dirservers)
35049 - Reloads config on HUP
35050 - Usage info on -h or --help
35051 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
35054 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
35055 o General stability:
35056 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
35057 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
35058 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
35059 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
35060 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
35061 to take down the network when I approve a new router
35062 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
35065 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
35066 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
35068 o Autoconf improvements:
35069 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
35070 - Make install now works
35071 - create var/lib/tor on make install
35072 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
35073 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
35075 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
35076 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
35077 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
35078 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup