1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
6 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
7 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
8 See below for more details.
10 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
11 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
12 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
13 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
14 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
16 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
17 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
18 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
21 o Minor features (compilation):
22 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
23 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
24 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
25 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
28 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
29 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
31 o Minor features (geoip data):
32 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
33 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
35 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
36 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
37 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
38 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
39 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
41 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
42 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
43 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
44 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
45 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
47 o Documentation (man, relay):
48 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
49 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
52 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
53 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
54 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
57 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
58 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
59 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
60 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
61 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
62 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
63 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
65 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
66 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
69 o Minor features (testing):
70 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
71 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
72 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
73 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
74 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
75 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
76 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
77 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
79 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
80 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
81 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
83 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
84 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
85 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
86 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
87 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
88 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
89 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
90 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
92 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
93 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
94 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
96 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
97 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
98 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
99 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
100 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
103 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
104 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
105 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
106 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
107 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
108 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
111 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
112 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
113 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
114 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
115 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
116 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
117 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
120 o Major feature (onion service v2):
121 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
122 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
123 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
124 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
126 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
127 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
128 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
129 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
131 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
132 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
133 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
134 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
136 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
137 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
140 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
141 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
142 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
143 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
144 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
146 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
147 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
148 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
149 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
150 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
151 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
152 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
153 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
154 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
155 fix for ticket 40337.
156 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
157 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
158 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
160 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
161 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
162 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
164 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
165 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
166 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
167 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
168 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
169 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
171 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
172 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
173 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
174 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
175 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
178 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
179 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
180 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
181 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
182 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
184 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
185 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
186 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
187 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
188 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
189 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
192 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
193 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
194 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
195 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
196 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
197 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
198 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
201 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
202 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
203 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
204 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
205 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
207 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
208 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
209 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
210 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
212 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
213 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
214 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
215 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
217 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
218 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
221 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
222 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
223 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
224 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
225 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
229 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
230 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
231 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
232 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
233 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
235 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
236 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
237 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
238 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
239 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
240 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
241 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
244 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
245 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
247 o Minor features (geoip data):
248 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
249 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
251 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
252 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
253 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
255 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
256 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid Address)
257 for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix on 0.4.6.2-alpha.
259 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
260 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
261 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
263 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
264 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW in
265 order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug 40301;
266 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
268 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
269 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
270 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
271 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
272 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
273 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
274 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
277 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
278 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
279 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
280 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
281 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
283 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
284 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
285 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
286 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
287 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
288 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
289 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
292 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
293 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
295 o Minor features (geoip data):
296 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
297 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
299 o Minor features (testing):
300 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the address set
301 bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
303 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
304 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
305 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
307 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
308 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
309 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
311 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.x):
312 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
313 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
314 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
315 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
316 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
317 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
319 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.x):
320 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some versions
321 of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
324 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
325 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
326 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
327 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
328 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
330 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
331 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
332 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
333 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
334 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
335 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
336 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
339 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
340 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
342 o Minor features (geoip data):
343 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
344 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
346 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
347 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
348 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
350 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
351 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
352 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
355 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
356 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
357 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
358 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
359 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
361 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
362 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
363 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
364 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
365 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
366 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
368 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
369 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
370 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
374 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
375 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
376 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
377 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
378 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
381 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
382 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
383 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
384 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
386 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.8. For a list of changes since
387 0.4.6.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
389 o Major bugfixes (security):
390 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
391 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
392 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
393 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
394 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
395 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
397 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
398 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
399 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
400 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
401 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
402 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
403 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
404 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
406 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
407 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
408 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
409 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
410 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
411 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
412 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
413 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
414 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
415 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
416 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
417 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
418 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
419 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
420 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
422 o Major features (control port, onion services):
423 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
424 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
425 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
428 o Major features (directory authority):
429 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
430 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
431 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
432 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
434 o Major features (metrics):
435 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
436 documents. This information is controlled with the
437 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
438 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
439 328; closes ticket 40222.
441 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
442 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
443 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
445 o Major features (statistics):
446 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
447 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
448 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
450 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
451 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
452 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
453 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
454 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
455 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
456 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
457 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
458 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
459 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
460 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
461 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
462 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
463 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
464 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
465 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
466 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
467 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
468 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
469 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
472 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
473 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
474 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
475 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
477 o Minor features (bridge):
478 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
479 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
480 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
482 o Minor features (build system):
483 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
484 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
485 this. Closes ticket 40227.
487 o Minor features (client):
488 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
489 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
490 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
491 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
493 o Minor features (command line):
494 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
495 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
498 o Minor features (command-line interface):
499 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
500 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
501 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
502 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
503 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
504 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
505 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
506 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
507 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
508 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
510 o Minor features (compatibility):
511 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
512 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
513 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
516 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
517 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
518 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
520 o Minor features (dormant mode):
521 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
522 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
523 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
524 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
525 control over whether the client can become dormant from
526 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
528 o Minor features (geoip data):
529 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
530 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
532 o Minor features (logging):
533 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
534 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
536 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
537 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
538 any). Closes ticket 40308.
539 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
540 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
541 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
543 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
544 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
545 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
546 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
547 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
549 o Minor features (onion services):
550 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
551 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
553 o Minor features (performance, windows):
554 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
555 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
556 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
557 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
559 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
560 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
561 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
563 o Minor features (tests, portability):
564 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
565 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
568 o Minor features (vote document):
569 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
570 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
571 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
573 o Minor bugfixes (build):
574 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
575 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
576 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
578 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
579 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
580 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
581 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
584 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
585 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
586 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
587 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
589 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
590 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
591 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
592 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
593 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
595 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
596 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
597 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
598 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
599 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
600 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
603 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
604 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
605 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
606 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
607 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
608 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
610 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
611 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
612 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
613 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
614 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
616 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
617 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
618 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
619 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
620 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
622 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
623 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
624 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
626 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
627 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
628 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
631 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
632 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
633 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
634 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
636 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
637 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
638 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
639 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
641 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
642 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
643 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
646 o Code simplification and refactoring:
647 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
648 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
649 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
652 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
653 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
654 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
655 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
656 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
657 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
658 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
659 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
660 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
661 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
664 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
665 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
666 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
668 o Documentation (manual):
669 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
671 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
672 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
673 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
674 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
676 o Removed features (relay):
677 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
678 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
679 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
680 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
681 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
684 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
685 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
686 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
687 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
688 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
690 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
691 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
692 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
693 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
694 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
695 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
696 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
698 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
699 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
700 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
701 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
702 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
703 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
704 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
705 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
707 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
708 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
709 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
710 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
711 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
712 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
713 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
714 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
715 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
716 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
717 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
718 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
719 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
720 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
721 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
723 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
724 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
725 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
726 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
729 o Minor features (geoip data):
730 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
731 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
733 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
734 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
735 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
736 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
737 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
738 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
741 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
742 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
743 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
747 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
748 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
749 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
750 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
751 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
753 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
754 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
755 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
757 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
758 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
759 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
760 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
761 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
762 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
763 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
765 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
766 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
767 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
768 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
769 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
770 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
771 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
772 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
774 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
775 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
776 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
777 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
778 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
779 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
780 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
781 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
782 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
783 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
784 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
785 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
786 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
787 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
788 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
790 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
791 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
792 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
793 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
796 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
797 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
798 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
800 o Minor features (geoip data):
801 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
802 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
804 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
805 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
806 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
807 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
809 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
810 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
811 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
814 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
815 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
816 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
817 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
818 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
820 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
821 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
822 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
823 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
824 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
825 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
826 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
828 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
829 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
830 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
831 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
832 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
833 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
834 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
835 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
837 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
838 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
839 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
840 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
841 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
842 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
843 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
844 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
845 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
846 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
847 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
848 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
849 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
850 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
851 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
853 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
854 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
855 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
857 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
858 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
859 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
860 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
863 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
864 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
865 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
867 o Minor features (geoip data):
868 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
869 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
872 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
873 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
874 from the 0.4.6.x series.
876 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
877 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
878 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
879 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
880 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
882 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
883 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
884 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
886 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
887 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
888 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
890 o Minor features (geoip data):
891 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
892 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
894 o Minor features (onion services):
895 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
896 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
897 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
899 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
900 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
901 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
902 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
904 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
905 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
906 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
907 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
909 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
910 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
911 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
912 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
914 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
915 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
916 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
918 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
919 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
920 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
921 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
923 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
924 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
925 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
926 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
928 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
929 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
930 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
934 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
935 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
936 in earlier versions of Tor.
938 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
939 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
940 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
941 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
942 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
943 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
944 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
945 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
946 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
949 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
950 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
953 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
956 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
957 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
958 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
959 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
960 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
961 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
962 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
963 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
964 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
967 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
968 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
969 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
970 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
971 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
972 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
973 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
974 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
977 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
978 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
982 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
983 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
984 in earlier versions of Tor.
986 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
987 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
988 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
989 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
990 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
991 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
992 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
993 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
994 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
997 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
998 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1001 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1002 compatibility issue.
1004 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1005 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1006 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1007 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1008 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1009 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1010 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1011 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1012 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1015 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1016 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1017 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1018 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1019 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1020 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1021 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1022 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1025 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1026 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1027 Closes ticket 40309.
1030 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
1031 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
1034 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1035 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1036 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1037 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1038 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1039 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1040 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1041 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1042 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1045 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1046 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1049 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
1050 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
1052 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1053 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1054 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1055 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1056 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1057 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1058 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1059 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1060 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1063 o Minor features (geoip data):
1064 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1065 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1066 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1067 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1068 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1069 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1070 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1073 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1074 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
1075 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
1076 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
1077 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
1079 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
1080 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
1081 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1083 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
1084 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
1085 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
1086 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
1087 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1089 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1090 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
1091 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1093 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1094 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
1095 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1097 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1098 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
1099 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1101 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1102 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
1103 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1104 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
1105 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
1106 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
1107 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
1108 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
1110 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
1111 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1112 Closes ticket 40309.
1115 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
1116 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
1117 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
1118 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
1119 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
1120 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
1121 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
1122 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
1123 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
1124 welcoming approach to growing our community.
1126 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
1127 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
1128 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
1129 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
1130 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
1131 smaller features and bugfixes.
1133 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
1134 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1136 o Major features (build):
1137 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
1138 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
1139 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
1140 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
1141 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
1143 o Major features (metrics):
1144 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
1145 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
1146 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
1147 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
1148 information and security considerations.
1150 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
1151 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
1152 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
1153 Closes ticket 33233.
1154 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
1155 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
1156 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
1157 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
1158 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
1159 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
1160 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
1161 use. Closes ticket 33220.
1162 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
1163 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
1164 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
1165 Closes ticket 34067.
1167 o Major features (tracing):
1168 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
1169 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
1170 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
1171 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
1172 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
1174 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
1175 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
1176 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
1177 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
1178 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1180 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
1181 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
1182 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
1183 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
1184 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
1185 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
1186 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1188 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
1189 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
1190 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
1191 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
1192 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
1193 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
1195 o Minor features (address discovery):
1196 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
1197 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
1198 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
1199 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
1201 o Minor features (admin tools):
1202 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
1203 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
1204 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
1207 o Minor features (authority, logging):
1208 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
1209 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
1210 Closes ticket 40245.
1212 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
1213 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
1214 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
1215 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
1216 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
1217 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
1219 o Minor features (build):
1220 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
1221 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
1222 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
1223 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
1224 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
1226 o Minor features (configuration):
1227 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
1228 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1229 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
1230 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
1231 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
1232 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1234 o Minor features (control port):
1235 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
1236 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
1237 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
1238 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
1240 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
1241 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
1242 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
1245 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
1246 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
1247 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
1248 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
1249 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
1250 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
1251 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1253 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1254 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
1255 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
1257 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
1258 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
1259 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1260 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
1261 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
1262 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
1263 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
1264 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
1265 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
1266 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
1267 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
1269 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
1270 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
1271 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
1272 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
1274 o Minor features (documentation):
1275 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
1276 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
1277 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
1279 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
1280 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
1281 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
1282 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1284 o Minor features (heartbeat):
1285 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
1286 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
1288 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
1289 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
1290 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1292 o Minor features (logging):
1293 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
1294 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
1295 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
1296 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
1297 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
1298 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
1300 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
1301 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
1302 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
1303 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
1305 o Minor features (onion services):
1306 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
1307 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
1308 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1310 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
1311 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
1312 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
1313 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
1314 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
1315 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
1317 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1318 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
1319 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
1320 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
1321 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
1323 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
1324 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
1325 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
1326 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
1327 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
1328 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
1329 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
1331 o Minor features (relay):
1332 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
1333 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
1334 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
1335 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
1336 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
1337 Closes ticket 34137.
1339 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
1340 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
1341 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
1344 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
1345 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
1346 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
1347 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
1348 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
1349 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
1350 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
1351 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
1352 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
1354 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
1355 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
1357 o Minor features (safety):
1358 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
1359 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
1362 o Minor features (specification update):
1363 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
1364 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
1365 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
1367 o Minor features (state management):
1368 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
1369 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
1370 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
1371 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
1372 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
1374 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
1375 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
1376 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
1377 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
1378 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
1380 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
1381 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
1382 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
1384 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1385 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
1386 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
1387 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
1388 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
1390 o Minor features (testing):
1391 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
1392 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1394 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1395 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
1396 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
1397 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
1399 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
1400 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
1401 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1402 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
1403 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
1404 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
1405 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
1406 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
1407 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1409 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
1410 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
1411 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
1412 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
1413 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
1414 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1416 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1417 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
1418 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
1419 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
1420 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
1421 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
1424 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1425 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
1426 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
1427 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
1428 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
1429 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
1432 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
1433 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
1434 when a stream is attached with the purpose
1435 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
1436 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1438 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
1439 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
1440 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
1441 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1443 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1444 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
1445 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
1446 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
1447 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
1448 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1449 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
1450 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
1452 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
1453 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
1454 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1455 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
1456 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
1457 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
1458 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
1459 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
1462 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1463 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
1464 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
1465 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1467 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
1468 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
1469 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
1470 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1471 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
1472 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
1473 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1475 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
1476 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
1477 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
1478 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
1479 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
1480 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1482 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
1483 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
1484 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1486 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
1487 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
1488 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1489 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
1490 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
1491 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
1492 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
1493 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1495 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1496 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
1497 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
1498 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
1499 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
1500 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
1501 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
1502 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
1503 Closes ticket 34200.
1504 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
1505 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
1506 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
1507 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
1508 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
1509 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
1510 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
1512 - Split implementation of several command line options from
1513 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
1514 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
1515 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
1516 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
1517 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
1520 o Deprecated features:
1521 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
1522 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
1523 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
1526 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
1527 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
1530 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
1531 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
1532 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
1533 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
1535 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
1536 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
1538 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
1539 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
1540 directory. Closes part of 40139.
1541 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
1542 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
1546 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
1547 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1549 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
1550 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
1551 31699; Patch by @bduszel
1553 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
1554 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
1555 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
1556 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
1557 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
1559 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
1560 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
1561 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
1562 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
1563 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
1565 o Documentation (manual page):
1566 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
1567 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
1568 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
1569 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
1571 o Documentation (tracing):
1572 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
1573 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
1575 o Removed features (controller):
1576 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
1577 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
1580 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
1581 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
1582 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
1583 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
1584 DoS attacks harder to perform.
1586 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1587 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1588 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1589 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1590 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1593 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
1594 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1595 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1596 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1599 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
1600 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1601 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1602 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1604 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
1605 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
1606 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
1607 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
1608 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
1610 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1611 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1612 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1613 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1614 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1615 weasel for diagnosing this.
1617 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1618 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1619 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1620 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1621 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1622 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1623 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1625 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1626 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
1627 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
1628 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1630 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1631 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
1632 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
1633 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1635 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
1636 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
1637 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
1638 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1639 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
1640 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
1641 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
1643 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
1644 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1647 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
1648 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
1649 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
1650 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
1651 DoS attacks harder to perform.
1653 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
1654 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
1656 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1657 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1658 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1659 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1660 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1663 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1664 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
1665 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
1666 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
1667 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1669 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
1670 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1671 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1672 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1675 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
1676 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1677 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1678 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1680 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
1681 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
1682 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
1683 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
1684 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
1686 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1687 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1688 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1689 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1690 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1691 weasel for diagnosing this.
1693 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1694 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1695 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1696 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1697 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1698 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1699 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1701 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1702 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1703 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1705 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1706 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
1707 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
1708 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1710 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1711 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
1712 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
1713 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1715 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
1716 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
1717 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
1718 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1719 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
1720 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
1721 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
1723 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
1724 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1727 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
1728 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
1729 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
1730 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
1731 DoS attacks harder to perform.
1733 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1734 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1735 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1736 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1737 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1740 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1741 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
1742 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
1743 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
1744 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1746 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
1747 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1748 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1749 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1752 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
1753 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1754 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1755 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1757 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
1758 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
1759 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
1760 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
1761 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
1763 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1764 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1765 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1766 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1767 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1768 weasel for diagnosing this.
1770 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1771 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1772 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1773 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1774 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1775 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1776 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1778 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1779 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1780 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1782 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1783 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
1784 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
1785 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1787 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1788 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
1789 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
1790 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1792 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
1793 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
1794 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
1795 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
1797 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
1798 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1801 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
1802 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
1803 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
1804 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
1805 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
1806 intended for a different relay.
1808 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1809 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
1810 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
1811 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
1812 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
1813 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
1814 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
1816 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1817 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
1818 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
1819 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
1820 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
1821 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
1822 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
1823 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
1824 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
1825 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
1826 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
1828 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1829 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1830 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1831 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1832 closes ticket 40133.
1834 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1835 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1836 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1838 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1839 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1840 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1842 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1843 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
1844 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
1845 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
1846 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1847 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1849 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1850 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1851 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1853 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1854 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1855 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1858 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1859 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
1860 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
1861 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1864 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
1865 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
1866 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
1867 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
1868 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
1870 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
1871 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
1872 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
1875 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1876 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1877 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1878 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1880 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1881 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
1882 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
1883 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
1884 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
1885 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
1886 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
1888 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1889 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
1890 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
1891 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
1892 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
1895 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1896 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
1897 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
1898 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
1899 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
1900 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
1902 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1903 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1904 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1905 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1906 closes ticket 40133.
1908 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1909 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
1910 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
1911 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
1913 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1914 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1915 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1917 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1918 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1919 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1921 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1922 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
1923 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
1924 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
1925 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1927 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1928 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1929 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1931 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1932 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
1933 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
1934 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
1935 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
1936 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
1937 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1939 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1940 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1941 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1944 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1945 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
1946 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
1947 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
1948 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
1949 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
1952 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
1953 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
1954 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
1955 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1957 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1958 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
1959 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
1960 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1962 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1963 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
1964 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1966 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1967 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
1970 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1971 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
1972 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
1973 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
1974 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
1975 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
1976 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
1979 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
1980 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
1981 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
1982 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
1983 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
1985 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1986 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1987 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1988 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1990 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1991 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
1992 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
1993 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
1994 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
1995 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
1996 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
1998 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1999 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2000 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2001 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2002 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2005 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2006 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2007 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2008 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2009 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2010 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2012 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
2013 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
2014 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
2015 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
2017 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2018 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2019 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2020 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2021 closes ticket 40133.
2023 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2024 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2025 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2026 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2028 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2029 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2030 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2032 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2033 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2034 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2036 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2037 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2038 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2039 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2040 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2042 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2043 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2044 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2046 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2047 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2048 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2049 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2050 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2051 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2052 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2054 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2055 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2056 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2059 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2060 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2061 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2062 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2063 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2064 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2067 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2068 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
2069 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
2070 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2072 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2073 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2074 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2075 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2077 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2078 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2079 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2081 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2082 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2085 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
2086 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
2087 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
2088 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
2089 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
2090 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
2091 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
2093 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
2094 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
2095 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
2096 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
2097 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
2099 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
2100 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
2101 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
2103 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
2104 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2106 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
2107 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
2108 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
2109 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
2110 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
2111 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
2112 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
2113 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
2114 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
2115 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
2117 o Major features (fallback directory list):
2118 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2119 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2120 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2122 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
2123 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
2124 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
2125 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
2126 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
2127 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
2128 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
2130 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
2132 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
2133 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
2134 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
2135 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
2137 o Major features (v3 onion services):
2138 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
2139 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
2140 Closes ticket 32709.
2142 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
2143 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2144 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2145 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2146 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2149 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
2150 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
2151 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
2152 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
2153 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
2154 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2156 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
2157 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2158 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2159 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2160 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2162 o Minor features (security):
2163 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2164 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2165 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2166 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2167 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2169 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2170 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
2171 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
2172 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
2173 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
2176 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
2177 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
2178 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
2179 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
2180 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
2181 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
2182 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
2184 o Minor features (code safety):
2185 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
2186 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
2187 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
2188 Resolves issue 33788.
2190 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2191 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
2192 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
2193 Resolves ticket 32143.
2195 o Minor features (control port):
2196 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
2197 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
2198 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2199 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
2200 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
2201 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
2202 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2204 o Minor features (defense in depth):
2205 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
2206 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
2208 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
2209 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
2210 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
2211 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
2212 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
2213 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
2215 o Minor features (developer tooling):
2216 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
2217 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
2218 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
2219 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
2220 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
2221 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
2222 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
2224 o Minor features (directory authority):
2225 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
2226 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
2227 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
2228 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
2229 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
2231 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
2232 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
2233 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
2234 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
2236 o Minor features (directory):
2237 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
2238 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
2239 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
2242 o Minor features (entry guards):
2243 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
2244 Closes ticket 40001.
2246 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
2247 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
2248 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
2250 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
2251 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
2252 Closes ticket 33901.
2254 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
2255 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
2256 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
2257 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
2258 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
2259 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
2260 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
2262 o Minor features (logging):
2263 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
2264 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
2266 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
2267 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
2268 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
2269 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
2272 o Minor features (onion service v3):
2273 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
2274 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2276 o Minor features (python scripts):
2277 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
2278 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
2279 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
2280 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
2282 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
2283 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
2284 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
2285 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
2286 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
2287 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
2288 up from ticket 33316.
2289 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2290 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2291 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2293 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
2294 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
2295 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
2296 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2298 o Minor features (windows):
2299 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
2300 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
2302 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
2303 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
2304 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
2305 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2307 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
2308 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2309 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2310 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2311 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2313 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2314 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
2315 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
2316 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
2317 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
2318 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2320 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2321 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
2322 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
2323 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2325 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
2326 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
2327 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
2328 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
2329 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2331 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
2332 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
2333 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2335 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
2336 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
2337 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
2338 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
2339 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
2340 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2341 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
2342 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
2343 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
2344 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2346 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2347 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
2348 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
2349 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
2350 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
2352 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
2353 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
2354 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
2355 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
2358 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
2359 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
2360 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
2361 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
2362 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2363 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
2364 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2366 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
2367 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
2368 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
2370 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
2371 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
2372 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2374 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
2375 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
2376 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2378 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
2379 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
2380 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
2383 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
2384 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
2385 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
2388 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
2389 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2390 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2391 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2392 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2393 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2394 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2396 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
2397 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
2398 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
2399 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
2401 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
2402 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
2403 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
2404 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
2405 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
2408 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
2409 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2410 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2411 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2412 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2413 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2416 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
2417 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
2418 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
2421 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
2422 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2423 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2424 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2426 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2427 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
2428 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2429 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
2430 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2433 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
2434 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2435 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2437 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2438 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
2439 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
2440 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
2441 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2442 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
2443 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
2444 isolated in subsystems of their own.
2445 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
2446 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
2447 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
2448 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
2450 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
2451 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2452 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
2453 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
2455 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
2456 code. Closes ticket 33014.
2457 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
2458 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
2461 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
2462 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
2463 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
2464 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
2465 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
2466 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2469 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
2470 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
2471 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
2472 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
2473 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
2474 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
2475 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
2476 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
2477 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
2478 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
2479 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2480 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
2481 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
2484 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
2485 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
2486 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
2487 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
2488 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
2489 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2490 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
2491 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
2493 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
2494 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2496 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2497 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2498 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2499 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
2500 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
2501 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
2502 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
2503 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
2504 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
2505 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
2506 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2507 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2509 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
2510 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2513 o Documentation (manual page):
2514 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
2515 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
2516 Google Season of Docs.
2517 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
2518 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
2519 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
2520 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
2521 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
2522 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
2523 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
2524 Closes ticket 33778.
2527 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
2528 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
2529 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
2531 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
2532 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
2533 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
2534 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
2535 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
2536 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
2537 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
2540 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2541 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
2542 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2543 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
2546 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2547 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
2548 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
2549 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
2550 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
2551 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2553 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2554 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
2555 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
2556 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
2557 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
2558 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
2560 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2561 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
2562 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
2564 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2565 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
2566 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
2567 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
2570 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2571 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
2572 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
2573 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
2576 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
2577 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
2578 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
2579 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
2580 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
2582 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2583 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
2584 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
2586 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2587 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
2588 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
2589 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
2590 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
2593 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2594 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
2595 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
2596 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
2597 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
2598 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2600 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2601 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
2602 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
2603 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2605 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2606 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
2607 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
2608 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2611 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2612 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
2613 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
2614 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
2615 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
2616 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2617 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
2618 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
2622 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
2623 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
2624 several that affect usability and portability.
2626 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
2627 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
2628 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
2629 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
2630 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
2631 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
2632 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
2635 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2636 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
2637 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2638 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
2641 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2642 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
2643 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
2644 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
2645 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
2646 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2648 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
2649 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
2650 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
2651 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
2652 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
2654 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2655 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
2656 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
2657 code. Closes ticket 33290.
2659 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2660 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
2661 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
2662 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
2663 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
2664 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
2666 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2667 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
2668 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
2670 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2671 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
2672 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
2673 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
2676 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2677 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
2678 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
2679 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
2682 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
2683 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
2684 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
2685 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
2686 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
2687 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
2690 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2691 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
2692 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
2694 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2695 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
2696 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
2697 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2699 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2700 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
2701 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
2702 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
2703 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
2706 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2707 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
2708 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
2709 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
2710 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
2711 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2713 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
2714 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
2715 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
2716 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
2717 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2719 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2720 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
2721 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
2722 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
2724 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2725 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
2726 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
2727 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2729 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2730 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
2731 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
2732 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2735 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2736 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
2737 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
2738 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
2739 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
2740 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2741 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
2742 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
2746 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
2747 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
2748 some affecting usability.
2750 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
2751 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
2752 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
2753 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
2754 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
2755 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
2756 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
2759 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2760 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
2761 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2762 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
2765 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2766 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
2767 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
2769 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2770 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
2771 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
2772 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
2775 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2776 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
2777 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
2779 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2780 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
2781 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
2782 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2784 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2785 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
2786 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
2787 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2789 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2790 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
2791 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2793 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2794 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
2795 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
2796 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
2797 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2799 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2800 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
2801 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
2803 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2804 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
2805 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
2806 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2808 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2809 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
2813 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
2814 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
2815 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
2816 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
2817 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
2818 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
2821 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
2822 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
2823 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
2824 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
2825 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
2827 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
2828 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
2829 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
2832 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
2833 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2835 o New system requirements:
2836 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
2837 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
2838 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
2840 o Major features (build system):
2841 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
2842 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
2843 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
2844 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
2845 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
2847 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
2848 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
2849 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
2850 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
2851 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2853 o Major features (onion services):
2854 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
2855 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
2856 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
2857 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
2858 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
2859 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
2860 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
2862 o Major features (proxy):
2863 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
2864 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
2865 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
2866 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
2867 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
2868 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
2870 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
2871 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
2872 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
2873 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
2874 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
2875 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
2876 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2877 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
2878 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
2880 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
2881 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
2882 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
2883 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
2884 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
2886 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
2887 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
2888 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
2889 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
2890 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
2892 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
2893 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
2894 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
2895 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
2896 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
2897 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2899 o Major bugfixes (networking):
2900 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
2901 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
2902 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2904 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
2905 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
2906 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
2907 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
2908 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
2909 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2911 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
2912 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
2913 message. Closes ticket 31371.
2915 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
2916 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
2917 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
2918 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
2919 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
2921 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
2922 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
2923 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
2924 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
2926 o Minor features (configuration validation):
2927 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
2928 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
2929 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
2930 Closes ticket 31241.
2932 o Minor features (configuration):
2933 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
2934 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
2936 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
2937 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
2938 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
2939 Implements ticket 32404.
2941 o Minor features (configure, build system):
2942 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
2943 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
2945 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2946 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
2947 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
2948 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
2949 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
2950 Closes ticket 33075.
2952 o Minor features (controller):
2953 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
2954 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
2955 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
2957 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
2958 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
2959 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
2960 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
2962 o Minor features (defense in depth):
2963 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
2964 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
2967 o Minor features (developer tools):
2968 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
2969 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
2970 Closes ticket 32772.
2971 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
2972 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
2973 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
2974 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
2975 target. Closes ticket 31919.
2976 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
2977 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
2978 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
2980 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
2981 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
2982 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
2983 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
2985 o Minor features (diagnostic):
2986 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
2987 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
2988 code. Closes ticket 33290.
2990 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2991 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2992 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
2993 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2995 o Minor features (Doxygen):
2996 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
2997 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
2998 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
3000 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
3001 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
3002 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
3003 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
3004 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
3005 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
3006 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
3007 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
3009 o Minor features (git scripts):
3010 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
3011 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
3012 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
3013 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
3014 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
3015 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
3016 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
3017 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
3018 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
3019 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
3020 Closes ticket 32216.
3021 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
3022 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
3023 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
3024 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
3026 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
3027 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
3028 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
3029 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
3030 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
3031 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
3033 o Minor features (portability, android):
3034 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
3035 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
3036 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
3038 o Minor features (relay modularity):
3039 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
3040 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
3041 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
3042 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
3043 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
3044 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
3045 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
3046 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
3047 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
3049 o Minor features (release tools):
3050 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
3051 Closes ticket 32704.
3053 o Minor features (testing):
3054 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3055 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3056 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3057 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3058 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3059 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
3060 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
3061 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
3062 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
3063 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
3064 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
3066 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
3067 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
3068 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
3070 o Minor features (usability):
3071 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
3072 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
3073 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
3075 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
3076 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3077 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3078 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3081 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
3082 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3083 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3085 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3086 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
3087 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
3089 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
3090 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3091 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3092 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3093 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3094 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3097 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
3098 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
3099 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
3100 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3101 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
3102 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
3103 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
3104 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
3105 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
3106 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
3107 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
3108 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
3109 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
3110 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3111 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
3112 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
3113 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
3114 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3116 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3117 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
3120 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3121 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3122 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3123 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3125 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3126 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
3127 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
3130 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
3131 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
3132 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
3134 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
3135 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
3136 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
3137 Closes ticket 32213.
3138 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
3139 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
3140 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3142 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
3143 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3144 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3145 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3146 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3149 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3150 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
3152 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
3153 Closes ticket 32216.
3155 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
3156 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3157 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3158 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3159 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3160 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3162 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3163 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
3164 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3165 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3166 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3167 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3168 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
3169 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
3171 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3172 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3173 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3174 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3176 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
3177 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
3178 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
3179 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3181 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
3182 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
3183 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
3184 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
3185 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
3186 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
3187 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
3188 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
3191 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3192 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3193 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3194 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3196 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
3197 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
3198 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
3199 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3200 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3201 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3202 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3204 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
3205 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
3206 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
3207 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
3208 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3210 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3211 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
3212 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
3213 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
3216 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
3217 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
3218 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
3219 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
3220 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3222 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3223 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
3224 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
3225 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3227 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
3228 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3229 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3230 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3232 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
3233 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
3234 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3236 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3237 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
3238 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
3239 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
3241 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
3242 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3243 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
3244 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
3245 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
3246 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
3247 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3249 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
3250 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
3251 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
3252 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
3253 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
3255 o Deprecated features:
3256 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
3257 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
3258 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
3262 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
3263 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
3264 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
3265 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
3266 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
3267 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
3268 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
3269 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
3271 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
3272 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
3275 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
3276 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
3277 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
3278 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
3279 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
3280 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
3282 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
3283 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
3284 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
3285 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
3286 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
3289 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
3290 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
3291 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
3292 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
3293 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
3295 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
3296 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
3298 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
3299 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
3300 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
3301 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
3302 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
3305 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
3306 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
3307 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
3309 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
3310 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
3311 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
3312 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
3313 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
3314 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
3315 Solves part of ticket 32339.
3316 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
3317 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
3318 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
3319 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
3320 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
3321 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
3322 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
3323 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
3324 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
3325 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
3327 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
3328 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
3330 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
3331 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
3332 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
3334 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
3335 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
3336 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
3337 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
3338 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
3339 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
3341 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
3342 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
3343 Closes ticket 32163.
3344 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
3346 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
3348 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
3349 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
3350 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
3352 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
3353 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
3354 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
3355 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
3356 Closes ticket 32304.
3357 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
3358 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
3359 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
3360 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
3361 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
3364 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
3365 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
3367 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
3370 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
3371 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
3372 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
3373 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
3374 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
3375 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
3376 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
3377 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
3379 o Documentation (manpage):
3380 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
3381 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
3382 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3383 Google Season of Docs.
3384 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
3385 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
3386 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
3387 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
3388 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3389 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
3391 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
3393 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
3394 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
3395 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
3397 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
3398 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
3399 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3401 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
3402 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3403 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3404 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3405 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3406 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3407 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3408 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3411 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
3412 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
3415 o Testing (Travis CI):
3416 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3417 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3418 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3420 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3421 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3422 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3423 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3424 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3427 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
3428 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
3429 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3430 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
3431 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
3432 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
3433 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
3434 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
3435 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
3436 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
3437 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
3438 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
3440 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3441 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3442 as soon as packages are available.
3444 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3445 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3446 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3447 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3448 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3449 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3450 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3451 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3452 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3454 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3455 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3456 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3457 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3458 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3460 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3461 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
3462 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
3463 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
3464 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
3466 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3467 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3468 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3469 Closes ticket 33075.
3471 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3472 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3473 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3475 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3476 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3477 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3478 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3479 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3482 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3483 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3484 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3485 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3488 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3489 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3490 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3491 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3493 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3494 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3495 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3496 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3498 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3499 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3500 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3501 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3502 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3505 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
3506 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
3507 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
3508 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
3509 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
3510 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
3511 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
3512 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
3513 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
3514 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
3515 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
3516 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
3518 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3519 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3520 as soon as packages are available.
3522 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3523 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3524 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3525 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3526 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3527 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3528 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3529 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3530 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3532 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3533 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3534 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3535 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3536 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3538 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3539 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3540 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3542 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3543 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3544 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3545 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3546 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3549 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3550 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3551 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3552 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3555 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3556 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3557 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3558 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3560 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3561 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3562 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3563 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3565 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3566 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3567 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3568 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3569 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3572 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
3573 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
3574 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
3575 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
3576 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
3577 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
3578 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
3579 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
3580 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
3581 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
3582 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
3585 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3586 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3587 as soon as packages are available.
3589 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3590 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3591 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3592 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3593 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3594 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3595 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3596 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3597 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3599 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3600 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
3601 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
3602 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
3603 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
3604 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
3605 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
3606 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
3609 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3610 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3611 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3612 Closes ticket 33075.
3614 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3615 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3616 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3618 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3619 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
3620 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
3621 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
3622 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3624 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3625 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3626 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3627 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3628 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3631 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3632 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3633 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3634 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3637 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3638 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3639 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3640 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3642 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3643 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
3644 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
3645 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
3646 Closes ticket 32629.
3647 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
3648 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
3649 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
3651 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3652 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
3654 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3655 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3656 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3657 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3659 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3660 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3661 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3662 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3665 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
3666 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
3667 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
3668 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
3669 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
3670 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
3672 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3673 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
3674 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
3675 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
3676 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
3677 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
3678 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
3679 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
3681 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
3682 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
3683 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
3685 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3686 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
3687 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
3688 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3690 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3691 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
3692 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
3693 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3695 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3696 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
3697 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
3698 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3699 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
3700 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
3703 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3704 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
3705 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3707 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3708 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
3709 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
3710 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
3711 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
3712 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
3713 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
3714 Closes ticket 32629.
3716 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3717 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
3720 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
3721 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
3722 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
3723 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
3724 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
3725 current version of 0.4.1.x.
3727 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3728 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
3729 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
3730 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
3731 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
3732 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
3733 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
3734 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
3736 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
3737 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
3738 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
3740 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
3741 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
3742 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
3743 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
3744 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3746 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3747 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
3748 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3750 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3751 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
3752 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
3753 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
3754 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
3755 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
3756 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
3757 Closes ticket 32629.
3759 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3760 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
3763 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
3764 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
3765 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
3766 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
3767 bugs present in previous series.
3769 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
3770 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
3771 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
3772 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
3774 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
3775 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3777 o Major features (directory authorities):
3778 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
3779 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
3780 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
3782 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
3783 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
3784 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
3785 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
3786 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
3787 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
3790 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
3791 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
3792 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
3793 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
3794 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
3795 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
3798 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
3799 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
3800 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
3801 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
3802 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3803 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
3804 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
3805 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
3806 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3808 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
3809 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
3810 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
3811 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3813 o Major bugfixes (relay):
3814 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
3815 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
3816 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
3817 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
3818 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
3819 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
3820 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3822 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
3823 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
3824 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
3825 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
3826 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3828 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3829 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
3830 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
3831 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
3832 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
3835 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
3836 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
3837 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
3838 Closes ticket 29669.
3840 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
3841 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
3842 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
3843 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
3844 Closes ticket 31779.
3846 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
3847 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
3848 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
3849 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
3850 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
3851 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
3852 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
3853 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
3854 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
3855 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
3856 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
3857 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
3858 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
3859 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
3860 files. Closes ticket 31175.
3862 o Minor features (build system):
3863 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
3864 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
3865 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
3866 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
3867 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
3869 o Minor features (compilation):
3870 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
3871 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
3872 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
3874 o Minor features (configuration):
3875 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
3876 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
3877 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
3878 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
3880 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3881 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
3882 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
3883 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
3884 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
3885 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
3886 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
3888 o Minor features (debugging):
3889 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
3890 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
3891 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
3892 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
3894 o Minor features (geoip):
3895 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
3896 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
3898 o Minor features (git hooks):
3899 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
3900 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
3901 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
3902 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
3903 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
3905 o Minor features (git scripts):
3906 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
3907 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
3908 push. Closes ticket 31314.
3909 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
3910 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
3911 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
3912 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
3913 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
3914 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
3915 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
3916 Closes ticket 31314.
3917 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
3918 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
3919 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
3920 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
3921 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
3922 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
3923 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
3924 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
3925 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
3927 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
3928 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
3929 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
3932 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
3933 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
3934 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
3936 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
3937 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
3938 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
3939 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
3940 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
3941 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
3942 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
3944 o Minor features (onion service v3):
3945 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
3946 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
3948 o Minor features (onion service):
3949 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
3950 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
3951 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
3952 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
3954 o Minor features (onion services v3):
3955 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
3956 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
3959 o Minor features (stem tests):
3960 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
3961 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
3964 o Minor features (testing):
3965 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
3966 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
3967 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
3968 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
3969 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
3970 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
3971 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
3972 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
3973 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
3974 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
3975 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
3976 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
3977 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
3978 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
3979 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
3981 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
3982 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
3983 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
3984 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
3986 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
3987 Closes ticket 31859.
3988 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
3989 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
3991 o Minor features (token bucket):
3992 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
3993 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
3995 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
3996 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
3997 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3999 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
4000 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
4001 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
4002 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4003 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
4004 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
4005 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
4006 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
4009 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4010 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
4011 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4012 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
4014 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
4015 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4016 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
4017 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
4018 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4019 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4020 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4022 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
4023 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
4024 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
4025 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
4026 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
4027 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
4029 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
4030 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4031 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4032 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4033 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4034 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4036 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
4037 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
4038 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4040 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4041 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
4042 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
4043 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
4044 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
4046 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4047 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4048 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4050 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4051 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
4052 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
4053 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
4055 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
4056 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4057 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4058 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4060 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4061 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
4062 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
4063 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4065 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
4066 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
4067 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
4068 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
4069 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
4070 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
4071 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
4072 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
4073 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
4074 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4076 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
4077 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4078 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4079 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4080 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4082 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
4083 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
4084 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
4087 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4088 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
4089 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4091 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
4092 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
4093 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4094 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4095 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4096 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4097 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4098 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4099 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4100 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
4101 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
4102 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
4105 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
4106 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4107 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4108 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4111 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
4112 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
4113 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
4114 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4116 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4117 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
4118 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
4119 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4120 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
4121 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4122 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
4123 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
4124 Closes ticket 31678.
4126 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
4127 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4128 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4129 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4130 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4132 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
4133 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
4134 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
4135 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
4136 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4137 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
4138 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
4139 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
4140 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
4143 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4144 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
4145 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4146 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
4147 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4148 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4149 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4150 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4151 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4152 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
4153 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4154 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4155 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4157 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
4158 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
4159 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
4161 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
4162 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4163 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4164 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4166 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
4167 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4168 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4169 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4170 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4173 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
4174 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
4175 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
4178 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
4179 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
4180 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
4183 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
4184 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
4185 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
4187 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
4188 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
4189 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
4190 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
4191 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
4192 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4194 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
4195 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
4196 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
4197 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4200 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4201 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
4202 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
4203 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
4204 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4206 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4207 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
4208 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
4209 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
4210 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
4211 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4213 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
4214 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
4215 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
4216 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4218 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
4219 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4220 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4222 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4223 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4224 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4226 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4227 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4228 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4229 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4231 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
4232 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4233 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4234 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
4235 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4237 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
4238 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
4239 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
4240 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4242 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
4243 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
4244 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
4245 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
4246 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4248 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
4249 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
4250 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
4251 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
4252 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
4255 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4256 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
4257 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
4259 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4260 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4261 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4262 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4263 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
4264 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
4267 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
4268 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
4269 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4271 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
4272 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4273 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4276 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
4277 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4278 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4279 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4280 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4281 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4283 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4284 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
4285 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
4286 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
4287 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4289 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
4290 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4291 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
4292 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
4293 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
4294 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4295 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4296 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4297 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4298 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4300 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4301 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
4302 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
4303 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
4304 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
4305 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
4306 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
4308 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
4312 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
4313 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4314 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
4315 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
4316 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
4317 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
4318 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
4319 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
4321 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
4322 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
4323 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
4324 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
4325 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
4326 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
4327 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
4328 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
4329 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
4330 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
4331 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4332 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4333 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4336 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
4337 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
4338 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
4339 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
4340 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
4341 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
4343 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
4347 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
4348 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
4349 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4350 Closes ticket 32500.
4351 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
4352 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
4353 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
4354 Closes ticket 30967.
4356 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
4357 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
4358 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
4359 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
4360 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
4361 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
4362 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
4363 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
4364 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
4365 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
4366 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
4367 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
4368 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
4369 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
4370 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
4371 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
4373 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4374 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
4375 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
4376 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
4377 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
4378 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
4379 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
4380 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
4381 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
4382 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
4384 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
4385 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
4386 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
4388 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
4389 Closes ticket 30806.
4390 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
4391 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
4394 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
4395 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
4396 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
4398 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
4399 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
4400 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4402 o Testing (continuous integration):
4403 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4404 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4405 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4406 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4407 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4408 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4409 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4410 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4411 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4414 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
4415 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
4416 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
4417 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
4419 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4420 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
4421 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
4422 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
4424 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4425 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
4426 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
4427 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4429 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4430 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4431 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4432 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4433 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4434 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4435 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4436 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4438 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4439 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4440 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4441 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4442 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4444 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4445 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4446 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4447 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4448 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4451 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4452 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4453 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4454 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4456 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4457 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4458 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4460 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4461 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
4462 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4464 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4465 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4466 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4467 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4468 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4469 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4471 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
4472 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4473 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4474 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4476 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4477 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4478 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4479 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4480 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4481 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4482 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4483 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
4484 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
4485 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
4488 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4489 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
4490 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4491 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
4492 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4493 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4494 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4495 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4496 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4498 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4499 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4500 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4501 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4503 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4504 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4505 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4506 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4507 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4510 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4511 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
4512 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
4514 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4515 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4516 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4518 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4519 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4520 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4522 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4523 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4524 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4525 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4527 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4528 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4529 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4530 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4531 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4533 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4534 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
4535 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4537 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4538 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4539 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4542 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4543 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
4544 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
4546 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4547 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4548 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4549 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4551 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4552 Closes ticket 31859.
4553 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4554 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4556 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4557 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4558 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4559 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4560 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4561 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4562 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4563 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4564 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4565 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4567 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4568 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
4569 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
4570 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4571 Closes ticket 32500.
4574 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
4575 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
4576 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
4577 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
4578 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
4580 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
4581 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
4582 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
4583 support until 1 Feb 2022.
4585 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
4586 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
4589 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4590 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
4591 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
4592 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
4593 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
4594 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
4595 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
4596 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
4597 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
4598 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
4599 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4601 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4602 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4603 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
4604 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
4605 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
4606 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4608 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4609 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
4610 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
4611 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
4612 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
4615 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4616 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
4617 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
4618 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
4619 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
4621 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
4622 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
4623 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
4624 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
4627 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4628 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4629 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4630 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4631 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4632 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4633 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4634 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4636 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4637 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4638 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4639 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4640 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4642 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4643 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4644 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4645 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4646 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4649 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4650 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
4651 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
4653 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4654 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
4655 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
4658 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4659 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
4660 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
4662 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4663 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4664 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4665 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4667 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4668 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
4669 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
4670 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
4671 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
4673 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4674 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4675 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4677 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4678 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4679 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4682 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4683 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
4684 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4686 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4687 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4688 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4690 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4691 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
4692 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4694 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4695 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
4696 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
4699 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4700 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4701 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4702 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4703 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4704 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4706 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4707 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
4708 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
4709 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
4710 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4712 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4713 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
4714 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
4717 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4718 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
4719 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4721 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4722 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4723 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4724 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4726 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4727 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
4728 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
4729 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4731 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4732 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
4733 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
4734 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4736 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
4737 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4738 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4739 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4741 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4742 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
4743 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4744 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
4745 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4746 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
4747 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4749 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4750 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
4751 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
4752 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4754 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4755 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
4756 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
4757 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4759 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4760 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
4761 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
4764 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4765 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4766 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4767 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4768 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4769 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4770 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4772 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4773 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4774 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4775 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4778 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4779 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4780 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4781 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4782 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4784 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4785 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
4786 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
4787 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
4788 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4790 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4791 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4792 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4795 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4796 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4797 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4798 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4799 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4801 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4802 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4803 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4804 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4806 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4807 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4808 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4809 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4810 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4813 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4814 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
4815 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
4818 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4819 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
4820 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
4821 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4823 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4824 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
4825 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
4826 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
4828 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4829 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4830 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
4831 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4833 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4834 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4835 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4836 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4839 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4840 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4841 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4842 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4843 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4844 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4847 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4848 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4849 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4851 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4852 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4853 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4855 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4856 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4857 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4858 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4860 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4861 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4862 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4864 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4865 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4866 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4867 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4868 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4870 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4871 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4872 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4875 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4876 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4877 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4878 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4879 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4880 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4881 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4882 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4883 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4884 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4886 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4887 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4888 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4889 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4891 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4892 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
4893 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
4894 Resolves issue 29702.
4896 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4897 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4899 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4900 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
4901 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
4902 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
4905 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4906 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4907 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4908 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4910 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4911 Closes ticket 31859.
4912 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4913 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4915 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4916 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4917 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4918 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4919 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4920 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4921 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4922 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4923 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4924 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4926 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4927 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
4928 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
4929 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4930 Closes ticket 32500.
4933 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
4934 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
4935 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
4938 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
4939 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
4942 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4943 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
4944 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
4945 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
4946 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
4947 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
4948 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
4949 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
4950 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
4951 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
4952 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4954 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4955 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4956 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
4957 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
4958 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
4959 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4961 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4962 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
4963 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
4964 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
4965 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
4966 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4968 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4969 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
4970 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
4971 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
4972 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
4975 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4976 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
4977 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
4978 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
4979 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
4981 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
4982 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
4983 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
4984 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
4987 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4988 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4989 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4990 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4991 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4993 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4994 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4995 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4996 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4997 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5000 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5001 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
5002 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
5003 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
5004 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
5005 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
5006 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
5007 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5009 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5010 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
5011 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
5012 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
5013 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
5016 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5017 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5018 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5020 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5021 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
5022 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
5025 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5026 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
5027 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
5028 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
5030 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5031 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5032 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5035 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5036 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5037 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5039 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5040 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5041 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5042 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5044 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5045 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5046 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5047 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5048 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5050 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5051 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5052 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5054 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5055 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
5056 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
5057 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
5059 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5060 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5061 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5064 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5065 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
5066 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
5067 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
5068 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5069 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
5070 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
5071 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
5072 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
5073 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
5074 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
5075 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
5076 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
5079 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5080 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
5081 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
5082 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
5083 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
5085 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
5086 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
5087 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5089 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5090 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5091 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5093 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5094 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5095 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5097 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5098 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
5099 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
5102 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5103 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5104 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5106 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5107 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5108 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5109 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5110 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5111 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5113 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5114 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5115 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5116 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5117 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5119 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5120 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5121 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5124 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5125 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
5126 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5128 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5129 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5130 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5132 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5133 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5134 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5135 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5137 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5138 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5139 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5140 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5142 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5143 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5144 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5145 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5147 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5148 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5149 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5150 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5152 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5153 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5154 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5155 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5156 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5157 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5158 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5160 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5161 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5162 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5163 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5165 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5166 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5167 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5168 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5170 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5171 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5172 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5175 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5176 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5177 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5178 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5179 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5180 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5181 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5183 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5184 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5185 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5186 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5189 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5190 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5191 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5192 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5193 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5195 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5196 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
5197 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5199 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5200 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
5201 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
5202 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
5203 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5204 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
5205 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
5206 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
5207 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5208 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
5209 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5211 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5212 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5213 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5214 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5215 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5217 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5218 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5219 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5222 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5223 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5224 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5225 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5226 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5228 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5229 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5230 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5231 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5233 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5234 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5235 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5236 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5237 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5240 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5241 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5242 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5245 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5246 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
5247 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
5248 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5250 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5251 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
5252 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
5253 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5255 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5256 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
5257 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5259 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5260 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5261 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
5262 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5264 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5265 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5266 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5267 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5270 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5271 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5272 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5273 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5274 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5275 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5278 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5279 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5280 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5281 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5283 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5284 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
5285 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5287 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5288 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5289 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5291 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5292 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
5293 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
5294 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
5295 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
5296 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
5297 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
5299 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5300 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
5301 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
5304 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5305 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
5306 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
5307 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
5308 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
5309 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
5310 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
5311 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5313 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5314 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
5315 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
5316 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5317 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
5318 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
5321 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5322 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5323 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5324 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5325 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5327 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
5328 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
5329 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
5330 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
5331 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
5332 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
5333 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
5334 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5336 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5337 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5338 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5341 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5342 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5343 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5344 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5345 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5346 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5347 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5348 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5349 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5350 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5352 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5353 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
5354 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
5355 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
5356 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
5357 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5359 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5360 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5361 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5362 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5364 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5365 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5366 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5367 Resolves issue 29702.
5369 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5370 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5372 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5373 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5374 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5375 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5378 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5379 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5380 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5381 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5383 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5384 Closes ticket 31859.
5385 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5386 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5388 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5389 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5390 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5391 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5392 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5393 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5394 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5395 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5396 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5397 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5399 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5400 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5401 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5402 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5403 Closes ticket 32500.
5406 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
5407 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5408 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
5409 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
5412 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5413 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
5414 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
5415 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
5416 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5417 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
5418 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
5419 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
5420 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5422 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5423 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5424 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5427 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5428 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5429 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5431 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5432 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
5433 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
5434 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
5435 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
5437 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5438 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5439 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5441 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5442 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
5443 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
5444 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5446 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5447 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5448 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5449 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5452 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5453 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5454 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5455 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5456 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5458 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5459 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5460 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5463 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5464 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5465 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5467 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5468 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5469 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5470 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5471 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5472 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5474 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5475 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5476 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5477 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5478 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5479 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5480 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5481 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5482 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5483 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5485 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5486 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5487 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5488 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5491 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
5492 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
5493 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
5494 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
5495 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
5496 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
5497 bugfixes on earlier versions.
5499 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
5500 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
5501 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5502 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5504 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
5505 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5507 o Directory authority changes:
5508 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5511 o Major features (circuit padding):
5512 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
5513 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
5514 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
5515 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
5516 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
5517 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
5518 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
5519 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
5520 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
5522 o Major features (code organization):
5523 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
5524 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
5525 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
5526 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
5529 o Major features (controller protocol):
5530 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
5531 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
5532 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
5533 Closes ticket 30091.
5535 o Major features (flow control):
5536 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
5537 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
5538 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
5539 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
5540 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
5541 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
5542 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
5544 o Major features (performance):
5545 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
5546 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
5547 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
5549 o Major features (performance, RNG):
5550 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
5551 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
5552 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
5553 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
5554 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
5555 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
5556 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
5557 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
5559 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
5560 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5561 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5562 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5563 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5564 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5565 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5566 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5567 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5568 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5569 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5571 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
5572 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5573 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5575 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5576 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5577 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5578 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5579 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5581 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
5582 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5583 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5584 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5585 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5588 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
5589 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5590 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5591 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5592 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5594 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5595 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5596 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5597 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5600 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
5601 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
5602 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
5603 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
5604 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
5605 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
5608 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
5609 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
5610 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
5611 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
5613 o Minor features (circuit padding):
5614 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
5616 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
5617 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
5618 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
5619 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
5620 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5621 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
5622 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
5624 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
5625 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5626 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5628 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5629 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5630 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5631 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
5632 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
5634 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5635 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5637 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5639 o Minor features (controller):
5640 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
5641 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
5642 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5644 o Minor features (debugging):
5645 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
5646 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
5647 can use format strings to include information for trouble
5648 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
5650 o Minor features (defense in depth):
5651 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
5652 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
5653 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
5654 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
5655 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
5656 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
5657 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
5658 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
5659 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
5661 o Minor features (developer tools):
5662 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
5663 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
5664 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
5665 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
5666 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
5668 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
5669 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
5671 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
5672 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
5674 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5675 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5676 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5677 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5678 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5680 o Minor features (geoip):
5681 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5682 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
5683 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5684 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
5686 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
5687 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
5688 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
5690 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
5691 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
5692 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
5693 addresses. Implements 26992.
5695 o Minor features (logging):
5696 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
5697 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
5698 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
5699 Closes ticket 30686.
5701 o Minor features (maintenance):
5702 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
5703 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
5704 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
5706 o Minor features (modularity):
5707 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
5708 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
5710 o Minor features (performance):
5711 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
5712 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
5713 Closes ticket 28837.
5715 o Minor features (testing):
5716 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
5717 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
5718 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
5719 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
5721 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
5722 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
5723 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
5724 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
5725 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
5726 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
5727 Implements ticket 29732.
5728 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
5729 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
5731 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
5732 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
5734 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
5735 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
5736 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
5737 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
5738 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
5739 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5741 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
5742 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
5743 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
5744 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5746 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
5747 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5748 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5750 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
5751 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
5752 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5753 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
5754 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
5755 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
5756 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5757 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
5758 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
5759 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5760 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
5761 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5762 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
5763 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
5764 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5765 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
5766 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
5767 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5769 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
5770 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5771 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5772 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5773 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5775 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
5776 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
5777 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
5778 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
5779 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
5780 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5782 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
5783 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5784 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
5787 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5788 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5789 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5791 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
5792 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5793 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5794 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5796 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
5797 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5798 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5799 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5801 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
5802 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5803 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5804 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5805 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5806 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5807 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5809 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5810 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
5811 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
5812 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
5813 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
5815 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
5816 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5817 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5818 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5820 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
5821 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
5822 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
5825 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5826 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5827 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5828 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5829 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5830 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5832 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
5833 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5834 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5836 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
5837 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
5838 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5839 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
5840 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
5841 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
5843 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
5844 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
5846 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5847 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5848 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5849 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5850 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5851 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
5852 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
5855 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5856 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5857 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5859 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
5860 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
5863 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
5864 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
5865 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
5866 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
5868 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5869 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5870 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
5871 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5872 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
5873 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
5874 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
5875 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
5877 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
5878 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
5879 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5880 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
5881 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
5882 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
5883 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5885 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
5886 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
5887 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
5888 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
5889 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
5890 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5892 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
5893 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5894 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5895 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5898 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5899 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
5900 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
5901 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
5902 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5904 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5905 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
5906 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
5908 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
5909 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5910 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5911 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5912 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5913 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5916 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
5917 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
5918 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
5921 o Minor bugfixes (python):
5922 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
5923 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
5924 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5926 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5927 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
5928 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
5929 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
5930 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5932 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
5933 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
5934 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
5935 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
5937 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
5938 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
5939 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
5940 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
5941 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
5943 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5944 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
5945 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
5946 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5947 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
5948 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5949 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
5950 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5951 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
5952 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
5953 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
5954 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
5955 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5957 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
5958 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
5959 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
5960 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
5961 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5963 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5964 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
5965 port. Implements ticket 30007.
5966 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
5967 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
5968 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
5969 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
5970 string to directory connection with or without compression.
5971 Resolves issue 28816.
5972 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
5973 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
5974 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
5975 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
5976 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
5977 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
5978 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
5979 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
5980 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
5981 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
5982 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
5983 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
5984 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
5985 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
5986 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
5987 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
5988 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5989 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
5990 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5991 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
5992 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
5993 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
5994 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
5995 Closes ticket 29894.
5996 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
5997 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
5998 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
5999 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
6002 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
6003 Closes ticket 30630.
6004 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
6005 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
6009 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
6010 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
6011 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
6012 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
6016 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6017 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6018 Resolves issue 29702.
6020 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
6021 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
6022 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
6023 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
6024 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
6025 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
6026 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
6027 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
6028 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
6029 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
6030 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
6033 o Testing (chutney):
6034 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
6035 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
6036 Closes ticket 27251.
6038 o Testing (continuous integration):
6039 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
6040 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6041 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
6042 Closes ticket 30694.
6045 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
6046 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
6047 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
6048 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
6049 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
6050 long-term maintainability.
6052 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
6053 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
6054 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6055 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6057 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
6058 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6060 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
6061 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
6062 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
6063 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
6064 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
6065 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
6067 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
6068 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
6070 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
6071 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
6074 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
6075 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
6076 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
6077 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
6078 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
6079 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
6080 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
6081 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
6082 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
6085 o Major features (circuit padding):
6086 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
6087 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
6088 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
6089 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
6090 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
6091 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
6092 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
6093 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
6096 o Major features (refactoring):
6097 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
6098 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
6099 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
6100 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
6103 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6104 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6105 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6106 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6107 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6108 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6109 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6110 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6112 o Major bugfixes (networking):
6113 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
6114 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
6115 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
6116 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6118 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
6119 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6120 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6121 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6122 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6123 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6125 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
6126 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
6127 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
6128 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
6129 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
6130 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
6131 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6133 o Minor features (address selection):
6134 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6135 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6136 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6137 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6138 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6139 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6140 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6142 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
6143 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6144 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6145 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6146 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6148 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
6149 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
6150 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
6153 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
6154 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
6155 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
6156 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
6157 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
6160 o Minor features (compilation):
6161 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
6162 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
6163 Patches from "Mangix".
6165 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6166 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6167 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6169 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
6171 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6172 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6173 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6175 o Minor features (controller):
6176 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
6177 Implements ticket 28843.
6179 o Minor features (developer tooling):
6180 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
6181 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
6182 release. Closes ticket 27761.
6183 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
6184 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
6185 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
6187 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
6188 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
6189 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
6191 o Minor features (diagnostic):
6192 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
6193 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
6196 o Minor features (directory authority):
6197 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
6198 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
6199 Closes ticket 26698.
6200 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
6201 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
6202 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
6203 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
6206 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
6207 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
6208 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
6209 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
6210 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
6211 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
6212 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
6214 o Minor features (dormant mode):
6215 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
6216 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
6217 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
6218 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
6219 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
6220 background. Closes ticket 29357.
6222 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
6223 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
6224 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
6226 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
6227 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
6228 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
6229 Closes ticket 28518.
6231 o Minor features (geoip):
6232 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6233 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
6235 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
6236 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
6237 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
6238 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
6240 o Minor features (IPv6):
6241 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
6242 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
6243 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
6244 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
6245 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
6246 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6247 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
6248 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
6249 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
6250 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6252 o Minor features (log messages):
6253 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
6254 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
6257 o Minor features (memory usage):
6258 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
6259 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
6260 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
6261 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
6262 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
6264 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
6265 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6266 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6267 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6269 o Minor features (parsing):
6270 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
6271 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
6272 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
6274 o Minor features (performance):
6275 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
6276 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
6277 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
6278 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
6280 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
6281 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
6282 Closes ticket 28852.
6283 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
6284 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
6285 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
6286 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
6287 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
6288 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
6290 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
6291 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
6292 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
6293 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
6294 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
6296 o Minor features (process management):
6297 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
6298 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
6299 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
6300 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
6301 module. Closes ticket 28847.
6303 o Minor features (relay):
6304 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
6305 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
6306 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
6308 o Minor features (required protocols):
6309 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
6310 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
6311 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
6312 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
6313 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
6314 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
6315 297; closes ticket 27735.
6317 o Minor features (testing):
6318 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
6320 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
6321 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
6322 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
6323 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
6326 o Minor bugfixes (security):
6327 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6328 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6329 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6330 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6331 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6332 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6333 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6334 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6336 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6337 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6338 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6339 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6341 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
6342 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6343 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6344 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6345 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6347 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6348 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6349 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6351 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
6352 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6353 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6354 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6356 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
6357 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6358 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6361 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
6362 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
6363 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
6364 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
6365 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
6368 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6369 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
6370 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6371 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6372 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6373 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
6374 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
6375 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6377 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
6378 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
6379 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6381 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
6382 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
6383 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
6384 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6386 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
6387 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
6388 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
6389 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
6390 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
6392 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6393 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
6394 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
6395 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
6397 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
6398 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
6399 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
6400 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
6401 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
6402 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
6403 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6405 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
6406 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
6407 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
6408 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
6411 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
6412 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
6413 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
6415 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6416 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6417 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6418 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6419 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6420 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6421 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6422 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6423 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6424 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6425 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6426 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6427 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6428 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
6429 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
6430 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
6431 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6432 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
6433 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
6434 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
6435 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
6436 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
6438 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
6439 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6440 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6441 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6442 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6443 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6445 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
6446 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
6447 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
6448 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
6449 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6451 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
6452 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
6453 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
6454 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6456 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
6457 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
6458 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
6459 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
6460 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
6461 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6463 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6464 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
6465 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
6467 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
6468 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
6469 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
6471 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6472 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6473 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6474 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6476 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
6477 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
6478 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
6479 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6481 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6482 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
6483 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
6484 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
6485 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6487 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
6488 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6489 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6491 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
6492 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
6493 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
6494 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
6495 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
6498 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
6499 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
6500 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
6501 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6503 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
6504 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6505 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6506 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6507 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6508 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6509 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6511 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
6512 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6513 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6516 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6517 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6518 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6519 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6520 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6521 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6523 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6524 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6525 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6526 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6527 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6528 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6529 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6530 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
6531 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6532 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
6533 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6534 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
6535 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
6536 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
6537 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6538 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
6539 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6540 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
6541 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
6543 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
6544 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
6545 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
6546 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6547 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
6548 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
6550 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
6551 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6552 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6553 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6554 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6555 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6556 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6557 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6559 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
6560 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
6561 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6563 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
6564 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
6565 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
6566 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
6567 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6569 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
6570 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6571 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6572 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6573 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6574 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6576 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6577 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
6578 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
6579 Resolves issue 28816.
6580 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
6581 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
6582 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
6583 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
6584 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
6586 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
6587 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
6588 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
6589 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
6590 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
6591 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
6592 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
6593 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
6597 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
6598 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
6599 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
6600 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
6601 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
6602 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
6603 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
6604 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
6605 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
6607 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
6610 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
6611 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
6612 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
6613 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
6614 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
6615 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
6616 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
6617 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
6620 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
6622 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
6623 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
6625 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
6626 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
6627 code from client and service into one function. Closes
6630 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
6631 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
6633 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
6634 Resolves ticket 28006.
6635 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
6636 Resolves ticket 28012.
6637 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
6638 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
6639 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
6640 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
6644 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
6645 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
6646 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
6649 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
6650 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
6651 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6653 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6654 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6655 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6656 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6657 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6658 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6659 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6660 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6662 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6663 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
6664 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
6665 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
6666 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6668 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6669 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
6670 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
6671 Patches from "Mangix".
6673 o Minor features (geoip):
6674 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6675 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6677 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6678 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
6681 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6682 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
6683 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
6684 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
6685 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
6686 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6688 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6689 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
6690 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
6691 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
6694 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6695 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6696 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6697 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6699 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6700 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
6701 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
6704 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6705 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
6706 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
6707 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6709 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6710 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
6711 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
6712 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
6714 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6715 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
6716 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
6717 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
6718 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
6719 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
6721 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6722 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
6723 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
6724 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
6725 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6727 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6728 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
6729 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
6730 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
6731 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6733 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6734 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
6735 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
6737 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
6738 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
6739 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
6741 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6742 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6743 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6744 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6746 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6747 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
6748 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6750 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6751 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
6752 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6753 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
6754 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
6757 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6758 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
6759 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
6760 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
6761 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6764 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
6765 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
6766 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
6767 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
6768 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6770 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6771 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6772 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6773 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6774 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6775 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6776 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6777 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6779 o Minor features (geoip):
6780 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6781 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6783 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6784 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6785 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6786 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6788 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6789 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6790 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6791 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6792 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6795 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
6796 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
6797 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
6798 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6800 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
6801 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
6802 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
6803 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
6805 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6806 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6807 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6808 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6809 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6810 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6811 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6812 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6814 o Minor features (geoip):
6815 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6816 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6818 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6819 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6820 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6821 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6823 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6824 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6825 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6826 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6827 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6830 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
6831 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
6832 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
6833 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
6834 to this version, or to a later series.
6836 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
6837 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
6838 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
6839 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
6840 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
6841 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
6843 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6844 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
6845 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
6846 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
6847 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
6850 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6851 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
6852 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
6853 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6855 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6856 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
6857 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
6858 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
6859 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
6860 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
6861 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
6862 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
6864 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6865 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
6866 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
6867 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
6869 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6870 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
6871 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
6872 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
6873 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
6875 o Minor features (geoip):
6876 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6877 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
6879 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6880 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
6881 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
6882 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
6883 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
6884 Closes ticket 28973.
6886 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
6887 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
6888 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
6889 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
6891 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6892 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
6893 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
6896 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6897 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
6898 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
6900 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6901 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
6902 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
6903 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6905 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6906 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
6907 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
6908 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6910 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6911 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
6912 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
6913 were the same, the default setting (0) for
6914 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
6915 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
6918 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6919 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
6920 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
6923 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6924 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
6925 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
6926 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
6927 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6929 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6930 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
6931 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
6932 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
6933 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6935 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6936 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
6937 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
6938 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
6939 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
6940 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6942 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
6943 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
6944 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
6947 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
6948 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
6949 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
6951 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6952 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
6953 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6955 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
6956 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
6957 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
6960 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6961 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
6962 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
6963 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
6964 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
6965 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6966 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
6967 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6969 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
6970 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
6971 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
6972 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
6974 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6975 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
6976 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6977 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
6978 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
6979 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6980 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
6981 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
6982 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
6983 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
6985 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
6986 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
6987 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
6988 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
6989 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
6990 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
6992 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
6993 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
6994 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
6995 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
6996 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6998 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
6999 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7000 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7003 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
7004 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
7005 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
7006 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
7009 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
7010 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
7011 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
7014 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7015 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7016 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7017 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7018 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7021 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7022 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
7023 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
7024 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
7025 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
7026 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
7027 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
7029 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7030 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
7031 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
7034 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7035 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
7036 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
7037 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
7038 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
7041 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7042 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7043 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7044 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7045 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7047 o Minor features (geoip):
7048 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7049 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
7051 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7052 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7053 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7054 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7055 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7056 Closes ticket 28973.
7058 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7059 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7060 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7061 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7063 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7064 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
7065 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
7066 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
7067 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
7070 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7071 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
7072 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
7073 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
7075 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
7076 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
7077 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7079 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7080 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
7081 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
7082 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
7084 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7085 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7086 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7087 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7088 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7089 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7092 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7093 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7094 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7096 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7097 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7098 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7099 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7100 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7102 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7103 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7104 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7105 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7106 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7107 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7109 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7110 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7111 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7112 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7114 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7115 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7116 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7119 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
7120 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
7121 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
7122 affecting directory caches.
7124 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
7125 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
7126 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
7127 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
7128 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
7129 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
7130 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
7131 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
7133 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
7134 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
7135 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
7136 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
7137 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
7138 so it will recognize them.
7140 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
7141 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
7142 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
7143 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
7144 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
7145 with the latest stable release.)
7147 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
7148 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7150 o Major features (bootstrap):
7151 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
7152 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
7153 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
7154 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
7156 o Major features (new code layout):
7157 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
7158 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
7159 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
7160 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
7161 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
7162 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
7163 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
7165 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
7166 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
7167 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
7169 o Major features (onion services v3):
7170 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
7171 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
7172 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
7173 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
7174 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
7175 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
7176 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
7177 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
7178 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
7179 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
7180 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
7181 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
7182 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
7183 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
7184 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
7185 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
7186 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
7187 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
7189 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
7190 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
7191 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
7192 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
7193 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
7194 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
7196 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
7197 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
7198 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
7199 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
7200 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
7201 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
7202 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
7204 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
7205 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
7206 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
7207 (if present), and restart Tor.
7209 o Major features (relay, UI change):
7210 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
7211 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
7212 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
7213 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
7214 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7215 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
7216 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
7218 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
7219 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
7220 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7222 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
7223 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
7224 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
7225 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
7226 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
7227 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7229 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
7230 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
7231 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
7232 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
7235 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
7236 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
7237 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
7238 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
7239 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7241 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
7242 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
7243 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
7244 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
7245 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7247 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
7248 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
7249 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
7250 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
7251 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
7252 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
7254 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
7255 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7256 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7257 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7258 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7261 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
7262 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
7263 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
7264 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
7265 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
7266 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
7268 o Major bugfixes (relay):
7269 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
7270 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
7271 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
7272 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
7274 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
7275 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
7276 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
7277 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
7278 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
7279 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
7281 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
7282 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7283 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7284 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7286 o Minor features (admin tools):
7287 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
7288 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
7291 o Minor features (build):
7292 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
7293 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
7294 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
7295 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
7297 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
7298 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
7299 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
7300 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
7301 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
7303 o Minor features (code layout):
7304 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
7305 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
7306 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
7307 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
7310 o Minor features (compilation):
7311 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
7312 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
7313 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
7314 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
7315 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
7316 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
7319 o Minor features (config):
7320 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
7323 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7324 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
7326 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
7327 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
7328 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7329 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7330 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7331 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
7332 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
7334 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
7335 Implements ticket 27252.
7336 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7337 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7338 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7339 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7340 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7341 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7342 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7343 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7344 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7346 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
7347 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
7348 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
7350 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
7351 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
7353 o Minor features (controller):
7354 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
7355 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
7356 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
7357 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
7358 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
7359 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
7360 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
7361 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
7363 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
7364 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
7365 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
7366 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
7368 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
7369 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
7370 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
7371 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7373 o Minor features (development):
7374 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
7375 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
7377 o Minor features (directory authority):
7378 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
7379 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
7380 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
7381 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
7383 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
7384 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
7387 o Minor features (embedding API):
7388 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
7389 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
7390 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
7391 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
7392 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
7393 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
7396 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7397 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7398 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7399 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7400 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7402 o Minor features (geoip):
7403 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7404 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
7406 o Minor features (memory management):
7407 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
7408 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
7411 o Minor features (memory usage):
7412 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
7413 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
7414 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
7416 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
7417 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7418 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7419 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7420 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7421 Closes ticket 28973.
7423 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
7424 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
7425 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
7427 o Minor features (performance):
7428 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
7429 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
7430 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
7431 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
7432 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
7433 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
7434 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
7435 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
7436 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
7437 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
7439 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
7440 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
7441 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
7442 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
7444 o Minor features (testing):
7445 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
7446 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
7448 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
7449 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
7450 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
7452 o Minor features (UI):
7453 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
7454 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
7455 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
7456 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
7457 Closes ticket 26703.
7459 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
7460 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
7461 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
7462 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
7463 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7465 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
7466 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
7467 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7468 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
7469 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7472 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
7473 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
7474 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
7475 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7477 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7478 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
7479 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
7480 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7481 - Use time_t for all values in
7482 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
7483 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
7484 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7486 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
7487 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
7488 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
7489 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
7490 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
7493 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
7494 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
7495 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
7496 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
7497 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
7498 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7500 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
7501 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
7502 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
7503 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7505 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
7506 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7507 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7510 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7511 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7512 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7513 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7515 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7516 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
7517 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
7520 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
7521 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
7522 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
7523 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
7524 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
7526 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
7527 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
7528 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
7529 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
7530 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
7533 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
7534 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
7535 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7536 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
7537 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
7538 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
7539 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7540 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
7541 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
7542 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
7543 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
7544 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
7545 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
7547 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
7548 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
7549 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7551 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7552 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
7553 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
7554 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
7555 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
7558 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7559 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
7560 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
7561 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
7562 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
7564 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
7565 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
7566 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7568 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
7569 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7570 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7571 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7572 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7573 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7576 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
7577 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
7578 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
7581 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
7582 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
7583 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
7584 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
7585 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7587 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7588 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
7589 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
7592 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7593 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
7594 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
7596 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
7597 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
7598 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
7599 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
7600 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
7601 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
7603 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
7604 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
7605 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
7606 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
7607 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7609 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7610 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7611 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7612 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
7613 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7615 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
7616 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7617 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7619 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
7620 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
7621 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
7622 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
7625 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7626 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7627 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7628 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7629 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7630 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7631 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
7632 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
7633 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
7635 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
7636 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
7638 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
7639 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
7640 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
7641 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
7642 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7643 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7644 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7645 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7646 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7647 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7648 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7650 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
7651 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
7652 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
7653 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7655 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
7656 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
7657 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
7658 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
7659 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
7661 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
7662 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
7663 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
7664 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
7666 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
7667 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7668 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7671 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
7672 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
7674 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7675 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7676 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7677 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7678 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7679 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7680 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7681 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7682 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7683 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7685 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
7686 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
7687 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
7688 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
7689 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7691 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
7692 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7693 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7694 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7696 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7697 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
7698 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
7699 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
7700 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
7701 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7702 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7703 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
7704 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
7705 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7707 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7708 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
7709 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
7710 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7711 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7712 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7713 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
7714 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
7715 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
7717 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
7718 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
7719 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7720 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
7721 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7722 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7723 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7724 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7725 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7726 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7727 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
7728 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
7729 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7730 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
7731 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7733 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
7734 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
7735 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
7736 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
7737 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
7738 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
7739 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
7740 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
7742 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
7743 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
7744 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
7745 reported by Keifer Bly.
7747 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7748 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
7749 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
7751 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
7752 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
7753 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
7754 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
7755 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
7756 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
7757 Closes ticket 27814.
7758 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
7759 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
7760 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
7761 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
7762 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
7763 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
7764 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
7765 Closes ticket 27799.
7766 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
7767 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
7768 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
7769 directory within the top-level src directory.
7770 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
7771 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
7772 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
7773 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
7774 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
7775 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
7776 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
7777 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
7778 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
7779 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
7780 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
7781 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
7782 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
7783 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
7784 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
7785 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
7786 Closes ticket 21349.
7787 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
7788 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
7789 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
7790 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
7791 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
7792 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
7793 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
7795 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
7796 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
7797 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
7800 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
7801 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
7802 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
7803 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
7804 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
7805 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
7806 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
7807 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
7808 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
7811 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
7812 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
7813 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
7814 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
7815 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
7816 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
7817 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
7818 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
7819 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
7820 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
7821 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
7822 Closes ticket 26367.
7825 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
7826 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
7828 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
7829 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
7830 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
7831 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
7832 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
7833 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
7834 Closes ticket 19566.
7836 o Documentation (onion services):
7837 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
7838 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
7839 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
7840 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
7841 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
7842 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
7843 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
7844 process. Closes ticket 28275.
7847 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
7848 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
7849 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
7850 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
7851 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
7853 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7854 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
7855 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7857 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7858 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
7859 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
7860 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
7861 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7863 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7864 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
7865 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
7866 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
7867 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
7870 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7871 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7872 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7873 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7875 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7876 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
7877 Implements ticket 27252.
7878 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7879 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7880 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7881 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7882 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7883 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7884 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7886 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7887 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7888 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7889 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7891 o Minor features (geoip):
7892 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7893 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
7895 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7896 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
7897 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
7898 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
7899 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7901 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
7902 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
7903 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7904 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
7905 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7908 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7909 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7910 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7913 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7914 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
7915 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
7916 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
7917 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7919 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7920 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7921 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7923 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7924 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
7925 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7927 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7928 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7929 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
7930 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7932 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7933 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
7934 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7936 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7937 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
7938 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
7941 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7942 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7943 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7945 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7946 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7947 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7950 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7951 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7952 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7953 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7954 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7956 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7957 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
7958 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
7959 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
7960 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
7961 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7963 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7964 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7965 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7968 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7969 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7970 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7971 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7972 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7973 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7974 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7975 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7977 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7978 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7979 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7980 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7982 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7983 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7984 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7985 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7986 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7988 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7989 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7990 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7991 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7992 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7993 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7995 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7996 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7997 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7998 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7999 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8000 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8002 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8003 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
8004 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
8005 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
8008 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8009 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8010 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8011 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8012 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8015 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
8016 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
8018 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8019 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8020 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8021 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8023 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8024 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8026 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8027 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8028 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8029 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8031 o Minor features (geoip):
8032 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8033 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8035 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8036 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8037 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8038 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8040 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8041 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8042 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8043 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8044 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8045 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8046 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8047 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8050 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8051 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8052 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8053 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8055 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8056 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8057 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8058 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8060 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8061 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8062 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8063 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8065 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8066 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8067 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8068 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8069 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8071 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8072 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8073 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8076 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8077 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8078 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8079 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8080 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8082 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8083 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8084 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8087 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8088 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8089 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8090 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8092 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8093 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8094 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8096 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8097 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8098 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8101 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8102 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8103 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8104 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8105 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8107 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8108 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8109 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8112 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
8113 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8115 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8116 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8117 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8118 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8120 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8121 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8123 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8124 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8125 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8126 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8128 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8129 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8132 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8133 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8134 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8135 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8137 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8138 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8139 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8140 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8142 o Minor features (geoip):
8143 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8144 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8146 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8147 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8148 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8149 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8150 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8151 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8152 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8154 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8155 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8156 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8157 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8158 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8159 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8160 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8161 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8164 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8165 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8166 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8167 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8169 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8170 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8171 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8172 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8174 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8175 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8176 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8177 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8178 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8180 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8181 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8182 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8183 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8184 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8186 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8187 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8188 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8191 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8192 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8193 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8194 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8195 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8197 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8198 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8199 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8202 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8203 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8204 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8207 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8208 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8209 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8212 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8213 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8215 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8216 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8217 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8218 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8220 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8221 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8222 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8223 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8225 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8226 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8227 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8229 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8230 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8231 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8232 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8233 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8234 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8235 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8238 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
8239 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
8240 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
8241 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
8242 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8244 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8245 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8246 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8247 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8248 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8250 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8251 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8252 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8255 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
8256 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8258 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8259 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
8260 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
8261 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
8263 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8264 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8265 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8266 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8268 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8269 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
8270 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8272 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8273 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8274 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8275 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8277 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8278 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8281 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8282 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8283 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8284 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8286 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8287 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8288 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8289 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8291 o Minor features (geoip):
8292 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8293 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8295 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8296 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8297 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8298 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8299 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8300 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8301 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8303 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8304 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8305 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8306 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8307 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8308 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8309 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8310 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8313 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8314 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8315 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8316 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8318 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8319 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8320 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8321 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8323 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8324 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8325 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8326 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8327 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8329 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8330 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8331 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8332 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8333 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8335 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8336 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8337 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8340 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8341 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
8342 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
8343 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8345 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8346 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8347 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8348 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8349 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8351 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8352 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8353 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8356 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8357 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8358 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8361 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8362 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8363 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8366 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8367 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
8368 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
8369 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8371 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8372 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
8373 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
8376 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8377 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8379 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8380 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8381 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
8382 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
8383 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8384 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
8385 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
8387 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8388 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8389 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
8390 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
8391 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8393 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8394 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8395 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8396 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8398 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8399 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8400 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8402 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8403 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8404 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8405 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8406 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8407 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8408 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8411 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8412 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8413 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8414 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8415 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8417 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8418 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
8419 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
8420 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
8421 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8423 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8424 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8425 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8428 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
8429 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8430 compilation and portability fixes.
8432 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
8433 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
8434 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
8435 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
8436 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
8437 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
8438 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
8439 our anti-denial-of-service code.
8441 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
8442 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8444 o New system requirements:
8445 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
8446 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
8447 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
8448 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
8450 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
8451 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
8452 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
8453 To disable the module, the configure option
8454 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
8455 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
8457 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
8458 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
8459 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
8460 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
8461 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
8462 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
8463 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
8464 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
8465 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
8466 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
8467 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
8469 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
8470 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
8471 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
8472 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
8473 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
8474 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
8475 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
8476 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
8477 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
8478 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
8479 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
8480 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
8481 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
8482 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
8483 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
8484 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
8485 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
8486 Tor's uptime (26009).
8488 o Minor features (accounting):
8489 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
8490 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
8491 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
8492 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
8494 o Minor features (bug workaround):
8495 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
8496 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
8497 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
8499 o Minor features (code quality):
8500 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
8501 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
8502 Closes ticket 25024.
8504 o Minor features (compatibility):
8505 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8506 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8507 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8508 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
8509 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
8510 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
8512 o Minor features (compilation):
8513 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8514 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8515 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8516 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8517 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8518 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8519 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8520 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8523 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
8524 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
8525 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
8526 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
8527 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
8528 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
8530 o Minor features (configuration):
8531 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
8532 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
8533 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
8534 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
8535 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
8537 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8538 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
8539 Implements ticket 27449.
8540 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
8541 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
8543 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
8544 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8546 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8547 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8548 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
8549 Implements ticket 27275.
8550 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8551 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8552 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
8553 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
8554 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
8556 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
8557 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8560 o Minor features (control port):
8561 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
8562 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
8563 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
8564 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8565 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
8566 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
8567 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
8568 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
8569 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
8570 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
8572 o Minor features (controller):
8573 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8574 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8575 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8577 o Minor features (directory authorities):
8578 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
8579 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
8580 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
8581 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8582 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8583 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8585 o Minor features (directory authority):
8586 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
8587 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
8588 Closes ticket 23909.
8590 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
8591 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
8592 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
8593 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
8595 o Minor features (entry guards):
8596 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
8597 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
8599 o Minor features (geoip):
8600 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8601 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8603 o Minor features (performance):
8604 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
8605 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
8606 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
8607 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
8609 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
8610 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
8612 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
8613 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
8615 o Minor features (testing):
8616 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
8617 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
8619 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
8620 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
8621 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
8622 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
8623 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
8624 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
8626 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
8627 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
8628 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
8629 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
8630 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
8632 o Minor features (unit tests):
8633 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
8634 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
8635 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
8638 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
8639 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
8640 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
8641 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
8642 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
8643 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
8645 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8646 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
8647 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
8648 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
8650 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
8651 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
8652 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8653 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
8654 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
8656 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8657 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8658 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8659 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8660 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8661 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8662 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8663 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8665 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
8666 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
8667 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
8668 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
8669 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
8670 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
8671 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8672 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
8673 Closes ticket 26245.
8674 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
8675 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
8676 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8678 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
8679 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8680 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8681 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8683 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
8684 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8685 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8686 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8687 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8689 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
8690 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
8691 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
8692 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
8693 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8694 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
8695 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
8696 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
8697 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
8698 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
8699 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
8700 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8702 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
8703 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
8704 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
8707 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8708 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8709 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8712 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
8713 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
8714 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8715 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
8716 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
8717 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
8720 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
8721 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
8722 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
8723 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
8724 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
8725 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
8726 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
8728 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
8729 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
8730 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
8731 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8733 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8734 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8735 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8736 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8737 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8739 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8740 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8741 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8744 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8745 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8746 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8748 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8749 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8751 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
8752 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
8753 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
8754 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
8755 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8757 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8758 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
8759 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
8761 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
8762 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
8763 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8764 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
8765 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
8768 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
8769 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
8770 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
8771 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8773 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
8774 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
8775 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
8776 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
8777 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
8778 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
8779 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
8781 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
8782 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8784 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
8785 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
8786 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8787 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
8788 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
8790 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8791 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8792 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
8793 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
8794 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8796 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
8797 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
8798 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
8799 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8801 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
8802 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
8803 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
8804 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
8807 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8808 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8809 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8810 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
8811 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
8812 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
8813 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
8814 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8815 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
8816 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
8818 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
8819 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
8820 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8821 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
8822 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
8823 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
8824 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
8826 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
8827 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
8828 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
8829 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
8830 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
8832 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
8833 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
8834 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
8837 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
8838 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
8839 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
8840 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
8841 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8843 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
8844 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8845 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8846 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8847 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8848 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8849 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8852 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
8853 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8854 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8855 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8856 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8858 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
8859 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
8860 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
8861 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
8862 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8864 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
8865 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
8866 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
8867 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
8868 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
8869 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8871 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
8872 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8873 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8875 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8876 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
8877 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
8878 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8879 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
8880 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
8881 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
8882 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
8884 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
8885 confusing we renamed some functions and
8886 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
8887 router_should_check_reachability() and
8888 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
8889 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
8890 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
8891 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
8892 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
8894 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
8895 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
8897 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
8898 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
8899 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8900 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
8901 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
8902 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
8903 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
8904 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
8905 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
8906 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
8907 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
8908 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
8909 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
8910 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
8911 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
8912 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8913 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
8914 Closes ticket 25766.
8915 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
8916 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
8917 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
8918 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
8919 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
8920 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
8921 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
8922 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
8923 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
8924 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
8925 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8926 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
8927 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
8928 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
8930 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
8931 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
8932 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
8933 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
8934 before. Closes ticket 26016.
8935 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
8936 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
8937 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
8938 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
8940 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
8941 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
8942 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
8943 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8945 o Deprecated features:
8946 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
8947 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
8948 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
8949 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
8950 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
8951 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
8954 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
8955 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
8956 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
8957 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
8958 24378 and proposal 290.
8959 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
8960 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
8961 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
8962 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
8963 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
8964 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
8965 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
8966 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
8967 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
8968 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
8969 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
8970 their local router. Closes 25409.
8971 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
8972 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
8973 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
8974 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
8975 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
8976 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
8977 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
8978 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
8979 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
8980 Closes ticket 25268.
8983 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
8984 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8985 bridge relays should upgrade.
8987 o Directory authority changes:
8988 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
8989 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
8990 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
8993 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
8994 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
8995 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
8998 o Directory authority changes:
8999 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9000 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9001 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9003 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
9004 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9005 Closes ticket 26343.
9007 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9008 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9009 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9010 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9011 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9013 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9014 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9015 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9017 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9018 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9019 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9020 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9022 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9023 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
9024 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
9026 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9027 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9028 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9029 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9030 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9031 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9033 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9034 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9035 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9036 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9038 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9039 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9040 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9043 o Minor features (geoip):
9044 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9045 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9047 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9048 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9049 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9050 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9051 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9053 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9054 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9055 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9057 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9058 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9059 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9060 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9061 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9062 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9063 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9064 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9067 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9068 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9069 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9070 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9071 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9072 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9074 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9075 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
9076 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
9077 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
9078 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9080 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9081 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9082 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9083 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9084 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9086 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9087 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9088 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9091 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9092 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9093 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9095 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9096 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9097 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9098 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9100 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9101 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
9102 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9103 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
9104 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
9105 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
9106 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9108 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9109 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9110 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9111 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9114 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9115 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9116 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9118 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9119 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9120 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9122 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9123 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
9124 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
9125 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
9128 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9129 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
9130 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
9131 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9133 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9134 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9135 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9137 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9138 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9139 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9142 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
9143 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9144 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
9147 o Directory authority changes:
9148 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9149 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9150 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9152 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
9153 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9154 Closes ticket 26343.
9156 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9157 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9158 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9159 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9160 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9162 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9163 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9164 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9165 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9167 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9168 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9169 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9170 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9171 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9172 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9174 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9175 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9176 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9179 o Minor features (geoip):
9180 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9181 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9183 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9184 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9185 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9186 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9187 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9189 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9190 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9191 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9193 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9194 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9195 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9196 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9199 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9200 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9201 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9202 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9203 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9204 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9206 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9207 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9208 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9209 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9210 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9212 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9213 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9214 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9217 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9218 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9219 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9221 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9222 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9223 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9224 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9226 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9227 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9228 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9230 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9231 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9232 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9235 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
9236 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
9237 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
9239 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9240 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
9241 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
9242 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9244 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9245 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
9246 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
9249 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9250 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9251 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9254 o Minor features (geoip):
9255 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9256 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9258 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9259 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9260 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9261 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9263 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9264 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
9265 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
9266 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
9267 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
9270 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9271 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9272 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9273 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9274 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9276 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9277 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
9278 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
9279 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9281 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9282 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9283 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9285 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9286 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9287 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9288 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9291 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9292 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
9293 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
9294 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9296 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9297 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9298 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9299 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9300 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9301 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9302 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9303 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9307 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
9308 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
9309 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
9311 o Directory authority changes:
9312 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9313 Closes ticket 26343.
9315 o Minor features (geoip):
9316 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9317 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
9319 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9320 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9321 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9322 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9323 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9324 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9326 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9327 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9328 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9330 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9331 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
9332 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
9333 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
9334 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9336 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9337 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9338 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9340 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9341 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
9342 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
9343 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
9344 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
9345 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9348 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
9349 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
9350 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9352 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
9353 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
9354 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
9355 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
9356 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
9357 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
9359 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
9360 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9362 o New system requirements:
9363 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
9364 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
9366 o Major features (embedding):
9367 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
9368 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
9369 Closes ticket 23684.
9370 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
9371 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
9372 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
9373 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
9374 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
9375 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
9377 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
9378 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
9379 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
9380 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
9382 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
9383 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
9384 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
9385 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
9386 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
9388 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
9389 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
9392 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
9393 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
9394 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
9395 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
9396 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
9397 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
9398 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
9400 o Major features (onion services):
9401 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
9402 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
9403 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
9404 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
9405 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
9407 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
9408 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
9409 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
9410 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
9411 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
9412 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9414 o Major features (relay):
9415 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
9416 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
9417 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
9418 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
9419 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
9421 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
9422 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
9423 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
9424 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
9425 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
9426 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
9427 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
9428 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
9430 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9431 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9432 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9433 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9434 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9436 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
9437 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
9438 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
9439 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
9440 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
9442 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9443 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
9444 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
9445 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9447 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
9448 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
9449 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
9450 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
9451 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
9452 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
9453 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
9454 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9456 o Major bugfixes (networking):
9457 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
9458 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
9459 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
9461 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9462 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9463 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9465 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
9466 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
9467 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
9468 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
9469 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
9470 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
9471 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
9473 o Major bugfixes (relay):
9474 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
9475 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
9476 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
9477 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9479 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9480 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
9481 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
9484 o Minor features (cleanup):
9485 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
9486 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
9488 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9489 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
9490 Closes ticket 26006.
9492 o Minor features (config options):
9493 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
9494 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
9495 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
9498 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9499 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
9500 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
9502 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9503 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9504 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9505 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9506 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9507 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9509 o Minor features (defensive programming):
9510 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
9511 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
9512 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
9513 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
9514 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
9515 once. Part of ticket 24337.
9516 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
9517 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
9518 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
9520 o Minor features (directory authority):
9521 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
9522 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
9524 o Minor features (embedding):
9525 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
9526 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
9527 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
9528 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
9529 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
9530 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
9531 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
9532 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
9533 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
9534 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
9535 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
9536 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
9537 Closes ticket 23848.
9538 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
9539 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
9540 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
9542 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
9543 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
9544 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
9545 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
9546 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
9547 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
9548 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
9549 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
9552 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
9553 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
9554 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
9555 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
9556 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
9557 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
9558 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
9560 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
9561 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
9562 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
9563 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
9564 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
9565 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
9566 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
9567 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
9568 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
9569 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
9570 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
9571 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
9573 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
9574 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
9575 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
9577 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
9578 Implements ticket 24791.
9580 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
9581 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
9582 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
9583 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
9584 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
9585 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
9587 o Minor features (geoip):
9588 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
9589 database. Closes ticket 26104.
9591 o Minor features (heartbeat):
9592 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
9593 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
9596 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
9597 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
9598 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
9599 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
9600 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
9602 o Minor features (IPv6):
9603 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
9604 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
9605 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
9606 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
9607 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
9610 o Minor features (log messages):
9611 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
9612 information about memory usage from the different compression
9613 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
9614 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
9615 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
9616 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
9617 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
9619 o Minor features (logging):
9620 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
9621 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
9622 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
9625 o Minor features (performance):
9626 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
9627 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
9628 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
9629 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
9631 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
9632 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
9633 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
9634 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
9635 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
9636 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
9637 Implements ticket 24374.
9639 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
9640 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
9641 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
9642 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
9643 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
9645 o Minor features (performance, windows):
9646 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
9647 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
9648 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
9651 o Minor features (sandbox):
9652 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9653 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9654 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9656 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
9657 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
9658 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
9659 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
9660 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
9662 o Minor features (testing):
9663 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
9666 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
9667 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
9668 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
9669 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
9670 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
9671 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
9672 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
9673 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
9674 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
9676 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
9677 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
9678 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
9679 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
9680 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
9681 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
9682 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
9683 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
9684 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
9687 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9688 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9689 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9690 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9692 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
9693 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
9694 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
9696 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
9697 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
9698 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
9699 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
9700 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9702 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9703 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9704 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9707 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9708 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
9709 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
9710 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9712 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9713 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
9714 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
9715 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9716 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
9717 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
9718 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9720 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9721 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
9722 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
9723 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
9725 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9726 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9727 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9728 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9729 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9731 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
9732 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
9733 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
9734 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
9737 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9738 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
9739 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
9740 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
9741 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9743 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9744 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
9745 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
9746 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
9747 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
9750 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
9751 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
9752 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
9753 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
9754 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
9756 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
9757 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
9758 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
9761 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
9762 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
9763 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
9765 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
9766 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9767 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
9768 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
9769 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
9771 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
9772 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
9773 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
9774 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
9776 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
9777 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
9778 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9779 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
9780 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
9781 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9783 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9784 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
9785 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
9786 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
9788 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9789 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9790 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9792 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9793 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
9794 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
9795 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
9797 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
9798 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
9799 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
9800 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
9803 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9804 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
9805 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
9806 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
9807 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9808 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
9811 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
9812 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
9813 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
9814 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
9816 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
9817 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
9818 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
9820 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9821 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
9822 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
9823 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
9824 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
9825 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9827 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9828 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
9829 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9830 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
9831 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
9832 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
9833 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9835 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9836 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
9837 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
9838 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
9840 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
9841 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
9842 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
9843 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
9844 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
9846 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
9847 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
9848 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
9849 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
9850 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
9851 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9853 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
9854 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
9855 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
9856 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
9857 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
9858 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9859 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
9860 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
9861 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
9862 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
9863 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
9864 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9866 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9867 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9868 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9870 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
9871 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
9872 would call the Rust implementation of
9873 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
9874 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
9875 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
9876 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
9877 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9879 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
9880 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
9881 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
9882 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
9884 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9885 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
9886 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
9887 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
9889 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
9890 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9892 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
9893 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
9894 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
9895 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
9896 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
9897 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
9899 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9900 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9901 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9902 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
9903 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
9905 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
9907 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
9908 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
9909 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
9911 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
9913 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
9914 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
9915 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
9916 "aruna1234" and teor.
9917 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
9918 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
9919 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
9920 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
9922 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
9923 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
9924 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
9925 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
9926 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
9927 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
9928 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
9929 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
9930 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
9931 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
9933 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
9934 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
9937 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
9939 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
9940 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
9941 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
9942 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
9944 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
9945 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
9946 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
9947 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
9949 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
9950 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
9951 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
9952 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
9953 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
9955 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
9956 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
9957 adding very little except for unit test.
9959 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
9960 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
9961 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
9962 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
9964 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
9965 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
9966 const. Implements ticket 24489.
9968 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9969 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
9970 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
9972 o Documentation (man page):
9973 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
9974 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
9977 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
9978 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
9979 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
9983 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
9984 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
9987 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
9988 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
9990 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
9991 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
9993 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
9996 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
9997 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
9998 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10000 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
10001 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
10002 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
10003 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
10006 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10007 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10008 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10009 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10012 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10013 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10014 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10015 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10016 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10017 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10018 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10019 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10020 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10021 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10022 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10023 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10024 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10026 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10027 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10028 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10030 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10031 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10032 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10033 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10034 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10035 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10036 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10038 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10039 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10040 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10042 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10043 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10044 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10045 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10046 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10047 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10048 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10050 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10051 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10052 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10053 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10055 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10056 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10057 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10058 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10060 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10061 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10062 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10063 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10064 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10065 Closes ticket 24978.
10067 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10068 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10069 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10070 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10071 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10072 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10073 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10074 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10075 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10077 o Minor features (geoip):
10078 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10081 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10082 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10083 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10084 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10085 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10087 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10088 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10089 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10090 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10091 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10093 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10094 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10095 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10096 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10097 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10100 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10101 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10102 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10103 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10104 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10105 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10106 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10107 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10108 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10109 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
10110 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
10113 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
10114 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10115 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10117 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10118 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10119 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10122 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10123 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10124 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10125 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10126 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10127 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10128 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10130 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10131 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
10132 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10133 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
10134 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
10135 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
10136 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
10137 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
10138 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
10141 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10142 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
10143 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
10144 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
10145 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
10146 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10148 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10149 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10150 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10151 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10153 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
10154 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10155 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10156 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10157 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10160 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10161 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10162 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10163 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10164 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10165 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10167 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10168 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10169 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10170 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10171 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10172 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10173 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10174 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10175 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10176 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10177 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10178 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10180 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10181 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10182 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10183 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10185 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10186 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10187 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10188 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10190 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10191 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10192 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10193 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10196 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
10197 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
10198 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
10199 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
10200 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
10202 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10203 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10205 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10206 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10208 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10209 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10210 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10213 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
10214 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10215 later Tor releases.
10217 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10218 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10220 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10221 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10223 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10226 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
10227 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
10228 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10230 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10231 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10232 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10233 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10236 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
10237 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10238 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10239 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10240 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10241 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10242 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10243 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10244 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10245 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10246 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10247 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10248 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10250 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10251 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10252 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10253 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10254 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10255 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10256 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10257 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10258 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10260 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
10261 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10262 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10263 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10264 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10265 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10266 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10268 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
10269 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10270 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10271 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10273 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
10274 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10275 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10276 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10277 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10278 Closes ticket 24978.
10280 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10281 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10282 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10283 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10285 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
10286 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10287 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10288 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10289 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10290 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10291 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10292 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10293 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10295 o Minor features (geoip):
10296 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10299 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10300 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10301 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10303 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
10304 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10305 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10306 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10307 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10309 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
10310 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10311 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10312 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10313 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10315 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
10316 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10317 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10318 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10319 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10322 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10323 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10324 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10326 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10327 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10328 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10331 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10332 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10333 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10334 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10335 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10336 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10337 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10339 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
10340 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10341 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10342 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10343 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10346 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
10347 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10348 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10349 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10350 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10351 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10353 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
10354 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10355 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10356 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10358 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
10359 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10360 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10361 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10362 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10363 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10364 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10365 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10366 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10367 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10368 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10369 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10371 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
10372 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10373 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10374 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10377 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10378 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
10379 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
10380 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
10381 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
10383 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10384 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10386 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10387 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10390 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
10391 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
10392 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
10395 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10396 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10398 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
10399 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
10400 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
10401 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
10402 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
10403 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
10406 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10407 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10409 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10412 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
10413 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
10414 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
10415 the DoS mitigations.)
10417 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10418 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10419 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10420 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10423 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10424 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
10425 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
10426 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10428 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10429 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10430 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10431 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10432 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10433 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10434 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10435 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10436 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10437 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10438 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10439 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10440 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10442 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10443 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10444 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10445 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10446 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10447 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10448 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10449 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
10450 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
10451 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
10452 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10454 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10455 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10456 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10458 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10459 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10460 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10461 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10462 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10463 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10464 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10466 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10467 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
10468 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
10469 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10471 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10472 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10473 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10474 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10476 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10477 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10478 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10479 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10480 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10481 Closes ticket 24978.
10483 o Minor features (geoip):
10484 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10487 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10488 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
10489 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
10492 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10493 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10494 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10495 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10496 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10498 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10499 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10500 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10501 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10502 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10503 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10504 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10506 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10507 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10508 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10509 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10510 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10512 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10513 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
10514 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
10515 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10517 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10518 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
10519 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
10520 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
10521 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10523 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10524 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10525 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10526 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10528 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10529 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10530 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10531 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10533 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10534 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10535 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10536 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10538 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10539 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10541 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10542 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10544 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10545 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
10546 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
10548 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10549 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
10550 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
10551 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
10552 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10554 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10555 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10556 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10558 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
10559 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
10560 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
10564 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
10565 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
10567 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
10568 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
10569 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
10570 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
10571 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
10572 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
10574 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
10575 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
10576 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
10577 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
10578 with the 0.2.9 series.
10580 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
10581 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10583 o Directory authority changes:
10584 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10585 Closes ticket 23910.
10586 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10587 Closes ticket 23592.
10588 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
10589 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
10590 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
10591 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
10592 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
10595 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
10596 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
10597 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
10598 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
10599 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
10600 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
10603 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
10604 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
10606 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
10609 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
10612 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
10614 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
10616 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
10618 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
10619 they are 56 characters long, as in
10620 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
10622 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
10623 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
10624 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
10625 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
10626 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
10629 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
10630 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
10631 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
10632 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
10633 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
10634 options. For more information, see our blog post at
10635 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
10637 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
10638 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
10639 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
10640 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
10641 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
10642 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
10643 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
10644 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
10645 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
10646 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
10647 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
10648 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
10650 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
10651 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
10652 more information, see the design paper at
10653 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
10654 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
10655 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
10656 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
10658 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
10659 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
10660 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
10661 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
10662 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
10663 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
10664 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
10665 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
10667 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
10668 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
10669 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
10670 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
10673 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
10674 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
10675 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
10676 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
10677 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
10678 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
10679 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
10680 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
10681 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
10682 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
10683 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
10684 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
10687 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
10688 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
10689 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
10690 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
10691 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
10692 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10693 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
10694 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
10695 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
10697 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10698 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10699 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10700 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10701 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10702 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10703 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10704 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10705 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10706 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
10707 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
10710 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
10711 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
10712 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
10713 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
10714 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
10715 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
10716 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
10718 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
10719 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
10720 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
10721 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
10722 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
10723 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
10726 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
10727 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
10728 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
10729 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
10731 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
10732 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
10733 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
10734 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
10736 o Minor features (bridge):
10737 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
10738 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
10739 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
10740 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
10741 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
10742 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
10743 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
10744 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
10745 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
10746 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
10747 related to ticket 23080.
10749 o Minor features (bug detection):
10750 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
10751 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
10752 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
10754 o Minor features (build, compilation):
10755 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
10756 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
10757 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
10758 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
10759 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
10760 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
10761 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
10762 Closes ticket 23643.
10764 o Minor features (client):
10765 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
10766 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
10767 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
10768 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
10769 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
10770 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
10771 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
10772 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
10773 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
10774 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
10775 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
10776 Resolves ticket 23670.
10778 o Minor features (command line):
10779 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
10780 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
10781 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
10783 o Minor features (control port):
10784 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
10785 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
10786 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
10788 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
10789 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
10791 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
10792 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
10793 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
10794 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
10795 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
10796 Closes ticket 23237.
10797 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
10798 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
10800 o Minor features (development support):
10801 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
10802 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
10803 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
10804 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
10805 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
10806 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
10808 o Minor features (directory authority):
10809 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
10810 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
10811 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
10812 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
10814 o Minor features (ed25519):
10815 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
10816 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
10817 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
10819 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
10820 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
10821 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
10823 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
10824 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10825 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10826 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10827 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10828 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10829 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10830 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10831 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10833 o Minor features (geoip):
10834 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10837 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
10838 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
10839 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
10840 another program, regardless of the settings of
10841 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
10842 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
10843 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
10845 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10846 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10847 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10849 o Minor features (logging):
10850 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
10852 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
10853 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
10855 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
10856 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
10857 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
10858 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
10859 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
10860 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
10861 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
10862 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
10863 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
10864 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
10866 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
10867 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
10869 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
10870 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
10871 the circuit identifier(s).
10872 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
10873 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
10875 o Minor features (portability):
10876 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
10877 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
10879 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
10880 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
10881 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
10882 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
10884 o Minor features (relay):
10885 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
10886 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
10887 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
10888 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
10889 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
10890 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
10891 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
10892 results. Closes ticket 22731.
10894 o Minor features (relay statistics):
10895 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10896 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10897 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10899 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
10900 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
10901 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
10902 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
10903 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
10905 o Minor features (robustness):
10906 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
10907 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
10909 o Minor features (startup, safety):
10910 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
10911 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
10914 o Minor features (static analysis):
10915 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
10916 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
10919 o Minor features (testing):
10920 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
10921 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
10922 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
10923 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
10925 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
10926 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
10927 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
10928 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
10929 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
10931 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
10932 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10933 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10934 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10935 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10938 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10939 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
10940 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
10943 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
10944 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
10945 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
10946 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
10947 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10948 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
10949 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
10950 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
10951 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10952 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
10953 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
10954 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
10955 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10957 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
10958 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
10959 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
10960 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10962 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
10963 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
10964 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
10965 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
10966 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
10967 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
10968 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
10969 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
10970 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10971 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10972 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10973 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
10974 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
10975 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
10976 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
10977 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
10978 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10980 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
10981 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
10982 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
10983 Coverity as CID 1415728.
10985 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10986 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
10987 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
10988 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10990 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
10991 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
10992 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
10993 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
10994 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
10995 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
10996 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
10997 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10999 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11000 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
11001 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
11002 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
11003 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11004 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
11005 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
11006 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
11007 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
11008 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
11009 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
11010 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
11011 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
11012 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
11015 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
11016 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
11017 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
11020 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
11021 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
11022 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
11023 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
11025 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11026 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11027 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11030 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
11031 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
11032 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
11033 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11035 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
11036 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11037 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11038 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11039 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11040 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11041 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11042 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11043 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11046 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
11047 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
11048 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
11049 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
11050 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11052 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
11053 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
11054 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
11055 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
11056 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
11057 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
11059 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
11060 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
11063 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11064 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
11065 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11066 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
11067 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
11068 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11070 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
11071 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
11072 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
11073 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11075 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
11076 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11077 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11078 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11079 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11080 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11082 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
11083 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
11084 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
11085 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
11086 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
11087 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
11088 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
11091 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
11092 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
11093 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
11094 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11096 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11097 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
11098 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
11099 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
11100 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11101 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
11102 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
11103 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11104 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
11105 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
11107 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
11108 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
11109 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
11111 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
11112 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
11113 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
11115 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
11116 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11117 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
11118 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
11119 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
11120 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
11122 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
11123 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11124 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11125 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11126 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11127 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11129 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
11130 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
11131 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11133 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11134 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11135 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11136 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11137 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11140 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11141 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11142 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11143 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11144 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11145 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11147 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11148 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
11149 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
11150 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
11151 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11152 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
11153 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
11155 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
11156 only fetch the service descriptor once.
11157 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
11158 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
11159 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11160 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
11161 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
11162 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
11163 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
11165 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11166 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11167 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11168 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11169 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11170 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11171 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11172 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11173 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11174 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11175 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11176 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11178 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11179 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
11180 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11181 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11182 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11183 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11186 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11187 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
11188 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
11189 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
11190 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11191 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11192 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11193 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11194 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11195 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11196 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11197 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11199 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11200 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
11201 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11202 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
11203 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
11204 Closes ticket 24109.
11205 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
11206 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11207 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
11208 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
11210 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
11211 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
11213 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
11214 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
11215 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
11216 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
11217 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
11218 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
11219 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
11220 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11221 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
11222 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
11223 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11225 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
11226 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
11227 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
11228 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11230 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11231 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
11232 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
11234 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
11235 function from the general code to handle channel state
11236 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
11237 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
11238 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
11239 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
11240 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
11241 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
11242 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
11243 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
11245 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
11246 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
11248 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
11249 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
11250 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
11251 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
11252 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
11253 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
11254 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
11255 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
11256 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
11257 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
11258 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
11259 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
11261 o Deprecated features:
11262 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
11263 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
11264 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
11265 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
11266 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
11267 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
11271 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
11272 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
11273 section. Closes ticket 24254.
11274 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
11275 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
11276 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
11277 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
11278 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
11279 Closes ticket 18736.
11280 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
11281 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
11282 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
11283 Closes ticket 15645.
11284 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
11285 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
11286 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
11287 file. Closes ticket 21148.
11289 o Removed features:
11290 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
11291 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
11292 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
11293 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
11294 Closes ticket 21031.
11295 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
11296 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
11299 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
11300 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
11301 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
11302 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
11304 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11305 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11306 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11307 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11308 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11309 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11310 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11311 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11312 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11313 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11314 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11316 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11317 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11318 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11319 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11320 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11321 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11322 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11325 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11326 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11327 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11328 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11329 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11331 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11332 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11333 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11334 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11335 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11336 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11337 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11338 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11339 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11341 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11342 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11343 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11344 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11345 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11346 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11349 o Minor features (bridge):
11350 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11351 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11352 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11353 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11356 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11357 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11360 o Minor features (geoip):
11361 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11364 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11365 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11366 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11367 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11368 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11370 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11371 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11372 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11374 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11375 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11376 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11377 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11378 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11379 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11381 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11382 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
11383 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
11386 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11387 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11388 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11389 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11390 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11393 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
11394 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11395 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11396 to another of the releases coming out today.
11398 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
11399 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
11400 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11402 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11403 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11404 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11405 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11406 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11407 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11408 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11409 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11410 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11411 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11412 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11414 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11415 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11416 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11417 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11418 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11419 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11420 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11423 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11424 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11425 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11426 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11427 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11429 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11430 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11431 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11432 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11433 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11434 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11435 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11436 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11437 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11439 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11440 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11441 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11442 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11443 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11444 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11447 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11448 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11449 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11450 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11451 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11452 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11454 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11455 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11456 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11457 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11458 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11461 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11462 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11465 o Minor features (geoip):
11466 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11469 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11470 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11471 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11472 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11473 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11475 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11476 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11477 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11479 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11480 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11481 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11482 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11483 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11484 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11486 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11487 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11488 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11489 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11490 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11492 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11493 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11494 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11497 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
11498 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11499 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11500 to another of the releases coming out today.
11502 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11503 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11504 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11505 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11506 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11507 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11510 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11511 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11512 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11513 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11514 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11515 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11516 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11517 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11518 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11519 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11520 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11522 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11523 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11524 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11525 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11526 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11527 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11528 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11531 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11532 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11533 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11534 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11535 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11537 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11538 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11539 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11540 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11541 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11542 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11544 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11545 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11546 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11547 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11548 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11551 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11552 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11555 o Minor features (geoip):
11556 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11559 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11560 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11561 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11562 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11563 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11564 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11566 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11567 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11568 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11569 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11570 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11572 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11573 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11574 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11576 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11577 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11578 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11579 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11580 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11581 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11583 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11584 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11585 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11586 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11587 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11589 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11590 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11591 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11594 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
11595 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11596 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11597 to another of the releases coming out today.
11599 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
11600 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
11601 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11603 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11604 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11605 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11606 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11607 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11608 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11609 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11610 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11611 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11612 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11613 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11614 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11615 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11616 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11617 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11620 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11621 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11622 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11623 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11624 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11626 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11627 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
11628 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
11629 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
11630 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
11633 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11634 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11635 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11636 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11637 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11640 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11641 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11644 o Minor features (geoip):
11645 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11648 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11649 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11650 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11653 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
11654 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11655 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11656 to another of the releases coming out today.
11658 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
11659 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
11660 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11662 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11663 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11664 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11665 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11666 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11667 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11668 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11669 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11670 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11671 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11672 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11673 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11674 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11675 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11676 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11679 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11680 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11681 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11682 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11683 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11684 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11686 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11687 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11688 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11689 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11690 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11693 o Minor features (geoip):
11694 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11698 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
11699 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
11700 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
11702 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
11703 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
11704 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11706 o Directory authority changes:
11707 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11708 Closes ticket 23910.
11709 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11710 Closes ticket 23592.
11712 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11713 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11714 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11715 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11716 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11718 o Minor features (geoip):
11719 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11722 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11723 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11724 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11725 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11726 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11727 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11728 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11729 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11730 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11732 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11733 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11734 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11735 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11736 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11737 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11738 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11739 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11740 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11743 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
11744 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
11745 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
11746 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
11748 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
11749 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
11750 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11752 o Directory authority changes:
11753 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11754 Closes ticket 23910.
11755 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11756 Closes ticket 23592.
11758 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11759 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11760 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11761 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11763 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11764 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11765 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11766 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11767 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11769 o Minor features (geoip):
11770 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11774 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
11775 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
11776 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
11777 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
11779 o Directory authority changes:
11780 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11781 Closes ticket 23910.
11782 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11783 Closes ticket 23592.
11785 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11786 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11787 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11788 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11790 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11791 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11792 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11793 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11794 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11796 o Minor features (geoip):
11797 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11800 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11801 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
11802 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
11803 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
11804 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
11805 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
11806 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
11807 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
11810 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11811 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
11812 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11814 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11815 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
11816 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
11817 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
11818 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
11819 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11820 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
11823 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
11824 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
11825 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
11826 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
11828 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
11829 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
11830 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11832 o Directory authority changes:
11833 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11834 Closes ticket 23910.
11835 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11836 Closes ticket 23592.
11838 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11839 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11840 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11841 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11843 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11844 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11845 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11846 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11847 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11849 o Minor features (geoip):
11850 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11853 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11854 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
11855 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
11856 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
11857 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
11858 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
11859 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
11860 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
11863 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11864 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
11865 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
11866 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11868 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11869 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
11870 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11872 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11873 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
11874 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
11875 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
11876 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
11877 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11878 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
11881 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
11882 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
11883 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
11884 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
11885 a new directory authority, Bastet.
11887 o Directory authority changes:
11888 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11889 Closes ticket 23910.
11890 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11891 Closes ticket 23592.
11893 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11894 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11895 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11896 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11898 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11899 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11900 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11901 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11902 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11904 o Minor features (geoip):
11905 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11908 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11909 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
11910 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
11911 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
11913 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11914 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
11915 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
11918 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11919 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
11920 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
11922 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11923 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
11924 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
11925 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11927 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11928 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
11929 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11931 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11932 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
11933 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
11937 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
11938 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
11941 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
11942 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
11943 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
11944 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11946 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
11947 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
11948 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
11949 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
11951 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11952 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
11953 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
11954 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
11955 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
11958 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11961 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11962 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
11963 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
11966 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
11967 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
11968 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
11969 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
11970 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
11971 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
11972 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
11973 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
11974 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
11976 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
11977 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
11978 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
11979 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
11980 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
11981 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
11982 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
11983 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
11984 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
11987 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
11988 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
11991 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
11992 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
11993 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
11994 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
11996 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
11997 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
11998 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
11999 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
12000 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
12001 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
12002 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
12004 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12005 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
12006 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
12007 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12009 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12010 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
12011 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12013 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12014 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12015 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12016 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12018 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12019 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12020 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12021 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12022 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12024 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12025 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12026 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12027 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12029 o Minor features (geoip):
12030 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12033 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12034 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12035 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12036 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12038 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12039 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
12040 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12041 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
12042 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12043 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
12044 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
12045 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12047 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12048 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
12049 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12051 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12052 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12053 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12056 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12057 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12058 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12059 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
12060 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12062 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12063 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12064 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12065 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12066 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12067 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12069 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12070 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12071 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12072 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12073 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12074 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12075 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12076 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12077 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12079 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12080 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12081 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12082 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12084 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12085 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
12086 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12088 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12089 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
12090 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
12091 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
12092 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12094 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12095 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
12096 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
12099 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12100 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12101 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12102 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12103 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12105 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12106 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12107 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12108 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12109 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12110 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12111 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12112 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12113 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12116 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
12117 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
12120 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12121 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12122 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12123 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12125 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12126 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12127 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12128 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12131 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12134 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12135 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
12136 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12138 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12139 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12140 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12141 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
12142 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12144 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12145 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12146 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12147 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12149 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12150 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
12151 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
12153 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
12154 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
12155 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
12156 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12159 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
12160 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
12162 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
12163 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
12164 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
12165 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
12166 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
12167 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
12168 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
12170 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
12171 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
12172 disabled. For more information, see
12173 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12175 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
12176 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
12177 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
12178 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
12179 with the 0.2.9 series.
12181 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
12182 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
12184 o New dependencies:
12185 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
12186 pkg-config tool at build time.
12188 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
12189 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
12190 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
12191 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12192 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
12194 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
12195 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12196 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12197 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12198 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12199 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12200 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12201 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12202 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12204 o Major features (directory protocol):
12205 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
12206 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
12207 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
12208 now request these documents when available. When both client and
12209 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
12210 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
12211 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
12212 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
12213 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
12214 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
12215 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
12216 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
12217 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
12218 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
12219 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
12220 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
12221 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
12223 o Major features (experimental):
12224 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
12225 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
12226 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
12227 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
12228 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
12229 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
12230 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
12232 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
12233 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
12234 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
12235 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
12236 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
12237 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
12240 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
12241 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
12242 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
12243 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
12244 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
12245 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
12246 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
12247 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
12248 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
12249 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
12250 multiples of 10000.
12252 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12253 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
12254 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
12255 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12256 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12257 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12258 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12261 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
12262 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
12263 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
12264 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
12265 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
12266 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
12268 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
12269 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
12270 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
12271 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
12272 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
12273 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
12274 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
12275 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
12276 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12277 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
12278 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
12279 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
12280 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
12281 Otherwise it is at info.
12283 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
12284 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
12285 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
12286 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12287 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
12288 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
12289 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12291 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
12292 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12293 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12294 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12296 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
12297 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12298 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12299 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12300 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12302 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
12303 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
12304 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
12305 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
12306 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
12307 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
12308 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
12311 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
12312 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
12313 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
12314 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
12315 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
12316 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
12317 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
12318 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12319 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
12320 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
12321 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
12322 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
12323 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
12326 o Minor features (security, windows):
12327 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12328 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12329 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12330 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12331 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12333 o Minor features (bridge authority):
12334 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
12335 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
12337 o Minor features (code style):
12338 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12339 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12340 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12342 o Minor features (config options):
12343 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
12344 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
12345 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
12346 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
12347 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
12348 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
12349 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
12350 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
12352 o Minor features (controller):
12353 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
12354 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
12356 o Minor features (defaults):
12357 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
12358 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
12359 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
12360 can. Closes ticket 21407.
12361 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
12362 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
12363 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
12364 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
12365 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
12366 Closes ticket 21641.
12368 o Minor features (defensive programming):
12369 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
12370 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
12371 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
12374 o Minor features (diagnostic):
12375 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
12376 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
12377 attempt for bug 23105.
12378 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
12379 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
12380 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
12381 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
12382 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
12383 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
12384 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
12386 o Minor features (directory authority):
12387 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
12388 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
12389 Closes ticket 22348.
12391 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
12392 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
12393 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
12394 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
12395 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
12398 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
12399 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
12400 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
12401 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12402 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12403 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12404 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12406 o Minor features (geoip):
12407 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12410 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
12411 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
12412 introduction points than specified in
12413 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
12414 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
12415 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
12416 21594; closes ticket 21622.
12417 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
12418 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
12419 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
12420 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
12422 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12423 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
12424 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
12425 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
12426 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
12427 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
12428 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
12429 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
12430 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
12431 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
12433 o Minor features (logging):
12434 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
12435 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
12436 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
12437 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
12440 o Minor features (performance):
12441 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
12442 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
12444 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
12445 speed some controller functions.
12447 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
12448 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
12449 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
12450 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
12452 o Minor features (relay, performance):
12453 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
12454 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
12455 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
12456 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
12457 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
12460 o Minor features (safety):
12461 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
12462 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
12463 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
12466 o Minor features (testing):
12467 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
12469 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
12470 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
12471 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
12472 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
12473 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
12474 on. Closes ticket 21439.
12475 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
12476 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
12477 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
12478 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
12479 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
12480 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
12481 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
12482 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
12483 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
12484 21507. Partially implements 21470.
12486 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
12487 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12488 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12489 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12491 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12492 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
12493 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
12494 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
12497 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
12498 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
12499 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12500 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
12501 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12502 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
12503 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
12504 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
12507 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12508 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
12509 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12511 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
12512 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
12513 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
12514 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
12515 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
12516 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12518 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12519 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
12520 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12522 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
12523 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
12524 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
12525 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
12526 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
12527 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
12528 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12529 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
12530 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
12531 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
12532 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
12533 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
12534 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
12535 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
12537 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12538 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12539 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12540 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
12541 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12542 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
12543 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12544 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
12545 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
12546 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
12547 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
12548 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12550 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12551 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12552 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12554 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
12555 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12556 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12557 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12558 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12559 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12561 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
12562 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
12563 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
12564 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
12565 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12566 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12567 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12568 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12569 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12570 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12571 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12572 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12574 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
12575 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12576 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12577 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12578 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12579 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12580 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12581 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12583 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
12584 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
12585 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12586 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
12587 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
12588 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
12590 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
12591 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
12592 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
12595 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
12596 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
12597 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
12598 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
12599 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
12601 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12602 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
12603 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12604 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
12605 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
12606 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12607 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
12608 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12609 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
12610 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
12611 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12613 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
12614 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12615 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12616 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12618 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
12619 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
12620 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
12621 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
12622 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
12623 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
12624 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
12625 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
12626 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
12627 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
12628 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12629 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
12630 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
12631 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12633 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
12634 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
12635 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
12636 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
12637 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
12638 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
12639 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12641 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12642 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
12643 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12644 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
12645 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
12646 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
12647 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12649 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12650 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
12651 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
12652 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
12653 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
12654 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
12655 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
12656 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
12657 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
12658 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
12659 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12660 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
12661 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
12663 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
12664 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
12665 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
12666 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
12668 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
12669 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
12670 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
12672 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
12673 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
12674 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
12675 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12677 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12678 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
12679 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
12680 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12682 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12683 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
12684 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
12685 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
12686 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
12687 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12688 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
12689 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
12690 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
12692 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
12693 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
12694 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
12695 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
12696 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
12697 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
12698 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
12701 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
12702 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
12703 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
12704 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
12705 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
12706 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
12708 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12709 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12710 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12711 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
12712 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
12713 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12714 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
12715 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12716 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
12717 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
12718 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
12719 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
12720 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
12721 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12722 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
12723 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
12726 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
12727 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12728 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12729 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12730 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12732 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
12733 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12734 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12735 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12736 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12737 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12738 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12740 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
12741 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
12742 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12744 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12745 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
12746 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
12747 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
12748 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
12749 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
12750 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
12751 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
12752 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
12753 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
12754 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
12755 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
12757 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
12758 Resolves ticket 22213.
12759 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
12760 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
12761 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
12762 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
12763 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
12764 types. Closes ticket 21651.
12765 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
12766 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
12769 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
12771 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
12772 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
12774 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
12775 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
12776 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
12778 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
12780 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
12781 Closes ticket 21873.
12782 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
12783 Closes ticket 21151.
12784 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
12785 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
12787 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
12788 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12789 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
12790 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
12792 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
12793 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
12794 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
12795 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
12796 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
12797 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
12798 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
12799 default behavior is now unavailable.
12800 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
12801 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
12802 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
12803 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
12804 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
12805 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
12806 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
12808 o Removed features (tools):
12809 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
12810 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
12811 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
12812 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
12813 required. Closes ticket 21842.
12816 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
12817 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
12818 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
12819 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
12821 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12822 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12823 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12824 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12825 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12826 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12827 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12828 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12829 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12831 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12832 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12833 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12834 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12836 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12837 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12838 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12839 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12840 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12842 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12843 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12846 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
12847 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12848 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12849 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12851 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12852 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
12853 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12854 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
12855 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12856 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
12857 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
12858 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
12861 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12862 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12863 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12866 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12867 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12868 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12869 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12870 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12871 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12873 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12874 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
12875 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
12876 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12878 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12879 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
12880 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12882 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
12883 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
12884 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12887 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
12888 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
12889 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
12890 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
12891 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
12894 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
12897 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12898 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
12899 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
12900 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
12901 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
12902 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
12904 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12905 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
12906 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
12907 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12909 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12910 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
12911 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
12912 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12914 o Minor features (geoip):
12915 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12918 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12919 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12920 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12921 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12922 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12924 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12925 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
12926 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
12927 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
12928 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12930 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12931 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12932 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12933 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12934 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12935 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12936 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12937 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12938 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12941 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
12942 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
12943 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
12944 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
12945 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
12947 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
12948 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
12949 bugfixes described below.
12951 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
12952 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12953 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
12954 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
12955 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12956 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12957 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12958 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12961 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12962 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
12963 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
12964 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
12965 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
12966 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
12967 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
12970 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12971 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
12972 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
12973 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
12974 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
12975 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
12976 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
12977 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12978 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
12979 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
12980 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
12981 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
12982 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
12985 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12986 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
12987 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
12990 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12991 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12992 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12993 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12994 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12996 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12997 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
12998 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13000 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13001 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13002 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13004 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13005 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13006 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13007 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13008 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13009 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13010 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13012 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
13014 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13015 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13016 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13019 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
13020 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13021 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13022 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13023 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13024 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13026 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
13027 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13028 bugfixes described below.
13030 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13031 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13032 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13033 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13034 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13037 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13038 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13039 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13040 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13041 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13042 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13043 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13046 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13047 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13048 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13049 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13050 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13052 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13053 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
13054 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
13055 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
13056 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
13057 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
13058 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
13060 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
13061 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
13062 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
13063 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
13064 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
13066 o Minor features (geoip):
13067 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13070 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
13071 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
13072 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
13073 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13075 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13076 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13077 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13079 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13080 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
13081 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
13082 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
13083 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
13086 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
13087 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
13088 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13089 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13090 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13092 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
13093 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13094 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13095 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13096 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13097 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13099 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13100 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13101 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13102 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13105 o Minor features (geoip):
13106 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13109 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13110 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13111 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13112 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13113 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13115 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13116 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13117 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13119 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
13120 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13121 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13122 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13123 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13124 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13126 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13127 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13128 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13129 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13132 o Minor features (geoip):
13133 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13136 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13137 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13138 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13141 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
13142 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13143 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13144 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13145 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13146 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13148 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13149 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13150 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13151 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13154 o Minor features (geoip):
13155 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13158 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13159 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13160 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13162 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
13163 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13164 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13165 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13166 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13167 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13169 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13170 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13171 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13172 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13175 o Minor features (geoip):
13176 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13179 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13180 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13181 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13183 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
13184 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13185 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13186 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13187 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13188 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13190 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13191 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13192 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13193 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13196 o Minor features (geoip):
13197 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13200 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13201 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13202 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13205 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
13206 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
13207 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
13208 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
13209 clients are not affected.
13211 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
13212 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
13213 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
13214 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
13215 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
13216 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13219 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13222 o Minor features (future-proofing):
13223 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
13224 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
13225 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
13226 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
13227 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
13228 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
13230 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13231 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
13232 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
13233 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
13234 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
13238 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
13239 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
13241 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
13242 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
13243 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
13244 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
13245 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
13246 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
13249 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
13250 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
13252 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
13253 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
13254 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
13255 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
13256 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
13258 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
13259 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13261 o Major features (directory authority, security):
13262 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
13263 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
13264 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
13266 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
13267 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
13268 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
13269 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
13270 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
13273 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
13274 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
13275 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
13276 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
13277 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
13278 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
13279 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
13280 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
13283 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
13284 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
13285 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
13286 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
13287 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
13288 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
13289 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
13290 15056; part of proposal 220.
13291 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
13292 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
13293 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
13294 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
13295 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
13296 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
13297 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
13298 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
13299 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
13302 o Major features (security):
13303 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13304 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13305 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13306 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13307 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13308 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13310 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
13311 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
13312 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
13313 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
13314 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
13315 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
13316 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
13317 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
13318 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
13319 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
13320 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13322 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
13323 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
13324 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
13325 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13327 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
13328 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
13329 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
13330 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
13333 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
13334 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13335 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13337 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
13338 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
13339 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
13340 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
13341 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
13342 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
13343 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13345 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
13346 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13347 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13348 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13349 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13350 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13351 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13352 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
13353 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
13354 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
13355 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
13356 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
13357 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
13358 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
13359 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
13361 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
13362 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
13363 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
13364 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
13365 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13367 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
13368 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
13369 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
13370 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
13371 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
13372 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
13373 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13375 o Minor feature (client):
13376 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
13377 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
13379 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
13380 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
13381 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
13382 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
13384 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
13385 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
13386 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
13388 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
13389 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
13390 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
13391 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
13392 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
13394 o Minor features (controller):
13395 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
13396 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
13397 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
13398 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
13401 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
13402 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
13403 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
13404 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
13405 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
13406 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
13407 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
13408 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
13409 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
13410 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
13412 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
13413 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
13414 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
13417 o Minor features (directory authorities):
13418 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
13419 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
13421 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
13422 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
13423 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13425 o Minor features (directory authority):
13426 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
13427 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
13428 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
13429 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
13430 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
13432 o Minor features (directory cache):
13433 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
13434 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
13437 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
13438 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
13439 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
13440 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
13442 o Minor features (entry guards):
13443 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
13444 break regression tests.
13445 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
13446 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
13448 o Minor features (fallback directories):
13449 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
13450 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
13451 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
13452 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
13453 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
13454 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
13455 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
13456 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
13457 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
13458 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
13459 Closes ticket 20539.
13460 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
13461 Closes ticket 20822.
13462 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
13464 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
13465 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
13466 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
13467 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
13468 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
13470 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
13471 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
13472 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
13473 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
13474 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
13477 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
13478 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
13479 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
13480 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
13482 o Minor features (geoip):
13483 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13486 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
13487 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13490 o Minor features (infrastructure):
13491 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
13492 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
13494 o Minor features (linting):
13495 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
13496 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
13498 o Minor features (logging):
13499 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
13500 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
13502 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
13503 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
13504 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
13506 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
13507 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
13509 o Minor features (relay):
13510 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
13511 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
13512 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
13513 Written by Michael Sonntag.
13515 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
13516 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
13517 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
13520 o Minor features (testing):
13521 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
13522 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
13523 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
13525 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
13526 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
13527 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
13528 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
13529 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
13530 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
13531 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
13532 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
13533 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13535 o Minor bugfix (logging):
13536 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
13537 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
13538 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
13539 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
13542 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
13543 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
13544 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
13545 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
13547 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13548 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
13549 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
13552 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
13553 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
13554 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
13556 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13557 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
13558 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
13559 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13560 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
13561 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
13562 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
13564 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13565 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
13566 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
13568 o Minor bugfixes (config):
13569 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
13570 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
13571 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
13572 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13574 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13575 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
13576 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13577 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
13578 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
13579 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
13581 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
13582 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
13583 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
13584 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
13585 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
13586 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
13587 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
13590 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
13591 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
13592 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
13593 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
13594 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
13596 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
13597 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
13598 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
13599 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13601 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
13602 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
13603 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
13604 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
13605 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13607 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
13608 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
13609 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
13610 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
13611 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13613 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
13614 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
13615 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
13616 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13617 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
13618 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
13619 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
13622 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
13623 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
13624 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
13625 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
13626 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
13627 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
13628 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
13629 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
13630 on all recent tor versions.
13632 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
13633 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
13634 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
13636 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
13637 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
13638 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13640 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13641 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
13642 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
13643 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
13644 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13645 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
13646 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
13647 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
13648 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13650 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13651 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
13652 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
13653 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
13654 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13655 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
13656 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
13657 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13658 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
13659 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
13660 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
13663 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13664 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
13665 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
13666 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13667 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
13668 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
13669 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
13670 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13671 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
13672 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
13673 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
13676 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
13677 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
13678 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13679 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
13680 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
13681 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
13682 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
13683 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
13685 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
13686 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
13687 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
13690 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13691 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
13692 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13694 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13695 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
13696 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
13697 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
13700 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
13701 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
13702 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
13703 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
13705 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
13706 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13708 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13709 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
13710 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
13712 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
13713 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
13714 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
13715 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
13717 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13718 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
13719 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
13720 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
13721 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13722 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
13723 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
13724 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13726 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
13727 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
13728 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
13729 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13730 Patch by "junglefowl".
13732 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
13733 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
13734 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
13735 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
13736 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13738 o Minor bugfixes (util):
13739 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
13740 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
13741 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
13742 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
13744 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
13745 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
13746 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
13749 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
13750 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
13751 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
13752 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
13754 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13755 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
13756 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
13757 Closes ticket 19858.
13758 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
13759 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
13760 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
13761 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
13762 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
13763 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
13764 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
13765 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
13766 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
13767 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
13768 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
13769 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
13770 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
13771 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
13772 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
13773 redundant with the similar structures used in the
13774 channel abstraction.
13775 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
13776 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
13777 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
13778 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
13779 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
13780 replaced with code automatically generated by the
13783 o Documentation (formatting):
13784 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
13785 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
13787 o Documentation (man page):
13788 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
13789 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
13792 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
13793 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
13795 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
13796 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
13797 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
13799 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
13800 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
13801 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
13802 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13803 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
13804 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
13805 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
13806 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
13807 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
13808 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
13810 o Removed features:
13811 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
13812 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
13813 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
13815 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
13816 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
13817 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
13820 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
13821 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
13822 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
13824 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
13825 from "overcaffeinated".
13826 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
13827 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
13830 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
13831 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
13832 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
13833 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13834 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
13837 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
13838 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
13839 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13841 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13842 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13843 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13844 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13845 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13846 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13847 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13849 o Minor features (geoip):
13850 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13854 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
13855 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
13856 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
13857 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13860 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
13861 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
13862 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13864 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
13865 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13867 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
13868 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13869 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13871 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13872 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13873 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13876 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
13877 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13878 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13879 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13880 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13881 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13882 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13883 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13884 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13886 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13887 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
13888 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
13889 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
13890 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13891 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13892 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13893 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13894 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13895 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13896 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13897 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13898 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13900 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13901 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
13902 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
13903 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
13904 Reported by Guido Vranken.
13906 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13907 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
13908 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13910 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13911 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
13912 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
13913 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
13914 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
13915 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
13916 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
13919 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
13920 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13921 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13922 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13923 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13924 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13925 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13927 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13928 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
13929 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
13930 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
13933 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13934 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
13935 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
13936 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
13938 o Minor features (geoip):
13939 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13943 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
13944 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
13945 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
13946 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
13949 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
13950 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
13951 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
13953 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
13954 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
13956 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
13957 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
13958 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
13960 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
13961 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
13962 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
13965 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13966 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13967 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
13968 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
13969 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
13970 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
13971 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
13972 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
13973 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
13975 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
13976 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
13977 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
13978 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
13979 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
13980 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
13981 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
13982 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
13983 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
13985 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
13986 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
13987 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
13988 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
13989 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13991 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
13992 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
13993 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
13994 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
13995 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
13998 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
13999 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14000 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14001 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14002 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14004 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14005 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14006 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14008 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14009 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14010 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14011 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14012 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14013 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14016 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14017 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14018 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14019 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14020 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14021 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14022 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14025 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14026 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14027 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14028 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14029 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14030 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14031 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14033 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14034 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14035 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14036 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14039 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14040 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14041 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14042 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14044 o Minor features (geoip):
14045 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14048 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14049 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14050 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14053 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
14054 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14055 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
14056 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14059 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
14060 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
14061 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14063 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14064 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14066 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14067 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14068 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14070 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14071 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14072 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14075 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14076 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14077 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14078 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14079 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14080 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14081 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14082 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14083 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14085 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14086 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14087 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14088 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14089 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14090 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14091 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14092 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14093 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14095 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14096 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14097 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14098 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14099 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14101 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14102 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14103 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14104 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14105 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14108 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14109 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14110 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14111 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14112 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14114 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14115 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14116 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14118 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14119 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14120 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14121 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14122 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14123 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14126 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14127 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14128 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14129 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14130 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14131 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14132 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14135 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14136 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14137 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14138 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14139 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14140 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14141 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14143 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14144 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14145 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14146 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14149 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14150 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14151 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14152 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14154 o Minor features (geoip):
14155 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14158 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14159 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14160 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14162 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
14163 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
14164 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
14165 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
14166 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
14167 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
14169 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14170 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14171 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14175 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
14176 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14177 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
14178 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14181 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
14182 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14183 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14185 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14186 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14188 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14189 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14190 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14192 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14193 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14194 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14197 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14198 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14199 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14200 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14201 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14202 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14203 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14204 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14205 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14207 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14208 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14209 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14210 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14211 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14212 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14213 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14214 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14215 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14217 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14218 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14219 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14220 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14221 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14224 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14225 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14226 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14227 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14228 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14230 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14231 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14232 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14234 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14235 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14236 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14237 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14238 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14239 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14242 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14243 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14244 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14245 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14246 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14247 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14248 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14251 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14252 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14253 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14254 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14255 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14256 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14257 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14259 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14260 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14261 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14262 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14265 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14266 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14267 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14268 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14270 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14271 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
14272 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
14273 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
14275 o Minor features (geoip):
14276 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14279 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14280 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14281 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14283 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14284 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14285 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14289 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
14290 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
14291 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
14292 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
14294 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
14295 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
14296 least January of 2020.
14298 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14299 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
14300 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
14301 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
14304 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14305 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14306 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14307 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14308 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14309 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14310 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14312 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14313 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14314 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14315 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14316 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14317 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14318 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14320 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14321 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14322 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14324 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14325 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14326 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14328 o Minor features (geoip):
14329 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14332 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14333 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14334 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14336 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
14337 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
14339 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14340 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14341 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14343 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14344 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
14345 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
14346 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14347 Patch by "junglefowl".
14350 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
14351 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
14352 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
14353 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
14354 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
14355 version should upgrade.
14357 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
14358 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
14360 o Major bugfixes (security):
14361 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
14362 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
14363 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
14364 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
14365 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
14366 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14368 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
14369 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
14370 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
14371 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
14372 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
14373 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
14374 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
14375 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
14376 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
14377 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
14378 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14380 o Minor features (geoip):
14381 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14384 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14385 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
14386 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
14387 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
14389 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
14390 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14393 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
14394 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
14395 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
14396 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
14397 become available for their systems.
14399 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
14402 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
14403 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
14405 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
14406 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14407 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14408 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14409 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14410 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14411 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14412 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14413 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14415 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
14416 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
14417 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
14418 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
14419 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
14421 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
14422 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14426 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
14427 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
14429 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
14430 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
14431 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
14432 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
14433 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
14434 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
14435 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
14436 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
14438 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
14440 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
14441 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
14442 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
14443 become available for their systems.
14445 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
14446 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
14448 o New system requirements:
14449 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
14450 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
14451 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
14452 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
14453 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
14454 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
14455 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
14456 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
14457 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
14458 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
14459 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
14461 o Deprecated features:
14462 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
14463 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
14464 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
14465 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
14466 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
14467 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
14468 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
14469 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
14470 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14471 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
14472 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
14473 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
14474 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
14475 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
14476 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
14477 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
14478 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
14479 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
14480 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
14481 and TransListenAddress.
14483 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
14484 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14485 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14486 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14487 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14488 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14489 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14490 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14491 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14493 o Major features (build, hardening):
14494 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
14495 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
14496 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
14497 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
14498 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
14499 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
14500 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
14501 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
14502 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
14504 o Major features (circuit building, security):
14505 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
14506 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
14507 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
14509 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
14510 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
14512 o Major features (compilation):
14513 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
14514 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
14515 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
14516 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
14518 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
14519 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
14520 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
14522 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
14523 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
14524 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
14525 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
14526 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
14527 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
14528 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
14529 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
14531 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
14532 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
14533 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
14534 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
14535 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
14536 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
14537 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
14539 o Major features (resource management):
14540 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
14541 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
14542 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
14543 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
14544 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
14545 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
14547 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
14548 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
14549 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
14550 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
14551 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
14552 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
14553 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
14554 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
14555 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
14556 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
14557 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
14559 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
14560 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
14561 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
14562 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
14563 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
14564 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
14565 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
14566 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
14567 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
14568 part of proposal 264.
14570 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
14571 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
14572 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
14573 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
14575 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
14576 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
14577 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
14578 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
14579 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
14580 download, stop waiting for certificates.
14581 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
14582 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
14583 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
14585 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
14586 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
14587 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
14589 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
14590 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
14591 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
14592 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
14593 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
14594 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
14595 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
14597 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14598 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
14599 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
14600 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
14601 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
14602 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
14603 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
14604 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
14605 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
14606 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
14608 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
14609 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
14610 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
14611 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
14612 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
14613 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14615 o Minor features (port flags):
14616 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
14617 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
14618 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
14619 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
14620 18693; patch by "teor".
14622 o Minor features (build, hardening):
14623 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
14624 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
14625 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
14626 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
14627 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
14628 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
14629 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
14630 Closes ticket 18895.
14632 o Minor features (client, directory):
14633 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
14634 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
14635 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
14638 o Minor features (code safety):
14639 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
14640 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
14641 patch from "U+039b".
14643 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
14644 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
14647 o Minor features (config):
14648 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
14649 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
14651 o Minor features (controller):
14652 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
14653 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
14654 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
14655 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
14656 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
14657 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
14658 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
14659 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
14661 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
14662 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
14663 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
14666 o Minor features (directory authority):
14667 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
14668 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
14669 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
14670 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
14671 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
14672 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
14673 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
14674 Implements ticket 18624.
14675 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
14676 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
14677 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
14680 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
14681 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
14682 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
14683 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
14684 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
14686 o Minor features (hidden service):
14687 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
14688 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
14689 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
14692 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
14693 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
14694 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
14695 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
14696 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
14697 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
14698 Closes ticket 18365.
14699 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
14700 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
14701 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
14702 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
14704 o Minor features (logging):
14705 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
14706 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
14707 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
14708 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
14709 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
14710 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
14711 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
14712 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
14713 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
14714 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
14716 o Minor features (performance):
14717 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
14718 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
14719 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
14720 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
14721 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
14722 Closes ticket 18815.
14724 o Minor features (relay, usability):
14725 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
14726 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
14727 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
14728 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
14731 o Minor features (security, TLS):
14732 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
14733 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
14734 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
14735 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
14737 o Minor features (testing):
14738 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
14739 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
14740 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
14741 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
14742 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
14743 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
14744 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
14745 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
14746 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
14747 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
14749 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
14750 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
14751 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
14752 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
14753 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
14754 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
14755 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
14757 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
14758 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
14759 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
14760 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
14761 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
14762 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
14763 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
14764 assertion as a test failure.
14765 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
14767 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
14768 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
14769 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
14770 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
14771 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
14772 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
14773 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
14774 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
14775 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
14777 o Minor features (Tor2web):
14778 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
14779 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
14780 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
14782 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
14783 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
14784 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
14785 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
14786 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
14788 o Minor features (user interface):
14789 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
14790 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
14791 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
14792 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
14795 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
14796 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
14797 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
14798 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
14801 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
14802 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
14803 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
14804 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
14805 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
14806 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
14808 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14809 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
14810 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
14811 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
14813 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
14814 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
14815 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
14816 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
14817 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
14819 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
14820 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
14821 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
14822 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
14823 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
14825 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
14826 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
14827 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
14828 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
14829 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14831 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
14832 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
14833 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14835 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
14836 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
14837 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14839 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
14840 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
14841 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
14844 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
14845 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
14846 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
14848 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14849 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
14850 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
14852 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
14853 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
14854 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14855 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
14856 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
14857 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
14858 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
14859 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
14861 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14862 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
14863 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
14864 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
14866 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14867 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
14868 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
14869 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14870 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
14871 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
14872 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
14873 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14874 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
14875 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
14877 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
14878 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
14879 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
14880 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
14882 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
14883 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
14884 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
14885 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
14888 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
14889 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
14890 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
14891 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
14893 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
14894 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
14897 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14898 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
14899 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
14900 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
14902 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
14903 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
14905 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
14906 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
14907 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
14908 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
14909 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
14911 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
14912 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
14913 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14915 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
14916 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
14917 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
14919 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14920 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
14921 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
14922 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
14923 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
14924 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14926 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14927 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
14928 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
14930 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
14931 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14932 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
14933 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
14934 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
14935 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
14936 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
14938 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
14939 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
14940 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14941 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
14942 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14943 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
14944 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14945 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
14946 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
14947 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14948 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
14949 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
14950 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14951 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
14952 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
14955 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
14956 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
14957 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
14958 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
14959 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
14960 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
14962 o Minor bugfixes (options):
14963 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
14964 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
14966 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
14967 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
14968 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14971 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14972 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
14973 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14974 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
14975 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
14976 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14978 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14979 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
14980 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
14981 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
14982 patch from "cypherpunks".
14983 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
14984 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
14985 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
14986 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14987 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
14988 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
14989 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
14990 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
14991 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14992 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
14993 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
14995 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
14996 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
14998 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
14999 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
15000 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15001 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
15002 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
15005 o Minor bugfixes (time):
15006 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
15007 bugfix on all released tor versions.
15008 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
15009 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
15010 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
15011 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
15013 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
15014 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
15015 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
15016 19678. Patch by teor.
15018 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
15019 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
15020 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
15021 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
15022 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
15024 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
15025 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15027 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15028 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
15030 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
15031 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
15032 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
15033 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
15036 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
15037 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
15038 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
15039 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
15040 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
15041 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
15042 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
15043 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
15044 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
15045 tickets 19287 and 19290.
15046 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
15047 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15048 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
15049 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
15050 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15051 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
15052 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
15053 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
15055 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
15056 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
15057 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
15058 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
15061 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
15062 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
15064 o Removed features:
15065 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
15066 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
15067 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
15068 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
15069 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
15070 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
15071 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
15074 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
15075 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
15076 command-line options to enable them.
15077 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
15078 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
15081 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
15082 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
15083 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
15084 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
15087 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15088 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
15089 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
15090 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
15091 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
15092 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
15095 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15096 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
15097 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
15100 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
15101 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
15102 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
15103 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
15105 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15106 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
15107 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
15108 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15111 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15112 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
15113 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
15114 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15117 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
15118 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
15119 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
15122 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15123 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
15124 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15126 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15127 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
15128 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
15130 o Minor features (geoip):
15131 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15135 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
15136 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
15137 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
15138 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
15139 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
15142 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15143 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15144 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15145 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15146 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15147 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15148 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15149 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15150 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15152 o Minor features (geoip):
15153 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15157 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
15158 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
15159 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
15160 who select public relays as their bridges.
15162 o Major bugfixes (crash):
15163 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
15164 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
15165 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
15166 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
15167 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15169 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
15170 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
15171 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
15172 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
15173 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
15176 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
15177 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
15178 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
15180 o Minor features (geoip):
15181 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15185 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
15186 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
15187 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
15188 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
15189 encouraged to upgrade.
15191 o Directory authority changes:
15192 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15193 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15195 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
15196 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
15197 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
15198 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
15199 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
15200 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15202 o Minor features (geoip):
15203 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15206 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15207 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
15208 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
15211 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15212 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
15213 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
15214 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
15217 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
15219 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
15221 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
15222 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
15223 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
15224 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
15225 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
15226 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
15228 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
15230 o New system requirements:
15231 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
15232 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
15233 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
15235 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
15236 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
15237 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
15238 longer runs with, these versions.
15239 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
15240 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
15241 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
15242 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
15243 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
15245 o Directory authority changes:
15246 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15247 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15249 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15251 o Major features (directory system):
15252 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
15253 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
15254 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
15255 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
15256 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
15257 gsathya, and karsten.
15258 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
15259 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
15260 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
15261 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
15262 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
15264 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
15265 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
15266 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
15267 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
15268 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
15269 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
15270 mikeperry and teor.
15272 o Major features (security, Linux):
15273 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
15274 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
15275 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
15276 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
15277 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
15279 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
15280 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
15281 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
15282 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
15283 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
15284 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
15285 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
15287 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
15288 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
15291 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
15292 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15293 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15295 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
15296 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
15297 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
15298 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
15299 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
15301 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
15302 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
15303 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
15304 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15305 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
15306 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
15307 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
15308 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
15309 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
15310 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15312 o Major bugfixes (key management):
15313 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15314 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15315 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15316 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15317 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15318 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15321 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
15322 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15323 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15324 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15325 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15327 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
15328 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
15329 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
15330 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
15331 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
15332 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
15333 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
15334 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
15335 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15337 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
15338 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15339 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15340 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15341 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15343 o Major bugfixes (testing):
15344 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
15345 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15347 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
15348 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
15349 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
15350 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15352 o Minor features (accounting):
15353 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
15354 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
15355 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
15356 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
15358 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
15359 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15360 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15361 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15362 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
15363 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
15364 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
15367 o Minor features (build):
15368 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
15369 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
15370 Steven Chamberlain.
15371 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
15372 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
15373 patch from "cypherpunks".
15374 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
15375 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
15376 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
15377 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
15378 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
15379 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
15380 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
15381 Patch from intrigeri.
15383 o Minor features (clients):
15384 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
15385 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
15386 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
15388 o Minor features (controller):
15389 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
15390 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
15391 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
15393 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
15394 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
15395 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
15396 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
15397 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
15399 o Minor features (crypto):
15400 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
15401 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
15403 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
15404 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
15405 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15406 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
15407 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
15409 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
15410 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
15411 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
15412 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
15414 o Minor features (directory downloads):
15415 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
15416 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
15417 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
15418 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
15419 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
15420 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
15421 17864; patch by teor.
15423 o Minor features (geoip):
15424 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15427 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
15428 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
15429 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
15430 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
15431 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
15433 o Minor features (IPv6):
15434 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
15435 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
15436 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
15437 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
15438 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
15439 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
15440 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
15441 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
15442 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
15443 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
15444 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
15445 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
15447 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
15448 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
15449 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
15450 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
15451 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
15452 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
15453 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
15454 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
15455 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
15456 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
15458 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15459 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
15460 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
15461 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
15462 while fixing 18548.
15464 o Minor features (logging):
15465 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
15466 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
15467 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
15468 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
15471 o Minor features (portability):
15472 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
15473 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
15475 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
15476 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
15477 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
15478 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
15479 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
15481 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
15482 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
15483 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
15484 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
15485 Resolves ticket 17951.
15487 o Minor features (replay cache):
15488 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
15489 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
15491 o Minor features (robustness):
15492 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
15493 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
15494 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
15496 o Minor features (security, clock):
15497 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
15498 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
15499 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
15500 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
15502 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
15503 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
15504 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
15505 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
15506 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
15507 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
15509 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
15510 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15511 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15512 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15514 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
15515 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
15516 Implements ticket 17026.
15517 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
15518 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
15519 Implements feature 17986.
15520 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
15521 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
15522 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
15524 o Minor features (security, RNG):
15525 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
15526 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
15527 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
15528 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
15529 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
15530 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
15531 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
15532 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
15533 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
15534 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
15537 o Minor features (security, win32):
15538 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
15539 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
15542 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
15543 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
15544 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
15545 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
15546 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
15547 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
15548 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
15551 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
15552 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
15553 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
15554 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
15555 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15556 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
15557 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
15558 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
15559 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
15560 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
15561 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15562 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
15563 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
15564 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15566 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
15567 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
15568 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
15569 from "unixninja92".
15571 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
15572 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
15573 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
15576 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
15577 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
15578 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
15580 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15581 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
15582 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
15583 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15584 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
15585 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
15587 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
15588 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
15590 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
15591 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
15592 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
15593 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
15594 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
15596 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
15597 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15598 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
15599 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
15600 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15601 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
15603 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
15604 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
15605 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
15606 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
15607 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15608 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
15609 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
15610 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15611 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
15612 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
15613 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
15615 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
15616 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
15619 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
15620 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
15621 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
15622 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
15623 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15625 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15626 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
15627 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
15628 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
15629 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
15630 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15631 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
15632 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
15634 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
15636 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
15637 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
15638 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
15640 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
15641 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
15642 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15644 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15645 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
15646 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15648 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
15649 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
15650 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
15651 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
15653 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
15654 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
15655 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
15656 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
15657 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15659 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
15660 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
15661 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
15663 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
15664 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
15665 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
15666 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
15667 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
15668 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15669 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
15670 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
15671 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
15673 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
15674 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
15675 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
15676 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
15679 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
15680 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
15681 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
15682 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
15683 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
15685 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15686 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
15687 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
15688 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
15689 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
15690 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
15691 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
15692 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
15694 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
15695 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
15696 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
15697 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
15698 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
15699 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
15700 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
15701 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
15702 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
15705 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
15706 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
15707 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
15708 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15710 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
15711 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
15712 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
15714 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
15715 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
15716 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15718 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15719 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
15720 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
15721 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
15722 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
15723 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
15724 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
15725 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15726 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
15727 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
15728 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15729 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
15730 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
15731 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15732 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
15733 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15734 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
15735 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
15736 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
15738 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15739 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
15740 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
15741 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
15742 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
15744 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
15745 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15746 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
15747 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
15748 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
15749 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
15750 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
15751 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
15752 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
15753 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15754 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
15755 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
15758 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
15759 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
15760 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
15761 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
15763 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
15764 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15765 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
15768 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
15769 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
15770 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
15771 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
15773 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
15774 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
15775 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
15776 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
15777 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
15778 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
15781 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
15782 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
15783 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
15784 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
15786 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
15787 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
15788 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
15789 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
15790 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
15791 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
15792 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
15793 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
15794 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15796 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
15797 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
15798 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
15799 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
15800 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
15802 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
15803 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
15804 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
15805 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
15807 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
15808 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
15809 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
15810 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
15811 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
15812 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
15813 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
15814 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
15816 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
15817 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
15819 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
15820 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
15821 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
15824 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15825 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
15826 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
15827 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
15829 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
15830 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
15831 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15832 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
15833 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
15834 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
15835 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
15836 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
15837 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
15838 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
15839 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15840 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
15841 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
15842 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
15843 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
15844 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15846 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
15847 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
15848 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
15849 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
15850 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
15851 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
15852 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
15854 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
15855 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
15856 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
15857 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
15859 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15860 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
15861 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
15863 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
15864 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
15865 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
15866 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
15868 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
15869 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
15870 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
15871 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
15872 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
15873 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
15874 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
15875 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
15876 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
15877 17744. Patch from zerosion.
15878 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
15879 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
15880 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
15881 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
15882 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
15883 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
15884 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
15885 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
15886 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
15887 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
15888 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
15889 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
15893 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
15894 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
15895 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
15896 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
15897 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
15898 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
15899 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
15900 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
15901 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
15902 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
15903 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
15904 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
15906 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
15907 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
15909 o Removed features:
15910 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
15911 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
15912 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
15913 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
15914 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
15915 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
15916 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
15917 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
15920 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
15921 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
15922 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
15923 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
15924 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
15925 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
15926 portion of ticket 16831.
15927 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
15929 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
15930 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
15931 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
15932 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
15933 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
15935 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
15936 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
15937 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
15938 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
15941 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
15942 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
15943 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
15945 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
15946 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15947 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15948 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15949 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15950 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15953 o Minor features (geoip):
15954 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
15957 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15958 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
15959 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
15960 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
15961 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15962 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15964 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15965 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
15966 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
15967 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
15968 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
15969 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
15970 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
15971 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15972 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
15973 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15976 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
15977 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
15978 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
15979 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
15980 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
15981 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
15982 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
15983 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
15984 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
15985 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
15986 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
15987 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
15988 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
15989 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
15990 that would make him proud.
15992 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
15994 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
15995 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
15996 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
15997 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
15998 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
15999 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
16000 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
16002 o New system requirements:
16003 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
16004 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
16006 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
16007 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
16008 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
16009 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
16010 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
16011 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
16012 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
16013 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
16014 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
16015 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
16016 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
16017 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
16018 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
16020 o Major features (controller):
16021 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
16022 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
16024 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
16025 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
16026 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
16027 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
16028 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
16029 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
16030 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
16032 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
16033 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
16034 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
16035 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
16036 key). Closes ticket 13642.
16037 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
16038 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
16039 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
16040 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
16041 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
16042 Implements part of ticket 12498.
16043 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
16044 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16045 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
16046 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
16047 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16048 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
16049 part of ticket 12498.
16050 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
16051 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
16053 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
16054 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
16055 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
16056 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
16057 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
16058 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
16059 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
16060 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
16061 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
16064 o Major features (ECC performance):
16065 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
16066 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
16068 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
16069 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
16070 available. Implements ticket 16535.
16071 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
16072 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
16073 Implements ticket 16467.
16074 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
16075 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
16076 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
16077 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
16079 o Major features (Hidden services):
16080 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
16081 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
16082 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
16083 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
16084 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
16085 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
16086 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
16087 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
16088 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
16089 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
16090 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
16091 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
16093 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
16094 introduction points, which used to change the number of
16095 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
16096 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
16098 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
16099 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
16100 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
16101 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
16102 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
16103 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
16105 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
16106 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
16107 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
16108 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
16109 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
16110 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
16112 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16113 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
16114 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
16115 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
16116 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
16117 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
16118 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
16119 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
16122 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16123 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
16124 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
16125 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
16127 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
16128 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
16129 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
16130 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
16131 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
16132 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
16135 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
16136 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
16137 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
16139 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
16140 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
16141 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
16142 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
16143 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
16144 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
16146 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
16147 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
16148 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
16149 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
16150 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16153 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16154 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
16155 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
16156 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
16157 by "cypherpunks_backup".
16158 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
16159 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
16160 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
16163 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
16164 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
16165 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
16166 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
16168 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
16169 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
16170 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
16171 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16172 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
16173 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
16174 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
16177 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
16178 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
16179 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
16180 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
16181 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
16182 own. Implements feature 15482.
16183 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
16184 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
16186 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
16187 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
16188 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
16189 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
16190 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
16192 o Minor features (command-line interface):
16193 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
16194 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16195 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
16196 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
16198 o Minor features (compilation):
16199 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
16200 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
16201 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
16202 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
16203 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
16205 o Minor features (control protocol):
16206 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
16207 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
16209 o Minor features (controller):
16210 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
16211 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
16212 present. Implements ticket 14840.
16213 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
16214 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
16215 Closes ticket 14845.
16216 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
16217 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
16218 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
16220 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16221 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
16222 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
16223 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
16224 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
16225 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
16227 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
16228 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
16229 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
16230 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
16231 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
16232 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
16233 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
16235 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
16236 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
16237 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
16238 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
16240 o Minor features (geoip):
16241 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16244 o Minor features (hidden services):
16245 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
16246 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
16247 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
16248 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
16250 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
16251 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
16252 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
16254 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
16255 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
16256 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
16257 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
16258 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
16259 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
16260 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
16261 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
16263 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
16264 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
16265 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
16266 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
16267 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
16268 Closes ticket 15745.
16270 o Minor features (logging):
16271 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
16272 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
16275 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
16276 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
16277 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
16278 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
16280 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
16281 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
16282 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
16283 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
16284 Resolves ticket 15435.
16286 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
16287 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
16288 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
16289 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16290 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
16291 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
16292 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
16293 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16294 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
16295 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
16296 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
16297 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
16298 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
16299 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
16300 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
16301 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
16302 Related to ticket 16069.
16304 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
16305 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
16306 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
16308 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
16309 stderr, not stdout.
16310 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
16311 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
16312 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
16315 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16316 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
16317 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
16318 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
16319 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
16321 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
16322 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
16323 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
16324 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
16326 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
16327 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
16328 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
16329 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
16330 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
16331 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
16332 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
16333 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16335 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16336 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
16337 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
16338 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16340 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16341 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
16342 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
16344 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
16345 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
16346 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
16348 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
16349 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
16350 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
16351 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16353 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
16354 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
16355 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
16356 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
16357 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
16358 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
16360 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16361 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16362 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16364 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
16365 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16367 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16368 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
16369 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16370 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
16371 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16372 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
16373 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
16374 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
16376 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
16377 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
16378 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
16379 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
16381 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
16382 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
16383 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
16385 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
16386 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
16387 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
16390 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16391 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
16392 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
16393 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
16394 recent enough Clang.
16396 o Minor bugfixes (network):
16397 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
16398 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
16399 unsuitable for public communications.
16401 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
16402 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
16403 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
16404 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
16406 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16407 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
16408 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16409 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
16410 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
16412 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
16413 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
16415 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16416 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
16417 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
16418 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
16419 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
16421 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
16422 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
16423 from "cypherpunks".
16424 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
16425 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
16428 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
16429 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
16430 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
16431 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
16432 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
16434 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16435 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
16436 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
16437 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
16438 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
16439 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
16441 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
16442 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
16443 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
16444 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16446 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
16447 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
16448 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
16449 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
16450 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
16451 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
16452 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
16453 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
16455 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
16456 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
16457 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
16459 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16460 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
16461 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
16462 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
16463 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
16464 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
16465 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
16466 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
16467 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
16468 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
16469 function. Closes ticket 16763.
16470 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
16471 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
16473 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
16474 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
16475 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
16476 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
16477 haven't supported that in ages.
16478 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
16479 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
16480 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
16481 suite of other microdesc functions.
16482 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
16483 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
16484 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
16485 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
16486 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
16487 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
16488 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
16489 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
16490 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
16491 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
16492 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
16493 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
16494 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
16495 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
16496 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
16497 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
16499 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
16500 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
16504 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
16505 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
16506 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
16508 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
16509 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16510 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
16511 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
16512 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
16513 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
16514 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
16515 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
16516 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
16517 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
16519 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
16521 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
16522 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
16523 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
16524 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
16525 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
16526 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
16527 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
16528 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
16529 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
16530 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
16531 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
16532 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
16533 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
16535 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
16536 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16539 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
16540 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
16541 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
16542 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
16543 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
16544 Closes ticket 14922.
16545 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
16546 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
16547 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
16548 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
16549 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
16550 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
16551 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
16552 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
16553 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
16554 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
16555 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
16556 Closes ticket 13338.
16558 o Removed features:
16559 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
16560 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
16561 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
16562 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
16563 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
16564 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
16565 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
16566 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
16567 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
16568 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
16569 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
16570 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
16571 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
16572 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
16573 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
16576 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
16577 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
16578 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
16579 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
16580 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
16581 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
16582 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
16583 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
16584 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
16585 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
16586 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
16588 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
16589 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
16590 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
16591 Closes ticket 15817.
16592 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
16593 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
16594 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
16595 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
16596 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
16597 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
16598 network before we begin.
16599 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
16600 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
16601 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
16602 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
16603 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
16604 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
16606 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
16607 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
16609 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
16610 default as a part of "make check".
16611 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
16612 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
16613 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
16614 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
16615 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
16616 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
16617 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
16618 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
16619 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
16620 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
16621 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
16622 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
16623 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
16624 files. Closes ticket 15180.
16625 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
16626 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
16627 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
16628 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
16629 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
16630 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
16631 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
16632 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
16633 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
16634 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
16635 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
16636 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
16637 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
16638 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
16639 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
16640 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
16641 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
16643 - Set the severity correctly when testing
16644 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
16645 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
16646 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
16647 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
16649 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
16650 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
16651 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
16652 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
16653 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
16654 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
16656 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
16657 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
16658 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
16659 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
16660 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
16661 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
16662 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
16663 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
16666 o Major bugfixes (stability):
16667 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
16668 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
16669 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
16670 by "cypherpunks_backup".
16671 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
16672 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
16673 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
16676 o Minor features (geoip):
16677 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16678 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16680 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
16681 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
16682 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
16683 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
16684 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
16685 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
16687 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16688 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
16689 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
16690 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
16693 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
16694 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
16695 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
16696 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
16697 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
16699 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
16700 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
16701 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
16702 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
16703 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
16706 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
16707 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
16708 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
16709 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
16710 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
16711 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
16712 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
16714 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16715 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
16716 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
16717 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
16719 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16720 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
16721 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
16722 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
16723 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
16724 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
16727 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
16728 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
16729 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
16732 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
16733 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
16734 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
16735 authorities should upgrade.
16737 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16738 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
16739 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
16740 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
16743 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16744 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16745 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16748 o Minor features (geoip):
16749 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
16750 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16754 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
16755 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
16756 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
16757 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
16758 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
16760 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
16761 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
16763 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
16764 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
16765 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
16766 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
16767 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
16768 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16769 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
16771 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
16772 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
16773 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
16774 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
16775 Resolves ticket 15515.
16776 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
16777 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
16778 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
16782 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
16783 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
16784 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
16785 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
16786 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
16788 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
16789 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
16791 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
16792 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
16793 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
16794 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
16795 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
16796 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16797 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
16799 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
16800 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
16801 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
16802 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
16803 Resolves ticket 15515.
16806 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
16807 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
16808 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
16809 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
16810 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
16812 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
16813 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
16815 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
16816 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
16817 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
16818 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
16819 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
16820 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
16821 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
16823 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
16824 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
16825 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
16826 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
16827 Resolves ticket 15515.
16830 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
16831 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
16833 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
16834 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
16835 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
16836 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
16837 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
16838 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
16839 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
16840 bugs should be addressed.
16842 o New compiler and system requirements:
16843 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
16844 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
16845 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
16846 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
16848 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
16849 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
16850 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
16851 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
16852 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
16853 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
16854 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
16855 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
16856 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
16858 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
16859 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
16860 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
16861 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
16862 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
16863 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
16864 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
16866 o Directory authority changes:
16867 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
16868 closes ticket 14487.
16869 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
16870 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
16871 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
16873 o Major features (bridges):
16874 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
16875 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
16876 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
16879 o Major features (changed defaults):
16880 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
16881 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
16882 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
16883 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
16884 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
16885 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
16887 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
16888 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
16889 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
16890 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
16893 o Major features (directory system):
16894 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
16895 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
16896 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
16897 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
16898 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
16899 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
16900 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
16901 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
16902 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
16903 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
16904 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
16905 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
16906 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
16907 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
16908 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
16909 227. Closes ticket 10395.
16911 o Major features (guards):
16912 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
16913 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
16914 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
16915 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
16916 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
16918 o Major features (hidden services):
16919 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
16920 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
16921 Closes ticket 13667.
16922 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
16923 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
16924 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
16925 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
16926 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
16927 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
16928 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
16929 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
16930 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
16931 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
16932 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
16934 o Major features (performance):
16935 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
16936 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
16937 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
16938 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
16939 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
16940 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
16941 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
16942 Implements ticket 9682.
16944 o Major features (relay):
16945 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
16946 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
16947 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
16948 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
16949 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
16950 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
16951 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
16952 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
16954 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
16955 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
16956 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
16957 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
16958 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
16959 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
16960 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
16963 o Major features (sample torrc):
16964 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
16965 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
16966 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
16967 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
16968 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
16969 generally useful "sample torrc".
16971 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
16972 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
16973 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
16974 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
16975 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
16976 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
16978 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
16979 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
16980 Implements ticket 11485.
16982 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
16983 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
16984 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
16985 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
16986 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
16987 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
16990 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
16991 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
16992 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
16995 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
16996 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
16997 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16999 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
17000 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
17001 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
17002 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
17003 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17005 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
17006 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17007 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17008 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17010 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
17011 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
17012 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
17015 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17016 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
17017 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
17018 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
17019 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
17020 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
17022 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17023 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
17024 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
17025 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
17027 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
17028 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
17029 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
17030 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
17031 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
17032 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
17033 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
17035 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17036 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
17037 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
17038 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
17039 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
17040 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17042 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
17043 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17044 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
17045 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17046 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17047 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17048 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17049 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17051 o Minor features (build):
17052 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
17053 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
17054 Resolves ticket 13037.
17056 o Minor features (client):
17057 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
17058 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
17059 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
17060 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
17062 o Minor features (client):
17063 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
17064 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
17065 Resolves ticket 13315.
17067 o Minor features (controller):
17068 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
17069 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
17071 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
17072 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
17074 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
17075 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
17076 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
17077 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
17078 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
17079 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
17080 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
17081 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
17082 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
17084 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
17085 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
17086 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
17087 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
17088 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
17089 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
17090 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
17091 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
17092 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
17093 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
17095 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17096 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
17097 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
17098 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
17099 argument more than once.
17100 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
17101 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
17102 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
17103 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
17104 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
17105 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
17107 o Minor features (geoip):
17108 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17109 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17112 o Minor features (guard nodes):
17113 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
17114 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
17115 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
17117 o Minor features (heartbeat):
17118 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
17119 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
17120 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
17121 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
17123 o Minor features (hidden service):
17124 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
17125 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
17126 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
17127 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
17128 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
17129 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
17130 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
17131 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
17132 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
17133 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
17134 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
17135 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
17136 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
17137 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
17139 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
17140 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
17141 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
17143 o Minor features (interface):
17144 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
17145 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
17146 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
17148 o Minor features (logging):
17149 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
17150 Resolves ticket 6852.
17151 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
17152 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
17153 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
17155 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
17156 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
17157 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
17158 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
17159 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
17160 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
17161 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
17162 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
17163 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
17164 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
17165 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
17166 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
17169 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
17170 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
17171 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
17172 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
17174 o Minor features (relay):
17175 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
17176 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
17177 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
17179 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
17180 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
17181 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
17182 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
17183 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
17184 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
17185 document. Implements feature 10427.
17187 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
17188 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
17189 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
17190 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
17192 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
17193 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
17194 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
17195 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
17196 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
17197 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
17199 o Minor features (stability):
17200 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
17201 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
17204 o Minor features (systemd):
17205 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
17206 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
17207 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
17208 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17209 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
17210 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17212 o Minor features (testing networks):
17213 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
17214 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
17215 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
17216 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
17217 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
17219 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
17220 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
17221 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
17222 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
17223 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
17224 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
17226 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
17227 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
17228 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
17229 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
17230 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
17232 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
17233 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
17234 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
17235 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
17236 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
17238 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
17239 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
17240 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
17241 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
17242 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
17245 o Minor features (validation):
17246 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
17247 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
17248 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
17249 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
17250 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
17251 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
17252 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
17253 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
17254 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
17255 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
17256 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
17259 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
17260 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
17261 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
17262 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17264 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
17265 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
17266 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
17267 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17269 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
17270 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
17271 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
17273 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
17274 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
17275 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
17277 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
17278 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17279 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
17280 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
17281 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17282 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
17283 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17285 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
17286 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
17287 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
17288 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17289 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
17290 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
17291 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
17292 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
17293 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
17295 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17296 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
17297 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
17298 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
17299 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
17300 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17301 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
17302 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
17303 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
17305 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
17306 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
17307 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
17308 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17309 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
17310 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17311 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
17312 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
17314 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
17315 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
17316 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
17319 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
17320 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
17321 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
17322 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
17323 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
17325 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
17326 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
17327 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
17328 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17329 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
17330 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
17331 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
17332 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17334 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
17335 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
17336 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
17337 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
17338 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17340 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
17341 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
17342 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
17343 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
17344 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
17346 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
17347 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
17348 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17350 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
17351 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
17352 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
17353 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
17354 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
17356 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
17357 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
17358 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
17360 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17361 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
17363 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
17364 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
17365 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
17366 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
17368 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
17369 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
17371 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
17372 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
17373 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
17374 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
17375 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
17376 Addresses ticket 14188.
17377 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
17378 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
17379 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
17380 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
17381 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
17382 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
17383 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
17384 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17385 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
17386 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
17387 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
17390 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17391 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
17392 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
17393 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
17394 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
17395 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17397 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17398 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
17399 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
17400 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
17401 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
17403 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17404 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
17405 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
17406 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
17407 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
17408 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
17409 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
17410 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17411 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
17412 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17413 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
17414 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
17415 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17416 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
17417 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
17418 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17420 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
17421 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
17422 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
17423 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17424 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
17425 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
17426 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
17427 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
17430 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
17431 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
17432 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
17433 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
17434 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
17435 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
17436 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
17437 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
17438 state, and key files.
17439 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
17440 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
17443 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17444 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
17445 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
17446 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
17447 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17448 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
17449 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
17450 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17451 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
17452 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
17453 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
17454 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
17455 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
17456 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
17457 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
17458 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
17459 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
17460 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
17463 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17464 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
17465 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
17466 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
17467 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
17468 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
17469 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
17470 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
17471 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
17472 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17474 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17475 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
17476 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17477 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
17478 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
17479 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
17481 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
17482 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17484 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
17485 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
17486 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
17487 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
17488 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17490 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
17491 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
17492 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
17493 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
17494 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
17495 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17497 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17498 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
17499 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
17501 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
17502 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
17503 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
17505 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
17506 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
17507 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
17508 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
17509 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
17511 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
17512 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
17513 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
17516 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17517 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
17518 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
17519 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
17520 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
17523 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
17524 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
17525 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
17526 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
17529 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
17530 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
17531 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
17534 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17535 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
17536 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17538 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
17539 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
17540 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
17541 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
17542 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
17545 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
17546 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
17547 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17548 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
17549 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
17550 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
17552 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
17553 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
17554 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
17555 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
17556 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
17557 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
17559 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
17560 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
17561 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
17562 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
17563 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17564 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
17565 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
17566 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
17567 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
17568 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
17569 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
17570 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
17571 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
17572 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
17573 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
17574 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
17575 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
17576 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
17577 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
17578 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17579 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
17580 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
17581 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
17582 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
17583 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
17584 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
17585 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
17586 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17587 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
17588 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
17589 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
17590 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
17592 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
17593 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
17594 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
17595 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
17596 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17598 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17599 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
17600 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
17601 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
17602 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
17603 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17604 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
17605 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
17606 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17608 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
17609 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
17610 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
17612 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
17613 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
17614 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
17617 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
17618 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
17619 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
17620 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
17623 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
17624 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
17625 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17627 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17628 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
17629 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
17631 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
17632 Resolves ticket 12205.
17633 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
17634 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
17635 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
17636 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
17638 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
17639 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
17640 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
17642 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
17643 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
17645 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
17646 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
17647 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
17648 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
17649 or_options_t structure.
17650 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
17651 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
17652 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
17653 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
17654 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
17655 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
17656 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
17657 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
17659 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
17660 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
17662 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
17664 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
17665 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
17666 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
17667 with a function instead.
17668 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
17669 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
17670 Closes ticket 13172.
17671 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
17672 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
17673 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
17674 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
17675 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
17676 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
17677 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
17678 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
17679 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
17680 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
17681 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
17682 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
17686 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
17687 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
17688 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
17689 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
17691 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
17692 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
17693 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
17694 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
17695 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
17696 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
17697 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
17698 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
17699 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
17700 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
17701 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
17702 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
17703 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
17704 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
17705 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
17706 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
17707 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
17708 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
17710 o Distribution (systemd):
17711 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
17712 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
17713 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
17714 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
17715 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
17717 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
17718 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
17720 o Downgraded warnings:
17721 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
17722 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
17725 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
17726 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
17727 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
17730 o Removed features (directory authorities):
17731 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
17732 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
17733 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
17734 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
17735 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
17736 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
17737 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
17738 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
17739 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
17741 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
17742 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
17743 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
17744 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
17747 o Removed features:
17748 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
17749 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
17750 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
17751 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
17752 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
17754 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
17755 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
17756 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
17757 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
17758 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
17759 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
17760 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
17761 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
17762 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
17764 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
17765 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
17767 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
17768 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
17769 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
17770 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
17771 anymore, and ignore it.
17773 o Removed platform support:
17774 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
17775 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
17776 Closes ticket 11446.
17778 o Testing (test-network.sh):
17779 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
17780 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
17782 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
17784 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
17785 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
17786 Partially implements ticket 13161.
17789 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
17790 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
17791 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
17792 (existing behavior).
17793 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
17794 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
17795 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
17796 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
17797 Closes ticket 14107.
17798 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
17799 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17800 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
17801 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
17803 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
17804 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
17805 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
17806 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
17807 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
17808 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
17810 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
17812 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
17813 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
17814 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
17815 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
17816 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
17817 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
17818 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
17819 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
17820 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
17821 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
17822 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
17823 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
17825 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
17826 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
17827 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
17829 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
17830 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
17832 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
17833 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
17834 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
17836 o Directory authority changes:
17837 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17838 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17839 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17840 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17841 closes ticket 14487.
17843 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
17844 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
17845 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
17848 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
17849 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17850 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
17851 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17852 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
17853 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17854 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17855 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17857 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
17858 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17859 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17860 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17862 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17863 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
17864 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
17865 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
17867 o Minor features (controller):
17868 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
17869 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
17870 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
17872 o Minor features (geoip):
17873 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17874 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17877 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
17878 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
17879 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
17880 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17881 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
17882 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17884 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17885 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
17886 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
17887 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
17889 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17890 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
17891 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
17892 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
17893 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
17894 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
17895 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
17896 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17898 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17899 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
17900 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17902 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
17903 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
17904 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
17905 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
17906 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
17910 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
17911 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
17912 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
17915 o Directory authority changes:
17916 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17917 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17918 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17919 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17920 closes ticket 14487.
17922 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
17923 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17924 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17925 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17927 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
17928 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17929 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
17930 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17931 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
17932 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17933 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17934 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17936 o Minor features (geoip):
17937 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17938 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17941 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
17942 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
17944 It adds several new security features, including improved
17945 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
17946 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
17947 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
17948 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
17949 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
17950 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
17951 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
17952 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
17953 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
17954 and features mentioned below.
17956 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
17957 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
17959 o Major features (security):
17960 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
17961 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
17962 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
17963 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
17964 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
17965 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
17966 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
17967 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
17968 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
17969 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
17971 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
17972 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
17973 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
17974 streams attached to each circuit.
17976 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
17977 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
17978 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
17979 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
17980 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
17981 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
17982 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
17983 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
17984 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
17985 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
17986 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
17987 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
17988 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
17990 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
17991 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
17992 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
17993 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
17995 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
17996 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
17997 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
17998 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
17999 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
18000 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
18002 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
18003 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
18004 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
18005 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
18006 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
18007 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
18008 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
18009 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
18012 o Major features (controller):
18013 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
18014 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
18015 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
18016 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
18017 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
18018 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
18020 o Major features (relay performance):
18021 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
18022 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
18023 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
18024 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
18025 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
18026 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
18027 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
18028 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
18029 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
18030 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
18032 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
18033 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
18034 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
18035 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
18036 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
18037 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
18038 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
18039 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
18040 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
18041 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
18043 o Major features (testing networks):
18044 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
18045 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
18046 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
18047 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
18048 Implements ticket 8530.
18050 o Major features (other):
18051 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
18052 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
18053 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
18054 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
18055 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
18056 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
18058 o Deprecated versions:
18059 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
18060 attention for some while.
18062 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
18063 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
18064 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
18066 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
18067 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
18068 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
18069 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
18070 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
18071 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
18072 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
18073 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
18074 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
18075 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
18076 router's identity is not forgeable.
18078 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
18079 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
18080 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
18081 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
18083 o Major bugfixes (client):
18084 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
18085 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
18086 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
18087 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
18088 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
18089 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
18090 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
18091 to build circuits".
18093 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
18094 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
18095 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
18096 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
18099 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
18100 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
18101 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
18102 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
18103 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
18104 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
18105 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18107 o Major bugfixes (relay):
18108 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
18109 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18110 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18111 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
18112 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
18113 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
18114 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18115 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
18116 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
18117 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
18118 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
18119 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
18120 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
18121 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
18122 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
18123 bugfix on every version of Tor.
18125 o Minor features (security):
18126 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
18127 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
18128 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
18129 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
18131 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
18132 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
18133 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
18134 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
18135 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
18136 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
18137 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
18139 o Minor features (security, memory management):
18140 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
18141 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
18142 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
18143 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
18144 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
18145 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
18147 o Minor features (bridge client):
18148 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
18149 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
18150 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
18152 o Minor features (bridge):
18153 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
18154 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
18156 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
18157 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
18158 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
18159 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
18160 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
18161 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
18162 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
18163 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
18164 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
18165 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
18166 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
18167 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
18168 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
18169 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
18170 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
18172 o Minor features (build):
18173 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
18174 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
18175 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
18176 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
18177 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
18178 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
18179 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
18180 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
18181 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
18182 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
18183 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
18184 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
18185 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
18186 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
18187 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
18190 o Minor features (client):
18191 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
18192 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
18193 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
18194 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
18196 o Minor features (config options and command line):
18197 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
18198 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
18199 Implements ticket 10060.
18200 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
18201 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
18202 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
18204 o Minor features (config options):
18205 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
18206 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
18207 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
18208 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
18209 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
18210 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
18211 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
18212 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
18213 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
18214 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
18215 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
18216 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
18217 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
18218 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
18219 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
18220 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
18221 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
18224 o Minor features (controller):
18225 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
18226 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
18228 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
18229 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
18230 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
18231 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
18232 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
18233 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
18234 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
18235 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
18237 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
18238 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
18239 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
18241 o Minor features (diagnostic):
18242 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
18243 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
18244 help diagnose bug 7164.
18245 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
18246 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
18247 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
18248 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
18249 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
18251 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
18252 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
18253 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
18254 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
18255 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
18256 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
18257 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
18258 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
18259 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
18260 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
18261 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
18262 still referenced by a live node_t object.
18263 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
18264 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
18265 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
18267 o Minor features (geoip):
18268 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18271 o Minor features (interface):
18272 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
18273 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
18274 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
18275 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
18277 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
18278 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
18279 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
18281 o Minor features (log messages):
18282 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
18283 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
18284 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
18285 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
18286 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
18287 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
18288 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
18289 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
18291 o Minor features (log verbosity):
18292 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
18293 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
18294 Resolves ticket 5286.
18295 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
18296 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
18297 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
18298 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
18299 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
18300 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
18302 o Minor features (performance):
18303 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
18304 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
18305 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
18306 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
18307 Closes ticket 8109.
18309 o Minor features (relay):
18310 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
18311 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
18312 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
18314 o Minor features (testing):
18315 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
18316 the unit test scripts.
18317 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
18318 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
18319 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
18320 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
18322 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
18323 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
18324 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
18325 10267; patch from "yurivict".
18326 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
18327 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
18328 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
18329 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
18330 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
18331 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
18333 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
18334 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
18335 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
18336 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18338 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18339 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
18340 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
18341 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
18342 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
18343 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
18344 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
18345 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
18346 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
18347 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
18349 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
18350 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
18351 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
18353 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
18354 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
18355 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
18356 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
18357 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18359 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18360 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
18361 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
18362 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
18363 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18364 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
18365 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
18366 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
18367 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18368 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
18369 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
18370 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
18372 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
18373 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
18374 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
18375 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
18376 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
18377 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18378 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
18379 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
18380 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18381 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
18382 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
18383 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18385 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
18386 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
18387 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
18388 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
18390 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
18391 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
18392 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
18393 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
18396 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
18397 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
18398 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
18399 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18400 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
18401 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
18404 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
18405 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
18406 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
18407 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
18408 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
18410 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
18411 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
18412 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
18415 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
18416 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
18417 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
18418 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
18419 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
18420 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
18421 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
18422 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
18423 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
18424 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
18426 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
18427 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
18428 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
18429 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
18430 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
18432 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
18433 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
18435 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18436 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
18437 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
18438 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
18439 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
18440 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
18441 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
18442 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
18443 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
18444 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18445 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
18446 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
18447 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
18449 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
18450 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
18451 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
18452 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
18453 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
18454 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
18455 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
18456 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
18457 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
18458 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
18459 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
18460 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
18461 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
18463 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
18464 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
18465 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
18467 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
18468 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
18469 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
18470 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
18471 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
18472 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
18474 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
18475 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
18476 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
18477 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
18478 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
18479 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
18480 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
18481 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
18482 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
18483 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18485 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18486 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
18487 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18489 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
18490 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
18491 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
18492 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
18493 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
18495 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
18496 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
18497 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
18498 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18499 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
18500 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
18501 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
18502 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18503 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
18504 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
18505 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
18506 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
18507 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
18508 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
18510 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18511 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
18512 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
18513 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
18514 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18515 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
18516 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
18517 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
18518 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
18520 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
18521 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
18522 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
18523 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
18524 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
18525 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
18526 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
18528 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
18529 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
18531 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
18532 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
18533 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
18534 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
18536 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
18537 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
18538 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
18539 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18540 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
18541 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
18542 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
18543 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
18544 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
18545 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
18546 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
18547 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
18548 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
18549 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
18550 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
18551 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
18552 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
18554 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
18555 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
18556 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
18557 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
18558 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
18559 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
18560 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
18561 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
18564 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
18565 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
18566 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
18567 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
18568 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
18569 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
18570 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18571 Reported by "mr-4".
18572 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
18573 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
18574 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
18575 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
18577 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
18578 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
18579 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
18580 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
18581 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
18582 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
18583 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
18584 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
18585 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
18586 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
18587 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
18588 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
18590 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
18591 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
18592 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
18594 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
18595 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
18596 early. Fixes bug 10081.
18598 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18599 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
18600 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
18601 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
18604 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
18605 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
18606 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
18607 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
18610 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
18611 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
18612 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
18613 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
18615 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
18616 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
18617 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
18619 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
18620 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
18621 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
18622 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
18623 versions. Found by "skruffy".
18624 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
18625 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
18626 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
18629 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
18630 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
18631 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18632 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
18633 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
18634 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
18635 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
18636 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
18637 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18638 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
18639 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
18641 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18642 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
18643 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
18644 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
18645 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
18647 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
18648 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
18649 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
18650 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
18653 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
18654 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
18655 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
18656 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
18657 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
18658 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
18659 should never have affected anyone in practice.
18661 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18662 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
18663 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
18664 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
18665 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
18666 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
18667 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
18668 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
18669 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
18670 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
18671 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
18672 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
18673 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
18674 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
18675 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
18676 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
18677 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
18678 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
18679 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
18680 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
18681 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
18682 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
18683 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
18684 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
18686 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
18687 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
18688 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
18689 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
18690 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
18691 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
18692 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
18693 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
18694 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
18696 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
18697 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
18700 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
18701 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
18703 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
18705 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
18706 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
18707 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
18708 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
18709 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
18710 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
18712 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
18713 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
18715 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
18716 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
18717 caches don't get confused.
18718 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
18719 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18720 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
18721 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
18722 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
18723 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
18724 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
18725 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
18726 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
18727 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
18728 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
18729 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
18730 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
18731 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
18732 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18733 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
18734 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
18735 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
18738 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
18739 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
18740 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
18741 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
18742 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
18744 o Removed code and features:
18745 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
18746 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
18747 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
18748 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
18749 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
18750 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
18752 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
18753 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
18754 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
18755 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
18756 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
18757 part of a fix for bug 10841.
18758 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
18759 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
18760 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
18761 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
18762 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
18763 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
18765 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
18766 Resolves ticket 11070.
18767 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
18768 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
18769 the rest of bug 10841.
18770 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
18771 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
18772 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
18773 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
18775 o Test infrastructure:
18776 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
18777 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
18778 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
18779 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
18780 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
18781 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
18782 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
18783 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
18784 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
18785 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
18787 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
18788 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
18789 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
18790 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
18791 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
18792 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
18793 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
18794 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
18795 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
18796 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
18797 invoking the other functions it calls.
18800 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
18801 Patch from Dana Koch.
18802 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
18803 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
18804 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
18805 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
18807 o Distribution (systemd):
18808 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
18809 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
18810 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
18811 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
18812 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
18813 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
18814 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
18815 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
18816 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
18817 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
18818 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
18819 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
18820 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
18824 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
18825 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
18826 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
18827 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
18828 (which does affect Tor).
18830 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
18831 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
18832 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
18833 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
18835 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
18836 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
18837 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
18838 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
18841 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
18842 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
18843 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
18844 the directory authorities.
18847 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
18848 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
18849 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
18850 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
18851 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
18852 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
18853 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
18854 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
18855 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
18856 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
18857 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
18858 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18860 o Directory authority changes:
18861 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
18863 o Minor features (geoip):
18864 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18868 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
18869 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
18870 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
18871 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
18874 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
18875 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
18876 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
18877 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
18878 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
18879 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
18880 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
18881 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
18882 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
18883 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
18886 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
18887 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
18888 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
18889 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
18890 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
18891 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
18892 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
18893 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
18897 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
18898 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
18899 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
18900 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
18901 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
18902 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
18903 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
18904 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
18905 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18906 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
18907 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
18908 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
18909 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
18912 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18916 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
18917 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
18918 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
18919 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
18920 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
18921 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
18922 of RAM, and several others.
18924 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18925 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
18926 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
18927 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
18928 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
18930 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
18931 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
18932 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
18933 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
18936 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18937 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
18938 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
18939 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
18940 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
18941 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
18942 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
18943 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
18944 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
18945 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
18946 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
18947 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
18948 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
18949 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
18950 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
18951 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
18952 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
18953 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
18954 Resolves ticket 11438.
18956 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
18957 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
18958 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
18959 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
18960 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
18961 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18963 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18964 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
18965 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
18967 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18968 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
18969 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18971 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18972 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
18973 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
18974 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18976 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18977 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
18978 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
18980 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18981 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
18982 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
18985 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
18986 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
18987 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
18988 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
18991 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18992 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
18993 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
18994 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
18996 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
18997 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
18998 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
18999 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
19001 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19002 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
19003 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
19007 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
19008 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
19009 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
19010 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
19012 o Major features (client security):
19013 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
19014 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
19015 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
19016 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
19017 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
19018 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
19021 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
19022 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
19023 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
19024 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19026 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19027 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
19028 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
19029 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
19030 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
19033 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
19034 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
19036 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
19037 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
19038 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
19039 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
19040 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
19041 GeoLite2 Country database.
19044 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
19045 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
19046 bugfix on every released Tor.
19047 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
19048 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
19049 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
19050 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19051 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
19052 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
19053 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
19054 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
19055 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
19056 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19057 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
19058 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
19059 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19060 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
19061 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19063 o Documentation fixes:
19064 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
19065 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19068 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
19069 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
19070 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
19071 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
19072 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
19073 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
19074 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
19076 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
19077 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
19080 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
19081 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
19082 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
19083 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
19084 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
19085 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
19086 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
19087 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
19089 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
19090 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19091 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
19092 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
19093 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
19094 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
19097 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
19098 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19099 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
19100 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
19101 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
19104 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
19105 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
19106 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
19107 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
19108 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
19109 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
19110 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
19111 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
19113 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
19114 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
19115 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
19116 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
19117 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
19118 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
19119 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
19120 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
19121 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
19122 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
19123 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
19124 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
19125 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
19126 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
19127 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
19128 security, and privacy fixes.
19130 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
19131 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
19132 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
19133 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
19134 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
19135 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
19136 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
19137 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
19138 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
19139 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
19140 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
19142 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
19143 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
19144 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
19146 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
19148 o Major features (better link encryption):
19149 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
19150 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
19151 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
19152 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
19153 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
19154 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
19157 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
19158 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
19159 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
19160 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
19162 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
19164 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
19165 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
19166 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
19167 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
19168 them to solve bug 6033.)
19170 o Major features (relay performance):
19171 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
19172 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
19173 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
19174 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
19175 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
19176 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
19177 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
19178 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
19179 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
19180 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
19181 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
19182 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
19183 Implements ticket 9574.
19185 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
19186 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
19187 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
19188 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
19189 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
19190 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
19191 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
19192 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
19193 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
19194 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
19195 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
19196 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
19197 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
19198 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
19199 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
19200 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
19202 o Major features (use of guards):
19203 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
19204 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
19205 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
19206 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
19207 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
19208 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
19209 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
19210 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
19211 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
19212 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
19213 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
19214 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
19215 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
19216 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19218 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
19219 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
19220 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
19221 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
19223 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
19224 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
19227 o Major features (geoip database):
19228 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
19229 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
19230 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
19231 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
19232 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
19233 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
19235 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
19237 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19239 o Major features (IPv6):
19240 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
19241 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
19242 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
19243 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
19244 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
19245 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
19246 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
19247 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
19248 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
19249 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
19250 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
19251 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
19252 revised in proposal 208.
19253 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
19254 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
19255 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
19257 o Major features (directory authorities):
19258 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
19259 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
19261 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
19262 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
19263 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
19264 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
19265 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
19266 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
19267 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
19268 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
19269 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
19270 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
19271 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
19273 o Major features (build and portability):
19274 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
19275 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
19276 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
19277 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
19278 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
19279 fixes by Jim Meyering.
19280 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
19281 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
19282 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
19283 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
19284 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
19285 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
19287 o Security features:
19288 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
19289 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
19290 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
19291 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
19292 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
19293 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
19294 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
19295 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
19296 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
19299 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
19300 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
19301 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
19302 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
19303 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
19304 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
19305 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
19306 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
19307 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
19308 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
19309 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
19310 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
19311 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
19312 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
19313 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
19314 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
19315 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
19316 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19318 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
19319 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
19320 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
19321 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
19323 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
19324 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
19325 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
19327 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
19328 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
19329 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19330 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
19331 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
19332 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19333 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
19334 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
19335 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
19337 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
19338 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19340 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
19341 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
19342 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
19343 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
19344 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
19345 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
19346 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
19347 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
19348 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
19349 last time we raised it).
19350 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
19351 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
19352 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
19354 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
19355 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
19356 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
19357 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
19358 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
19359 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
19360 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
19361 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19362 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
19363 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
19364 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
19365 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
19366 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19368 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
19369 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
19370 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
19371 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
19372 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
19373 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
19374 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
19375 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
19376 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19377 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
19378 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
19379 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
19380 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
19382 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
19383 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
19384 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
19385 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
19386 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
19387 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
19388 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
19389 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
19390 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19392 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
19393 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
19394 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
19395 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
19396 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
19397 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
19398 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
19399 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
19400 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
19401 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
19402 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
19403 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
19404 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
19405 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
19406 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
19407 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
19408 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
19411 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
19412 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
19413 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
19414 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19416 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
19417 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
19418 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
19419 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
19421 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
19422 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
19423 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
19424 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
19425 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
19426 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
19429 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
19430 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
19431 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
19432 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
19433 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
19434 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
19435 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19437 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
19438 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
19439 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
19440 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19442 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
19443 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
19444 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
19445 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
19446 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
19447 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
19448 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
19449 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
19451 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
19452 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
19453 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
19455 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
19456 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
19457 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19459 o Internal abstraction features:
19460 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
19461 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
19462 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
19463 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
19464 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
19465 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
19466 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
19467 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
19468 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
19469 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
19470 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
19471 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
19472 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
19473 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
19474 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
19475 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
19476 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
19478 o New build requirements:
19479 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
19480 strongly recommended.
19481 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
19482 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
19483 from a source distribution.)
19485 o Minor features (protocol):
19486 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
19487 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
19489 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
19490 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
19491 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
19492 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
19493 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
19494 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
19495 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
19496 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
19497 closes ticket 7199.
19498 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
19499 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
19501 o Minor features (security):
19502 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
19503 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
19504 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
19505 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
19506 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
19507 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
19508 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
19509 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
19510 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
19512 o Minor features (control protocol):
19513 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
19515 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
19516 Implements ticket 4971.
19517 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
19518 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
19519 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
19520 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
19521 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
19523 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
19524 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
19526 o Minor features (path selection):
19527 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
19528 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
19529 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
19530 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
19531 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
19532 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
19533 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
19534 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
19535 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
19536 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
19537 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
19538 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
19539 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
19540 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
19542 o Minor features (hidden services):
19543 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
19544 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
19545 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
19546 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
19547 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
19548 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
19549 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
19550 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
19551 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
19552 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
19553 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
19554 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
19555 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
19557 o Minor features (clients):
19558 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
19559 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
19560 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
19561 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
19562 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
19563 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
19564 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
19565 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
19566 the ORPort and the DirPort.
19568 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
19569 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
19570 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
19571 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
19572 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
19573 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
19574 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
19575 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
19576 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
19577 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
19578 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
19579 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
19580 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
19581 Implements part of proposal 222.
19583 o Minor features (bridges):
19584 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
19585 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
19586 bugs 1913 and 1992.
19587 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
19588 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
19589 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
19590 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
19591 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
19592 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
19593 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
19594 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
19595 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
19596 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
19597 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
19599 o Minor features (relays):
19600 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
19601 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
19603 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
19604 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
19605 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
19606 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
19607 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
19608 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
19609 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
19610 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
19611 connect to the wrong addresses.
19612 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
19613 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
19614 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
19615 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
19618 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
19619 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
19620 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
19621 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
19622 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
19623 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
19625 o Minor features (directory authorities):
19626 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
19627 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
19628 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
19630 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
19631 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
19632 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
19633 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
19634 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
19635 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
19637 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
19638 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
19639 Implements ticket 8151.
19640 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
19641 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
19642 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
19643 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
19645 o Minor features (path bias detection):
19646 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
19647 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
19648 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
19649 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
19650 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
19651 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
19652 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
19653 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
19654 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
19655 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
19656 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
19657 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
19658 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
19659 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
19660 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
19661 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
19662 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
19663 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
19664 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
19665 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
19666 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
19667 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
19668 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
19669 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
19670 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
19671 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
19672 detection capability loss.
19674 o Minor features (build):
19675 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
19676 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
19677 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
19679 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
19680 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
19681 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
19683 o Build improvements (autotools):
19684 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
19685 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
19686 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
19688 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
19689 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
19690 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
19691 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
19693 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
19694 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
19695 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
19696 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
19697 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
19698 than to perform erroneously.
19699 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
19701 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
19702 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
19703 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
19705 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
19706 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
19707 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
19708 hard-to-track-down errors.
19709 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
19710 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
19711 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
19712 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
19713 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
19714 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
19715 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
19716 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19717 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
19718 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
19719 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
19721 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
19722 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
19723 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
19724 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
19725 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
19726 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
19727 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
19728 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
19729 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
19730 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
19732 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
19733 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
19734 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
19735 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
19736 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
19737 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
19738 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
19739 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
19740 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
19741 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
19742 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
19743 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
19744 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
19746 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
19747 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
19748 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
19749 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
19750 or at least make it more diagnosable.
19751 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
19752 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
19753 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
19754 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
19756 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
19757 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
19758 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
19759 part of ticket 6736.
19760 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
19761 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
19762 Resolves ticket 6758.
19763 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
19764 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
19765 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
19766 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19767 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
19768 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
19769 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
19771 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
19772 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
19773 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
19774 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19776 o Minor features (testing):
19777 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
19778 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
19780 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
19781 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
19782 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
19785 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
19786 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
19788 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
19789 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
19790 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
19791 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
19792 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
19793 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
19794 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
19795 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
19796 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
19797 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
19798 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
19799 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
19800 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
19801 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
19802 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
19803 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
19804 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
19806 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
19807 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
19808 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
19809 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
19810 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
19811 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
19812 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
19813 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
19814 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
19815 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
19816 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
19817 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
19818 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
19819 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
19820 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
19821 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
19822 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
19823 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19824 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
19825 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
19828 o Minor fixes (config options):
19829 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
19830 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
19831 or we just won't work.)
19832 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
19833 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
19834 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19835 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
19836 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
19837 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
19838 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
19839 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19840 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
19841 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
19842 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
19843 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19844 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
19845 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
19846 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
19847 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
19848 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
19849 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
19850 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
19852 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
19853 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
19854 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
19856 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
19857 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
19858 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
19859 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
19861 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
19862 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
19863 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
19864 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
19865 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
19866 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
19867 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
19868 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
19869 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
19870 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
19871 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19872 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
19873 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
19874 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
19875 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
19876 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
19879 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
19880 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
19881 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
19882 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
19883 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
19884 Should help resolve bug 8235.
19885 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
19886 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
19887 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
19888 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19889 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
19890 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
19891 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
19892 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
19893 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
19894 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
19895 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19897 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19898 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
19899 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
19900 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
19901 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
19902 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
19903 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
19904 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
19906 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
19907 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
19908 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
19909 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
19911 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
19912 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
19913 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
19914 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
19915 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
19917 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
19918 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
19919 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
19920 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19921 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
19922 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19924 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
19925 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
19926 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
19927 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
19928 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
19929 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
19930 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
19931 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
19932 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
19934 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19935 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
19936 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
19937 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
19938 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19939 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
19940 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
19941 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
19942 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
19943 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
19944 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
19945 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
19947 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
19948 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
19949 this is CID 718634.
19950 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
19951 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
19952 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
19953 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
19955 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
19956 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
19958 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
19959 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
19960 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
19961 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
19962 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
19963 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
19964 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
19965 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19966 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
19967 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
19968 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
19969 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19970 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
19971 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
19972 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19973 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
19974 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
19975 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
19977 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
19978 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
19979 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
19980 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
19981 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19982 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
19983 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
19984 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
19985 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
19986 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19987 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
19988 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
19989 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
19992 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
19993 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
19994 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
19995 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
19996 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
19998 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
19999 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20000 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
20001 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
20002 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
20003 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20004 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
20005 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
20006 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
20009 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20010 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
20011 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20012 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20014 o Documentation fixes:
20015 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
20016 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
20017 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
20018 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
20019 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
20020 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
20021 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
20023 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
20024 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
20025 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
20026 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
20027 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
20028 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
20029 message is logged at notice, not at info.
20030 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
20031 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
20032 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
20033 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
20034 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
20035 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
20037 o Removed features:
20038 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
20039 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
20040 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
20042 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
20043 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
20044 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
20045 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
20046 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
20047 compatibility code.
20050 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
20051 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
20053 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
20054 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
20056 o Code simplification:
20057 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
20058 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
20059 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
20060 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
20062 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
20063 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
20065 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
20066 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
20067 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
20068 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
20069 present the same extensions.)
20070 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
20072 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
20073 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
20074 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
20075 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
20077 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
20078 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
20079 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
20080 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
20083 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
20085 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
20086 and the different handshakes it supports.
20087 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
20088 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
20089 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
20090 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
20092 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
20093 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
20094 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
20095 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
20096 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
20097 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
20098 testable, and a little less fragile too.
20099 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
20100 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
20101 Implements ticket 5529.
20102 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
20103 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
20104 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
20107 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
20108 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
20109 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
20110 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
20111 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
20112 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20113 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
20114 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
20115 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
20116 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
20117 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
20118 any encoding is overkill.
20119 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
20120 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
20121 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
20122 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
20123 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
20124 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
20125 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
20126 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
20127 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
20130 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
20131 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
20132 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
20133 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
20134 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
20135 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
20136 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
20137 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
20139 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
20140 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
20141 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
20142 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
20143 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
20144 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
20145 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
20146 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
20147 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
20148 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
20149 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
20151 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
20152 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
20153 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
20154 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
20155 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
20156 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
20157 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
20158 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
20159 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
20160 describes microdescriptors.
20162 o Major features (build hardening):
20163 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
20165 o Major features (relay scaling):
20166 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
20167 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
20168 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
20169 much faster than other AES implementations.
20170 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
20171 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
20172 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
20173 Resolves ticket 4526.
20174 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
20175 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
20177 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
20178 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
20179 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
20180 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
20182 o Major features (blocking resistance):
20183 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
20185 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
20186 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
20187 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
20188 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
20189 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
20190 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
20191 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
20192 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
20193 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
20194 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
20195 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
20196 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
20197 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
20198 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
20199 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
20200 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
20201 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
20202 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
20203 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
20205 o Major features (pluggable transports):
20206 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
20207 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
20208 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
20209 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
20211 o Major features (DoS resistance):
20212 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
20213 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
20214 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
20215 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
20216 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
20217 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
20218 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
20219 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
20220 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
20221 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
20222 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
20224 o Major features (hidden services):
20225 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
20226 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
20227 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
20229 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
20230 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
20231 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
20232 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
20233 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
20234 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
20236 o Major features (IPv6):
20237 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
20238 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
20239 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
20240 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
20241 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
20243 o Major features (directory authorities):
20244 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
20245 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
20246 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
20247 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
20248 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
20249 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
20250 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
20251 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
20252 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
20253 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
20255 o Major features (performance):
20256 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
20257 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
20258 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
20259 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
20260 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
20261 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
20262 side of Proposal 174.
20263 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
20264 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
20265 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
20266 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
20267 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
20268 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
20269 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
20270 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
20271 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
20272 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
20273 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
20274 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
20276 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
20277 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
20278 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
20279 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
20280 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
20283 o Major features (relays):
20284 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
20285 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
20286 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
20287 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
20288 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
20289 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
20290 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
20292 o Major features (stream isolation):
20293 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
20294 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
20295 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
20296 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
20297 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
20298 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
20299 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
20300 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
20301 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
20302 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
20303 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
20304 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
20305 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
20306 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
20308 o Major features (bufferevents):
20309 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
20310 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
20311 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
20312 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
20313 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
20314 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
20315 zero-copy transports where available.
20316 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
20317 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
20318 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
20319 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
20320 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
20321 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
20323 o Major features (path selection):
20324 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
20325 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
20326 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
20327 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
20330 o Major features (port forwarding):
20331 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
20332 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
20333 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
20334 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
20335 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
20336 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
20338 o Major features (logging):
20339 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
20340 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
20341 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
20342 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
20343 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
20344 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
20345 Implements enhancement 1668.
20347 o Major features (other):
20348 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
20349 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
20350 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
20351 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
20352 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
20353 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
20354 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
20355 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
20356 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
20357 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
20358 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
20359 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
20360 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
20361 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
20362 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
20363 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
20364 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
20365 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
20366 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
20367 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
20369 o New directory authorities:
20370 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
20371 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
20373 o Security/privacy fixes:
20374 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
20375 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
20376 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20377 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
20378 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
20379 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
20380 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
20381 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
20382 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
20383 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
20384 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
20385 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
20386 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
20387 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
20388 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
20389 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
20390 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
20391 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
20392 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
20393 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
20394 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
20395 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
20396 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
20397 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
20398 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
20399 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
20400 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
20401 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
20402 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
20403 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
20404 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
20406 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
20407 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
20408 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
20409 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
20410 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
20411 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
20412 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
20413 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20414 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
20415 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
20416 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
20417 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
20418 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
20419 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
20422 o Major bugfixes (clients):
20423 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
20424 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
20425 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
20426 which introduced predicted ports.
20427 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
20428 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
20429 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
20430 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
20431 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
20432 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
20433 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20434 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
20435 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
20437 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
20438 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
20439 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
20440 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
20441 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
20442 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
20444 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
20445 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
20446 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
20447 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
20448 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
20449 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
20450 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
20451 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
20452 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
20453 documents entirely.
20455 o Major bugfixes (relays):
20456 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
20457 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
20458 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
20459 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
20460 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
20461 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
20462 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
20463 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
20464 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
20465 immensely in tracking this bug down.
20466 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
20467 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
20468 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
20469 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
20470 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
20471 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
20472 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20474 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
20475 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
20476 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
20477 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
20478 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
20479 cells were introduced.
20480 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
20481 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
20482 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
20483 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
20485 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20486 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
20487 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
20488 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
20489 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
20490 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
20491 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
20492 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
20493 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
20494 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
20495 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
20496 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
20497 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
20498 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
20499 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
20500 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
20501 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
20502 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
20503 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
20504 Fixes part of bug 3825.
20506 o Changes to default torrc file:
20507 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
20508 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
20510 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
20511 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
20512 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
20514 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
20515 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
20516 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
20518 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20519 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
20520 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
20521 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
20522 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
20523 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
20524 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
20525 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
20526 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
20527 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
20528 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
20529 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
20530 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
20531 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
20532 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
20533 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
20536 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
20537 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
20538 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
20539 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
20540 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
20541 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
20542 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
20543 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
20544 sure. Closes bug 5139.
20545 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
20546 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
20547 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
20548 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
20549 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
20551 o Minor features (IPv6):
20552 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
20553 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
20554 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
20555 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
20556 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
20557 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
20559 o Minor features (hidden services):
20560 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
20561 Required by fix for bug 3460.
20562 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
20563 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
20564 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
20565 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
20566 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
20567 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
20568 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
20569 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
20570 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
20572 o Minor features (relays):
20573 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
20574 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
20575 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
20576 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
20577 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
20578 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
20579 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
20580 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
20581 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
20582 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
20583 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
20586 o Minor features (new config options):
20587 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
20588 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
20589 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
20590 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
20591 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
20592 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
20593 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
20594 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
20595 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
20596 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
20597 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
20598 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
20600 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
20601 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
20602 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
20603 Implements issue 933.
20604 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
20605 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
20606 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
20607 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
20608 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
20609 implements ticket 3439.
20610 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
20611 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
20612 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
20613 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
20614 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
20615 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
20616 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
20617 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
20619 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
20620 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
20621 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
20622 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
20623 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
20624 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
20625 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
20626 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
20627 appending to the list.
20628 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
20629 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
20630 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
20631 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
20634 o Minor features (controller, new events):
20635 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
20636 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
20637 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
20638 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
20639 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
20640 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
20642 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
20643 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
20644 circuit-status' control-port command.
20645 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
20646 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
20647 user. Implements ticket 1692.
20648 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
20649 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
20650 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
20652 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
20653 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
20654 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
20655 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
20656 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
20657 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
20658 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
20659 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
20660 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
20662 o Minor features (controller, other):
20663 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
20664 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
20665 part of ticket 3457.
20666 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
20667 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
20668 file. Resolves bug 1101.
20669 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
20670 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
20672 o Minor features (log messages):
20673 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
20674 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
20675 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
20676 please let us know about it.
20677 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
20678 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
20679 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
20680 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
20681 Resolves ticket 2474.
20682 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
20683 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
20685 o Minor features (other):
20686 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
20687 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
20688 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
20689 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
20691 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
20692 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
20693 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
20694 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
20695 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
20696 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
20697 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
20699 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
20700 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
20701 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
20702 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
20703 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
20705 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
20706 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
20707 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
20708 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
20709 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
20710 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
20711 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
20712 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
20713 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20714 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
20715 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
20716 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
20717 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
20718 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
20719 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
20720 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
20723 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
20724 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
20725 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
20726 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
20727 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
20728 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
20729 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
20730 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
20731 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
20733 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
20734 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
20735 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
20736 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
20737 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
20738 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
20739 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20740 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
20741 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
20742 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20744 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20745 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
20746 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20747 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
20748 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
20749 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
20750 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
20751 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
20752 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
20754 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
20755 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
20756 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
20757 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
20758 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
20759 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
20760 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
20761 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
20762 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
20764 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
20765 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
20766 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
20767 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
20768 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
20769 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
20770 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
20772 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
20773 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
20774 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
20775 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
20777 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20778 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
20779 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
20780 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20781 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
20782 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
20783 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
20784 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
20785 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
20786 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
20787 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
20788 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
20791 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
20792 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
20793 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20794 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
20795 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
20796 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
20798 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
20799 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
20800 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20801 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
20802 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
20803 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
20804 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20805 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
20806 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
20807 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
20808 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
20809 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
20810 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
20811 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
20812 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
20814 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
20815 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
20816 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
20817 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
20818 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
20819 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
20821 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
20822 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
20823 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
20824 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
20825 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
20826 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
20827 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
20828 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
20829 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
20830 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
20831 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
20832 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
20833 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
20834 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
20835 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20837 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
20838 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
20839 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
20840 be disabled using the new
20841 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
20842 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20843 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
20844 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
20845 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
20846 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
20847 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
20849 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
20850 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
20851 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
20852 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20853 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
20854 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
20855 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
20857 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
20858 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
20859 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
20860 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
20861 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20862 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
20863 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
20864 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
20866 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
20867 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
20868 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
20869 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20870 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
20871 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
20872 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
20873 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20875 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20876 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
20877 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
20878 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
20879 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
20880 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
20881 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
20882 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
20884 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
20885 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
20886 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
20887 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
20889 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
20890 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
20891 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
20893 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
20894 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
20896 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
20897 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
20898 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
20899 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
20900 case for flushing marked connections.
20901 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
20902 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
20903 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
20904 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
20905 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
20906 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
20907 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
20908 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
20909 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
20910 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
20912 o Minor bugfixes (other):
20913 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
20914 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
20915 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
20916 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
20917 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
20918 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
20919 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
20920 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
20921 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
20922 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
20924 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
20925 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
20926 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
20927 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
20928 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20930 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
20931 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
20932 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
20933 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
20934 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20935 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
20936 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
20937 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
20938 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
20939 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
20940 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
20941 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
20942 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
20943 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
20944 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
20945 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
20947 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
20948 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
20949 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
20950 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
20951 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
20952 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
20953 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20954 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
20955 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20956 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
20957 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
20958 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
20959 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
20960 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
20961 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
20962 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
20963 Implements ticket 3264.
20964 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
20966 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
20967 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
20968 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
20969 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
20970 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
20971 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
20973 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
20974 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
20975 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
20976 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
20977 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
20978 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20979 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
20980 them from the other auths.
20981 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
20982 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
20983 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
20984 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20985 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
20986 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
20987 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
20988 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
20992 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
20993 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
20994 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
20996 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
20997 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
20998 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
20999 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
21000 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
21001 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
21002 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
21003 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
21005 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
21006 ./src/test/bench binary.
21007 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
21008 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
21009 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
21010 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
21013 o Build improvements:
21014 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
21015 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
21016 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
21017 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
21018 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
21019 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
21020 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
21021 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21022 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
21023 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
21024 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
21025 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
21026 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
21027 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
21028 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
21029 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
21030 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
21031 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
21032 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
21033 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
21034 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
21036 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
21038 o Build requirements:
21039 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
21040 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
21041 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
21042 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
21043 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
21044 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
21045 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
21046 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
21047 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
21048 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
21049 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
21050 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
21051 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
21053 o Build fixes (compile/link):
21054 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
21055 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
21057 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
21058 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
21059 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
21060 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
21061 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
21062 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
21063 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21064 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
21065 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21067 o Build fixes (other):
21068 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
21069 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
21071 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
21072 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
21073 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
21074 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21075 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
21076 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
21077 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
21078 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
21080 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
21081 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
21084 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
21085 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
21086 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
21087 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
21088 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
21089 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
21090 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
21091 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
21093 o Code refactoring (safety):
21094 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
21095 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
21096 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
21097 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
21098 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
21099 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
21100 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
21101 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
21102 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
21103 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
21104 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
21105 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
21107 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
21108 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
21109 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
21110 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
21111 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
21112 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
21113 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
21114 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
21115 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
21116 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
21117 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
21118 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
21119 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
21120 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
21121 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
21122 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
21123 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
21124 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
21126 o Code refactoring (separate):
21127 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
21128 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
21129 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
21131 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
21132 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
21135 o Code refactoring (name changes):
21136 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
21137 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
21138 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
21139 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
21140 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
21141 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
21142 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
21144 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
21145 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
21146 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
21147 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
21148 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
21149 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
21150 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
21151 invalid value, rather than just -1.
21152 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
21153 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
21154 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
21156 o Code refactoring (other):
21157 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
21158 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
21160 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
21161 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
21162 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
21163 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
21164 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
21165 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
21166 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
21167 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
21168 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
21169 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
21170 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
21171 our library structure used to force them to link it.
21173 o Removed features and files:
21174 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
21175 it would be a bad idea to start.
21176 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
21178 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
21179 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
21180 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
21181 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
21182 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
21183 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
21184 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
21185 are no longer in use as relays.
21186 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
21187 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
21188 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
21189 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
21190 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
21191 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
21195 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
21196 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
21197 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
21199 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
21200 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
21202 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
21203 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
21204 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
21206 o Documentation fixes:
21207 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
21208 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
21209 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
21210 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
21211 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
21212 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
21213 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
21214 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
21217 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
21218 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
21222 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
21223 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
21224 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21225 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
21226 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
21227 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
21228 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
21232 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
21233 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
21234 attack that could in theory leak path information.
21237 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
21238 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
21239 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21240 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
21241 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
21242 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
21243 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
21244 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
21245 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
21246 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
21247 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
21248 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
21249 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
21250 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21253 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
21254 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
21255 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
21259 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
21260 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
21261 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
21262 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
21263 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
21264 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
21265 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21266 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
21267 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
21268 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
21269 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21272 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
21273 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
21276 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
21277 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
21280 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
21281 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
21282 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
21283 and fixes several crash bugs.
21285 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
21286 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
21287 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
21288 those packages and upgrade anyway.
21290 o Directory authority changes:
21291 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
21292 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
21296 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
21297 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
21298 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
21299 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
21300 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
21301 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
21302 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
21303 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
21304 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
21305 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
21306 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
21307 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
21308 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
21309 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
21310 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
21311 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
21312 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
21313 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
21314 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
21315 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
21316 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
21317 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
21318 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
21319 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
21320 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
21321 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
21322 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
21325 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
21326 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21327 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
21328 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
21330 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
21331 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
21333 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
21334 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
21335 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
21336 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
21337 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
21338 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
21339 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
21340 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
21343 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
21344 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
21345 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
21346 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
21347 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
21348 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
21349 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
21350 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
21351 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
21352 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
21353 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
21354 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
21355 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
21356 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
21357 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
21358 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
21359 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
21360 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
21361 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
21362 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
21363 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
21364 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
21365 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
21366 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
21367 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
21368 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
21369 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
21370 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
21371 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
21372 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
21373 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
21374 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
21375 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21376 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
21377 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21378 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
21379 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
21380 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
21381 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
21382 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21383 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
21384 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21385 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
21386 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
21387 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
21388 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21390 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
21391 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
21392 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
21393 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
21394 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
21395 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
21396 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
21397 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
21398 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
21399 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
21400 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21401 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
21402 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21403 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
21404 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
21407 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
21408 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
21409 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
21410 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
21412 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21415 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
21416 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
21417 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
21418 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
21419 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
21420 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
21421 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
21424 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
21425 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
21426 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
21428 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
21429 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
21430 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
21431 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
21432 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
21433 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
21434 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
21435 (which Tor does not do by default).
21437 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
21438 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
21439 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
21440 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
21441 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
21443 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
21444 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
21445 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
21448 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
21449 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
21450 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
21451 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
21452 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
21454 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
21455 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
21458 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
21459 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
21460 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
21461 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
21462 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
21463 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
21464 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
21465 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
21467 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
21468 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
21469 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
21470 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
21471 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
21472 close based on processing a cell on it.
21473 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
21474 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
21475 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
21476 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21477 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
21478 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
21479 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21480 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
21481 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
21482 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
21483 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
21484 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
21485 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
21486 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
21487 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
21490 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
21491 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
21492 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
21493 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
21494 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
21495 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
21496 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
21498 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
21499 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
21500 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
21501 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
21502 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
21503 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21504 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
21505 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
21506 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21507 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
21508 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
21509 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
21510 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
21511 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21512 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
21513 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
21514 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
21515 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
21516 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21517 Reported by "troll_un".
21518 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
21519 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21520 Reported by "troll_un".
21521 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
21522 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
21523 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
21524 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
21527 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
21528 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
21529 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
21530 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
21531 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
21532 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
21533 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
21534 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
21535 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
21536 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
21537 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21539 o Packaging changes:
21540 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
21541 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
21544 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
21545 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
21546 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
21547 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
21548 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
21550 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
21551 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
21553 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
21554 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
21555 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
21556 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
21557 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21558 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
21559 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
21560 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
21561 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
21564 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21567 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
21568 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
21569 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
21571 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
21572 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
21573 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
21574 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
21575 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
21576 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
21577 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
21578 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
21579 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
21580 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
21581 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
21582 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
21583 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
21585 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
21586 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
21587 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
21588 currently connected to them.
21590 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
21591 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
21592 remain; see for example proposal 188.
21594 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
21595 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
21596 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
21597 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
21598 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
21599 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
21600 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
21601 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
21602 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
21603 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
21604 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
21605 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
21606 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
21607 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
21608 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
21609 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
21610 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
21611 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
21614 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
21615 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
21616 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
21617 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
21618 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
21619 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
21620 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
21621 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
21622 when bridges were introduced.
21623 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
21624 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
21625 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
21626 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21627 Found by "frosty_un".
21630 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
21631 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
21633 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
21634 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
21635 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
21636 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
21637 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
21638 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
21639 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
21642 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
21643 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
21644 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
21645 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
21646 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
21647 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
21648 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
21649 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
21650 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
21651 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
21652 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
21653 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
21654 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
21655 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
21656 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
21657 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
21658 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
21659 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
21661 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
21662 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
21663 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
21664 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21665 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
21666 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
21667 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
21668 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
21669 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
21670 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
21671 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
21672 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21675 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
21676 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
21677 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
21678 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21681 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
21682 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
21683 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
21684 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
21685 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
21687 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
21688 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
21689 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
21690 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
21691 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
21692 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
21693 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
21694 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
21695 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
21696 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21698 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
21699 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
21700 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
21701 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
21702 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
21703 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
21704 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
21705 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
21706 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
21707 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
21708 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
21709 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
21710 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
21711 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
21712 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21713 Found by "frosty_un".
21714 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
21715 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
21716 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
21717 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
21718 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
21719 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
21720 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
21721 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
21722 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
21723 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
21724 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
21725 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
21726 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21727 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
21728 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
21729 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
21730 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
21731 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
21732 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
21734 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
21735 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
21736 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
21737 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
21738 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
21739 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
21740 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
21741 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
21743 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
21744 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
21745 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
21746 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
21747 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
21748 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
21749 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
21750 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
21751 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
21752 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
21753 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
21754 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
21756 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
21757 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21758 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
21759 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21760 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
21761 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21762 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
21763 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
21764 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
21766 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
21768 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
21769 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
21770 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
21771 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21772 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
21773 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
21774 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
21775 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21777 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
21778 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
21779 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
21780 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
21781 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
21783 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
21784 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
21785 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
21786 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
21787 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21790 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
21791 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
21792 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
21793 reachable from Iran again.
21796 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
21797 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
21798 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21800 o Minor features (security):
21801 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
21802 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
21803 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
21804 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
21805 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
21806 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
21807 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
21808 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
21809 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
21810 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
21813 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
21814 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
21815 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
21816 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
21817 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
21818 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
21819 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
21820 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
21821 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21823 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
21824 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
21825 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
21826 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
21827 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
21828 raised by bug 3898.
21829 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
21830 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
21831 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
21832 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
21833 fixes part of bug 2442.
21834 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
21835 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
21836 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
21838 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
21839 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
21840 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
21841 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
21842 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21845 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
21846 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21847 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
21848 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
21849 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
21850 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
21853 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
21854 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
21855 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
21856 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
21857 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
21858 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
21859 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
21860 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
21861 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
21862 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
21864 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
21865 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
21866 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
21867 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
21868 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
21869 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
21870 many many other features and bugfixes.
21872 o Major features (client performance):
21873 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
21874 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
21875 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
21876 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
21877 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
21878 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
21880 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
21881 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
21882 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
21883 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
21884 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
21885 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
21886 the first implementation of this feature.
21888 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
21889 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
21890 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
21891 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
21892 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
21893 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
21894 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
21895 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
21896 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
21897 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
21898 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
21899 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
21900 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
21901 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
21902 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
21903 file. Implements ticket 1296.
21905 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
21906 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
21907 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
21908 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
21909 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
21910 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
21911 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
21912 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
21913 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
21914 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
21915 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
21916 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
21917 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
21918 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
21919 they first get the Guard flag.
21920 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
21921 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
21922 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
21923 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
21924 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
21925 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
21926 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
21927 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
21929 o Major features (relays control their load better):
21930 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
21931 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
21932 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
21933 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
21934 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
21935 based on a variant of proposal 163.
21936 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
21937 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
21938 but never per-conn write limits.
21939 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
21940 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
21941 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
21942 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
21944 o Major features (controllers):
21945 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
21946 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
21947 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
21948 contributions to the network.
21949 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
21950 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
21951 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
21953 o Major features (directory authorities):
21954 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
21955 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
21956 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
21958 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
21959 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
21960 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
21961 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
21962 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
21963 download consensus + microdescriptors".
21964 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
21965 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
21966 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
21967 hash algorithm in the future.
21968 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
21969 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
21970 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
21972 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
21973 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
21974 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
21975 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
21976 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
21977 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
21978 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
21979 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
21980 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
21981 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
21982 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
21983 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
21984 connections to directory servers.
21985 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
21986 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
21987 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
21988 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
21989 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
21990 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
21991 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
21992 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
21993 information, or fetch directory information.
21994 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
21995 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
21996 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
21997 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
21998 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
22000 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
22001 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
22002 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
22003 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
22004 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
22005 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
22006 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
22007 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
22008 the network changes.
22009 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
22010 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
22012 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
22013 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
22014 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
22015 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
22016 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
22017 unless you really want your Tor to break.
22018 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
22019 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
22020 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
22021 - When StrictNodes is 1:
22022 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
22023 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
22024 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
22025 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
22026 reachability self-tests.
22027 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
22028 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
22029 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
22030 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
22031 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
22033 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
22034 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22035 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
22037 o Major features (misc):
22038 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
22039 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
22040 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
22041 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
22042 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
22043 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
22044 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
22045 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
22046 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
22047 part of ticket 3076.
22048 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
22049 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
22050 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
22052 o Code security improvements:
22053 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
22054 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
22055 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
22056 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
22057 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
22058 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
22059 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
22060 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
22061 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
22062 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
22063 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
22064 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
22065 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
22066 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
22067 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
22068 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
22069 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
22070 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
22071 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
22072 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
22073 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
22074 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
22075 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
22076 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
22077 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
22078 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
22079 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
22080 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
22082 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22083 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
22084 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
22085 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
22086 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
22087 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
22088 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
22089 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
22090 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
22091 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
22092 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
22093 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
22094 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
22096 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
22097 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
22098 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
22100 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
22101 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
22103 o Major bugfixes (stability):
22104 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
22105 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
22106 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22107 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
22108 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22109 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
22110 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
22111 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
22112 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
22113 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
22114 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
22115 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
22116 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
22117 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
22118 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
22119 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
22121 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
22122 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
22123 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
22125 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
22126 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
22127 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
22128 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
22129 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
22130 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
22131 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
22132 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
22133 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
22134 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
22135 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
22136 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
22137 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
22138 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
22139 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
22140 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
22141 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
22142 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
22143 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22145 o Privacy fixes (clients):
22146 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
22147 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
22148 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
22149 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
22150 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
22151 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
22152 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
22153 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
22154 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
22156 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
22157 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
22158 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
22159 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
22160 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
22161 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
22162 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
22163 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
22164 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
22165 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
22167 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
22168 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
22169 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
22170 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22171 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
22172 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
22173 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22174 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
22175 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
22176 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
22177 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
22178 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
22179 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
22181 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
22182 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
22183 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
22184 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
22185 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
22186 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
22187 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
22188 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
22189 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
22190 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
22192 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
22193 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
22194 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
22195 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
22196 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
22197 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
22198 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
22200 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
22201 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
22202 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
22203 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
22204 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
22205 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
22206 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
22207 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
22208 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
22209 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
22210 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
22211 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
22212 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
22213 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
22214 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
22216 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22217 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
22218 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
22219 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
22220 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
22221 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
22222 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
22224 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
22225 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
22226 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
22227 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
22228 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
22229 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
22230 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
22231 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
22233 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
22234 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
22235 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
22236 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
22237 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
22238 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
22239 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
22240 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
22241 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
22242 the longest-lived bug prize.
22243 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
22244 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
22245 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
22246 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
22247 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
22248 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
22249 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
22250 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
22251 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
22252 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
22254 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
22255 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
22256 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
22257 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
22258 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
22259 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
22262 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22263 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
22264 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
22265 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
22266 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
22267 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
22268 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
22269 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
22270 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
22271 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
22272 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
22273 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22274 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
22275 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
22276 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
22277 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
22278 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
22279 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
22280 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
22281 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
22282 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
22283 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
22284 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
22285 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
22286 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
22287 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
22289 o Major bugfixes (misc):
22290 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
22291 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
22292 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22293 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
22294 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
22295 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
22296 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
22297 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
22299 o Minor features (relays):
22300 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
22301 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
22302 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
22303 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
22304 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
22305 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
22306 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
22307 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
22309 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
22310 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
22311 Resolves ticket 3252.
22312 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
22313 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
22315 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
22316 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
22317 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
22318 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
22319 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
22321 o Minor features (network statistics):
22322 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
22323 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
22324 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
22325 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
22326 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
22327 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
22328 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
22329 measure download times.
22330 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
22331 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
22333 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
22334 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
22335 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
22336 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
22338 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
22339 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
22340 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
22342 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
22343 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
22344 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
22345 Implements ticket 2432.
22346 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
22347 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
22348 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
22349 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
22350 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
22351 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
22352 Implements enhancement 1790.
22353 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
22354 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
22356 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
22357 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
22358 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
22359 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
22360 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
22361 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
22362 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
22364 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22366 o Minor features (clients):
22367 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
22368 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
22369 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
22370 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
22372 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
22373 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
22374 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
22375 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
22376 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
22377 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
22378 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
22379 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
22381 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
22382 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
22383 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
22384 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
22385 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
22386 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
22387 SSL handshake issues.
22389 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22390 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
22391 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
22392 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
22393 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
22394 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
22395 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
22396 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
22397 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
22398 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
22399 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
22400 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
22401 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
22402 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
22403 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
22404 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
22405 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
22406 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
22407 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
22408 hour of their uptime.
22409 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
22410 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
22411 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
22412 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
22414 o Minor features (hidden services):
22415 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
22416 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
22417 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
22418 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
22419 Required by fix for bug 3000.
22420 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
22421 by fix for bug 3000.
22422 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
22423 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
22424 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
22425 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
22426 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
22428 o Minor features (controller interface):
22429 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
22430 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
22431 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
22432 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
22433 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
22434 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
22435 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
22436 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
22437 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
22438 over our stored history.
22439 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
22440 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
22441 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
22443 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
22444 to the circuit build timeout.
22445 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
22446 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
22447 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
22449 o Minor features (controller protocol):
22450 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
22451 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
22452 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
22454 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
22455 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
22456 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
22457 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
22458 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
22459 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
22460 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
22461 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
22462 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
22463 arguments we do not recognize.
22465 o Minor features (more useful logging):
22466 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
22467 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
22468 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
22469 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
22470 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
22471 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
22472 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
22473 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
22474 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
22475 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
22476 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
22477 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
22478 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
22479 got suppressed since the last warning.
22480 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
22481 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
22482 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
22483 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
22484 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
22485 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
22486 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
22488 o Minor features (log domains):
22489 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
22490 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
22491 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
22493 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
22494 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
22496 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
22497 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
22498 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
22500 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
22501 during the TLS handshake.
22503 o Minor features (build process):
22504 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
22505 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
22506 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
22508 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
22509 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
22510 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
22512 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
22513 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
22514 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
22515 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
22516 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
22517 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
22519 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
22520 source files Tor was built with.
22521 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
22522 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
22523 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
22524 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
22525 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
22526 speeds up the build considerably.
22528 o Minor features (options / torrc):
22529 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
22530 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
22531 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
22532 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
22533 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
22534 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
22535 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
22536 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
22537 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
22538 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
22539 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
22540 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
22541 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
22542 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
22543 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
22544 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
22545 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
22546 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
22547 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
22548 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
22549 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
22550 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
22551 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
22552 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
22553 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
22554 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
22555 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
22557 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
22558 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
22559 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
22562 o Minor features (unit tests):
22563 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
22564 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
22565 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
22566 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
22567 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
22568 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
22570 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
22571 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
22574 o Minor features (misc):
22575 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
22576 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
22577 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
22578 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
22580 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
22581 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
22582 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
22583 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
22584 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
22586 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
22587 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
22588 open() without checking it.
22589 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
22590 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
22591 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
22592 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
22594 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22595 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
22596 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
22597 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
22598 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
22599 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
22600 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
22601 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
22602 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
22603 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
22604 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
22605 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
22606 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
22607 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
22608 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
22609 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
22610 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
22611 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
22612 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
22613 based on the time during which we were active and not in
22614 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
22615 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
22616 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
22617 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
22618 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
22619 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
22620 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
22621 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
22623 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
22624 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
22625 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
22626 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
22628 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
22629 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
22630 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
22631 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
22632 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
22634 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
22635 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
22636 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22637 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
22638 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
22639 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
22640 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
22641 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
22642 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
22643 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
22644 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
22645 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
22646 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
22648 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22649 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
22650 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
22651 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
22652 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
22653 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
22654 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
22655 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
22656 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
22657 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
22658 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
22659 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
22660 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
22661 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
22662 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
22663 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
22664 two-hop circuits are actually created.
22665 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
22666 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
22667 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
22668 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
22670 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
22671 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
22672 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
22673 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
22674 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
22675 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
22676 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
22677 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
22678 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
22680 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
22681 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
22682 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
22683 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
22684 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
22685 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
22686 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
22687 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
22688 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
22689 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
22690 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
22691 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
22692 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
22695 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22696 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
22697 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
22698 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
22699 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22700 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
22701 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
22702 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
22703 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
22704 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
22705 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
22707 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
22708 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
22710 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
22711 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
22712 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
22713 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
22714 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22715 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
22716 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
22717 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
22719 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
22720 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
22721 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
22722 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22723 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
22724 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
22725 discovered by katmagic.
22726 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
22727 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
22729 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
22730 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
22731 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
22732 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
22733 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
22734 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
22735 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
22736 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
22737 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
22739 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
22740 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
22742 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
22743 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
22745 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
22746 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
22748 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
22749 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
22750 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
22751 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
22752 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
22753 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
22754 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
22755 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
22756 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
22757 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
22758 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
22759 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
22760 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
22761 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
22762 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
22764 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
22765 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
22766 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
22767 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
22768 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
22769 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
22770 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
22771 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
22772 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
22774 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
22775 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
22776 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
22778 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
22779 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
22780 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
22781 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
22783 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
22784 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
22785 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
22786 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
22787 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22788 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
22789 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
22791 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
22792 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
22793 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
22794 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
22795 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
22796 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
22798 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
22799 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
22800 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
22801 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
22802 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
22803 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
22804 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
22805 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22806 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
22808 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
22809 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
22810 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22811 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
22812 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22813 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
22814 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
22815 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
22816 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
22817 control-spec.txt said they were.
22819 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
22820 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
22821 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
22823 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
22824 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22825 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
22826 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
22827 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
22829 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
22830 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
22832 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
22833 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
22834 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
22835 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
22836 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
22837 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
22838 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
22840 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
22841 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
22842 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
22843 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22844 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
22845 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
22846 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
22847 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
22850 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
22851 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
22852 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
22853 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
22854 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
22855 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
22856 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
22857 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
22858 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
22859 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
22860 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
22861 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22862 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
22863 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
22864 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
22866 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
22867 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
22868 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
22869 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
22870 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
22871 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22872 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
22874 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
22875 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
22878 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
22879 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
22880 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
22881 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
22882 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22883 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
22884 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
22885 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
22886 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
22887 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
22888 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
22889 fixes part of bug 3407.
22890 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
22891 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
22892 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
22893 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
22894 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
22895 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
22896 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
22897 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
22898 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
22899 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
22901 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
22902 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
22903 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
22904 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
22905 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
22906 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
22907 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
22908 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22909 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
22910 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
22911 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
22912 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22913 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
22914 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
22915 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
22916 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
22917 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
22919 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
22920 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
22921 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
22922 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
22923 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
22924 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
22925 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22926 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
22927 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
22928 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
22929 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
22930 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
22932 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
22933 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
22934 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
22935 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
22936 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
22938 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
22939 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
22940 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
22941 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
22943 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
22944 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
22945 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
22946 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
22947 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
22948 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
22949 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
22950 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
22951 structures and defines in or.h for now.
22952 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
22954 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
22955 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
22956 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
22957 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
22958 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
22959 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
22960 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
22961 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
22963 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
22964 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
22965 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
22967 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
22968 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
22969 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
22970 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
22971 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
22972 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
22973 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
22974 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
22975 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
22976 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
22978 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
22980 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
22981 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
22982 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
22983 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
22984 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
22985 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
22986 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
22987 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
22988 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
22989 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
22991 o Documentation changes:
22992 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
22993 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
22995 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
22996 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
22997 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
22998 what should go in a patch.
22999 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
23001 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
23002 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
23003 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
23004 projects directory in svn.
23006 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
23007 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
23008 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
23009 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
23010 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
23011 hidden service usage.
23012 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
23013 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
23014 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
23015 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
23016 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
23019 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
23020 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
23021 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
23022 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
23023 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
23026 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
23027 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
23028 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
23029 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
23030 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
23031 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
23032 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
23033 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
23034 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
23035 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
23036 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
23037 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
23038 via application-level web tricks.
23039 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
23040 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
23041 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
23042 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
23043 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
23044 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
23045 send a body too). Since only server versions before
23046 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
23047 keep the workaround in place.
23048 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
23049 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
23050 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
23051 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
23052 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
23053 want to do it differently.
23054 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
23055 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
23056 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
23059 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
23060 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
23061 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
23062 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
23063 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
23064 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
23067 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
23068 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
23069 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
23070 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
23071 the rest of bug 1074.
23072 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
23073 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23074 Found by "piebeer".
23075 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
23076 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
23077 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
23078 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
23079 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
23080 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
23081 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23084 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
23086 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23089 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
23090 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
23091 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
23092 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
23093 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
23094 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
23095 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
23096 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
23097 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
23098 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
23099 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23101 o Packaging changes:
23102 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
23103 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
23104 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
23105 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
23106 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
23107 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
23110 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
23111 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
23112 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
23113 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
23114 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
23116 o Major bugfixes (security):
23117 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
23118 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
23119 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
23121 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
23122 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
23123 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
23124 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
23125 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
23126 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
23127 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
23128 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
23130 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23131 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
23132 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
23133 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
23134 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
23135 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
23136 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
23137 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
23138 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
23139 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
23140 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
23141 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
23142 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
23143 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
23146 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23147 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
23148 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
23149 bug reported by doorss.
23150 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
23151 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
23152 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23153 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
23154 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
23156 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
23157 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
23158 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
23159 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
23160 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
23163 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23164 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
23167 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
23168 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
23169 Automake 1.7 or later.
23170 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
23171 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
23172 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
23173 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
23176 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
23177 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
23178 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
23179 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
23183 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
23184 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
23185 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
23186 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
23188 o Directory authority changes:
23189 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
23192 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23195 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
23196 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
23197 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
23198 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
23199 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
23202 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
23203 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
23204 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
23205 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
23206 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23207 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
23208 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
23209 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
23210 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
23211 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23212 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
23213 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
23214 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
23215 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
23216 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
23217 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
23218 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
23219 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
23220 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
23221 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
23222 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
23223 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
23224 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
23227 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
23228 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
23229 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
23230 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
23232 o New directory authorities:
23233 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
23237 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
23238 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
23239 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
23241 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
23242 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
23243 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
23244 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
23245 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
23246 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
23248 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
23249 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
23250 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
23253 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
23254 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
23255 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
23256 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
23257 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
23258 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
23259 Patch from mingw-san.
23262 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
23263 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
23264 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
23265 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
23266 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
23267 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
23270 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
23271 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
23272 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
23273 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
23274 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
23276 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
23277 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
23280 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
23281 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
23282 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
23283 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
23284 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
23285 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
23286 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
23287 their directory fetches over TLS).
23288 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
23289 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
23290 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
23291 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
23292 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
23293 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
23294 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
23295 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
23298 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
23299 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
23303 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
23304 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23305 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
23306 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
23307 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
23308 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
23309 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23312 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
23313 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
23314 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
23315 several minor potential security bugs.
23318 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
23319 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
23320 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
23321 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
23322 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
23323 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
23324 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
23327 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
23328 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
23330 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
23331 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
23332 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
23333 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
23336 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
23337 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
23341 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
23342 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
23343 customized patches to run/build.
23346 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
23347 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
23348 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
23351 o Major bugfixes (performance):
23352 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
23353 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
23354 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
23355 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
23356 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
23357 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
23358 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
23361 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
23362 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
23363 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
23364 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
23365 libraries in a security patch.
23366 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
23367 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
23368 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
23369 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
23373 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
23374 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
23377 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
23378 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
23379 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
23380 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
23381 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
23384 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
23385 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
23386 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
23387 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
23388 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
23390 o Directory authority changes:
23391 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
23395 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
23396 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
23397 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23400 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
23401 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
23402 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
23403 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
23404 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
23407 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
23408 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
23409 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
23410 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
23411 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
23412 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
23413 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
23416 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
23417 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
23418 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23419 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
23420 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
23421 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
23423 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
23424 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
23427 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
23428 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
23429 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
23430 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
23432 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
23433 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
23435 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
23436 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
23437 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
23438 in the Vidalia Settings window.
23441 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
23442 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
23443 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
23444 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
23445 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
23447 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
23448 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
23450 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
23451 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
23452 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
23455 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
23456 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
23457 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
23459 o New directory authorities:
23460 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
23462 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
23465 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
23466 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
23468 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
23469 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
23470 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23471 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
23472 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
23473 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
23474 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23475 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
23476 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
23477 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
23478 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
23479 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
23480 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
23481 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
23482 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
23483 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
23484 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
23486 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
23487 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
23488 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
23490 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
23491 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
23495 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
23496 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
23497 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
23498 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
23499 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
23502 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
23503 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
23507 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
23508 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
23509 part of patch provided by "optimist".
23512 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
23513 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
23514 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
23515 and confuse fewer users.
23518 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
23519 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
23520 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
23521 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
23522 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
23523 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
23524 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
23527 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
23528 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
23529 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
23530 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
23531 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
23532 other features and bug fixes.
23534 o Major features (clients):
23535 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
23536 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
23537 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
23538 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
23540 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
23541 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
23542 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
23543 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
23544 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
23545 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
23546 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
23547 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
23548 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
23549 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
23551 o Major features (relays):
23552 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
23553 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
23554 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
23555 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
23556 data. Found by Jacob.
23557 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
23558 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
23559 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
23560 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
23562 o Major features (hidden services):
23563 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
23564 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
23565 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
23566 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
23567 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
23568 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
23569 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
23570 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
23571 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
23572 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
23573 lookups more reliable.
23575 o Major features (path selection):
23576 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
23577 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
23578 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
23579 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
23580 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
23582 o Major features (misc):
23583 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
23584 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
23586 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
23587 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
23588 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
23589 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
23590 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
23591 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
23593 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
23594 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
23595 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
23596 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
23598 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
23601 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
23602 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
23603 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
23604 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
23605 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
23606 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
23607 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
23608 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
23609 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
23610 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
23611 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
23612 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
23613 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
23614 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
23615 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
23616 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
23617 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
23618 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
23619 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
23620 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
23621 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23622 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
23623 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
23624 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
23625 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
23626 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
23627 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
23628 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
23629 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
23630 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
23631 Implements proposal 148.
23633 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23634 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
23635 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
23636 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
23637 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
23638 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
23640 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
23641 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
23642 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
23643 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
23644 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
23645 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23646 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
23647 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
23648 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
23650 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
23651 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
23652 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
23653 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
23655 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
23656 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
23657 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
23658 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
23659 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
23660 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
23661 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
23662 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
23663 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23665 o Major bugfixes (clients):
23666 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
23667 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
23668 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
23669 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
23670 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
23671 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
23672 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
23673 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
23674 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
23675 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
23676 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
23677 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
23678 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
23679 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
23680 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
23683 o Major bugfixes (relays):
23684 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
23685 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
23686 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
23687 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
23688 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
23689 patch by Sebastian.
23690 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
23691 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
23692 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
23693 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
23694 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
23695 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
23696 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
23697 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
23698 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
23699 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
23702 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23703 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
23704 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
23705 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
23706 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
23707 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
23709 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
23710 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
23711 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
23712 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
23713 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
23714 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
23715 on a typical directory cache.
23716 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
23717 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
23718 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
23719 and may reduce fragmentation.
23721 o New/changed config options:
23722 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
23723 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
23724 Suggested by Lucky Green.
23725 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
23726 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
23727 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
23728 locked down these days.
23729 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
23730 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
23731 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
23732 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
23733 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
23734 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
23735 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
23736 output to messages of warning and error severity.
23737 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
23738 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
23739 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
23740 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
23741 directory requests we should expect to see.
23742 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
23743 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
23744 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
23745 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
23746 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
23747 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
23748 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
23750 o Minor features (relays):
23751 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
23752 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
23753 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
23754 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
23755 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
23757 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
23758 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
23759 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
23760 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
23761 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
23762 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
23763 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
23764 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
23765 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
23766 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
23767 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
23768 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
23769 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
23771 o Minor features (directory authorities):
23772 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
23773 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
23774 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
23775 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
23776 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
23777 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
23778 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
23779 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
23780 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
23781 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
23783 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
23784 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
23785 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
23786 fingerprints with or without space.
23788 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
23789 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
23790 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
23791 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
23792 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
23793 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
23794 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
23795 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
23796 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
23798 o Minor features (bridges):
23799 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
23800 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
23802 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
23803 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
23806 o Minor features (hidden services):
23807 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
23808 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
23809 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
23810 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
23811 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
23812 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
23813 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
23814 faster after restart.
23815 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
23816 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
23818 o Minor features (build and packaging):
23819 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
23821 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
23822 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
23824 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
23825 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
23826 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
23827 entirely. Patch from coderman.
23828 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
23829 are built without support for deprecated functions.
23830 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
23831 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
23832 system to do it for us.
23833 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
23834 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
23835 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
23836 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
23837 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
23838 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
23839 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
23840 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
23841 the letter of C99's alias rules.
23842 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
23843 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
23844 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
23845 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
23846 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
23847 with log.h on Android.
23848 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
23849 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
23851 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
23852 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
23853 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
23854 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
23856 o Minor features (controllers):
23857 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
23858 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
23859 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
23860 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
23861 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
23862 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
23863 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
23864 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
23865 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
23866 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
23868 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
23869 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
23870 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
23871 been fetched and validated.
23872 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
23873 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
23875 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
23877 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
23878 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
23879 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
23880 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
23881 partway through and wants to catch up.
23882 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
23884 o Minor features (tools):
23885 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
23886 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
23887 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
23888 people find host:port too confusing.
23889 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
23890 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
23892 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
23893 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
23894 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23895 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
23896 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
23897 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
23898 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
23899 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
23900 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
23902 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
23903 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
23904 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
23905 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
23906 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
23908 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
23909 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
23910 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
23912 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
23913 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23914 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
23915 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
23916 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
23917 have already been marked for close.
23918 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
23919 memory performance during directory parsing.
23921 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23922 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
23923 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
23924 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
23925 done that for a long time.
23926 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
23927 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
23928 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
23929 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
23930 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
23931 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
23932 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
23933 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
23934 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23935 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
23936 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
23937 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
23938 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
23939 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
23940 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
23941 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
23942 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
23943 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
23944 because of a pending download.
23945 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
23946 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
23947 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
23948 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
23949 bug 820, reported by seeess.
23951 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23952 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
23953 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
23954 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
23955 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
23956 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
23957 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
23958 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
23959 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
23961 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23962 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
23964 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
23965 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
23966 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
23967 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
23968 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
23969 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
23970 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
23971 of 0. Suggested by lark.
23972 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
23973 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
23974 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
23975 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
23976 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
23978 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
23979 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
23980 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
23982 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
23983 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
23985 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
23986 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
23987 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
23988 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
23989 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
23990 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
23991 rest, and don't automatically fail.
23992 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
23993 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
23994 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
23995 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
23996 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
23997 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23999 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
24000 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
24001 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
24002 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
24003 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
24004 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
24005 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
24007 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
24008 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24010 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24011 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
24012 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
24013 Workaround for bug 1024.
24014 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
24015 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
24016 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
24017 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
24018 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
24019 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
24020 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
24021 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
24024 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
24025 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
24028 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
24029 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
24030 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
24031 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
24032 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
24033 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
24034 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
24036 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
24037 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
24038 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
24039 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
24040 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
24041 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
24042 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
24043 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
24046 o Deprecated and removed features:
24047 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
24048 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
24049 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
24051 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
24053 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
24054 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
24055 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
24056 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
24057 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
24058 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
24059 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
24060 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
24061 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
24062 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
24063 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
24064 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
24065 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
24066 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
24069 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24070 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
24071 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
24072 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
24073 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
24075 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
24076 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
24077 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
24078 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
24079 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
24080 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
24081 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
24082 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
24083 actual mistakes we're making here.
24084 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
24085 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
24086 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
24087 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
24088 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
24089 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
24090 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
24091 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
24092 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
24093 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
24094 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
24095 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
24096 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
24097 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
24098 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
24101 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
24103 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
24104 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
24105 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
24106 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
24107 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24110 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
24111 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
24112 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
24113 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
24114 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
24115 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
24116 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
24117 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
24118 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
24119 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
24122 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
24123 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
24124 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
24125 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
24126 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
24127 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
24128 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
24129 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
24132 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
24133 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
24134 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
24135 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
24136 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
24138 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
24139 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
24140 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
24141 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
24144 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
24145 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24146 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
24147 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
24148 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
24149 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
24150 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
24151 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
24154 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
24155 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
24156 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
24157 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
24160 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
24161 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
24162 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
24163 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
24165 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
24166 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
24167 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
24170 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
24171 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
24174 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
24175 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
24176 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
24177 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
24178 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
24179 reported by "wood".
24180 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
24181 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
24182 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
24183 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
24184 identify a connection.
24185 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
24186 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
24187 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
24188 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
24189 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
24190 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
24191 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24192 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
24193 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
24194 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
24196 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
24197 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
24198 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
24199 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
24200 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
24201 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
24202 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
24205 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
24206 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
24208 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
24209 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
24210 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
24211 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
24212 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
24213 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
24214 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24215 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
24217 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
24218 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
24219 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
24220 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
24221 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
24222 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
24223 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
24224 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
24225 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
24226 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
24227 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
24228 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
24229 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
24230 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
24231 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24232 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
24233 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
24234 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24235 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
24236 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
24237 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
24238 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
24239 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
24240 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
24241 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
24242 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
24243 840. Patch from rovv.
24244 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
24245 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
24246 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
24248 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
24249 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
24250 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
24251 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
24252 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
24253 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
24254 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
24256 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24257 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
24258 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
24261 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
24262 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
24264 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
24265 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
24266 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
24267 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
24268 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
24269 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
24270 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
24271 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
24272 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
24274 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
24276 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
24277 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
24281 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
24282 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
24283 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
24284 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
24285 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
24286 variety of other issues.
24289 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
24290 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
24291 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
24292 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
24293 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
24294 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
24295 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
24296 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
24297 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
24298 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
24299 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
24300 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
24303 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
24304 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24306 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24307 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
24308 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
24309 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
24310 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
24311 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
24312 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24313 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
24314 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
24315 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
24316 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
24317 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
24318 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
24319 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
24320 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
24324 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
24325 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
24326 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
24327 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
24328 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
24329 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
24330 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
24331 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
24332 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
24333 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
24334 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
24335 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
24336 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
24337 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
24338 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
24339 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
24340 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
24341 list. It has been gone for many months.
24342 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
24343 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
24344 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
24347 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24348 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
24349 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
24352 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
24353 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
24354 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
24355 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
24358 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
24359 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
24360 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
24361 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
24362 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
24363 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
24365 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
24366 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
24367 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
24368 pointed out by rovv.
24371 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
24372 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24373 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
24374 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24375 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
24376 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
24377 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
24378 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
24379 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
24380 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24381 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
24382 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
24383 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
24384 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24385 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
24386 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
24387 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
24388 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
24389 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
24390 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
24391 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
24394 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
24395 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
24396 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
24397 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
24398 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
24399 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
24400 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
24402 o New v3 directory design:
24403 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
24404 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
24405 network status document rather than each publishing their own
24406 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
24407 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
24408 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
24409 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
24411 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
24412 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
24413 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
24414 dannenberg (run by CCC).
24415 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
24416 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
24417 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
24418 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
24419 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
24420 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
24421 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
24422 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
24423 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
24424 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
24426 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
24427 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
24428 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
24429 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
24430 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
24431 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
24432 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
24433 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
24434 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
24435 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
24436 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
24437 certain censored countries by default again.
24438 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
24439 Tor's x509 certificates.
24441 o Implement bridge relays:
24442 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
24443 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
24444 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
24445 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
24446 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
24447 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
24448 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
24449 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
24450 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
24451 rather than "v2,v3".
24452 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
24453 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
24454 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
24455 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
24456 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
24457 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
24458 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
24459 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
24460 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
24461 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
24462 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
24464 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
24465 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
24466 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
24467 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
24468 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
24469 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
24470 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
24471 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
24472 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
24473 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
24474 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
24475 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
24476 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
24477 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
24478 bridges are functioning.
24479 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
24480 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
24481 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
24482 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
24483 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
24484 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
24485 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
24486 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
24487 knows that password. Unset by default.
24488 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
24489 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
24490 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
24491 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
24492 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
24493 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
24494 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
24495 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
24496 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
24497 and bridges@torproject.org.
24499 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
24500 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
24501 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
24502 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
24503 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
24504 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
24505 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
24506 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
24507 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
24508 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
24509 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
24510 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
24511 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
24512 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
24513 longer a completely silly thing to do.
24515 o Major features (relay usability):
24516 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
24517 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
24518 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
24519 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
24520 proposal 111 for details.
24521 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
24522 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
24523 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
24524 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
24526 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
24527 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
24528 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
24530 o Major features (directory authorities):
24531 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
24532 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
24533 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
24534 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
24535 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
24536 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
24537 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
24538 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
24539 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
24540 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
24541 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
24542 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
24543 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
24545 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
24546 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
24547 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
24548 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
24549 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
24550 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
24551 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
24552 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
24553 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
24554 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
24555 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
24556 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
24557 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
24558 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
24559 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
24560 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
24561 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
24562 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
24563 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
24564 general, controller, or bridge.
24566 o Major features (other):
24567 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
24568 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
24569 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
24570 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
24571 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
24572 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
24573 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
24574 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
24575 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
24576 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
24577 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
24578 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
24579 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
24580 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
24583 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
24584 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
24585 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
24587 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
24588 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
24589 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
24590 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
24591 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
24592 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
24593 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
24594 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
24595 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
24596 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
24597 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
24599 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
24600 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
24602 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
24603 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
24604 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
24605 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
24607 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
24608 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
24609 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
24610 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
24611 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
24613 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
24614 address maps to an internal address space.
24615 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
24616 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
24617 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
24618 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
24619 complements proposal 107.
24620 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
24621 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
24622 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
24623 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
24624 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
24625 reported by taranis and lodger.
24626 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
24627 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
24628 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
24629 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
24630 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
24631 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
24632 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
24633 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
24634 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
24635 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
24636 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
24637 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
24638 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
24640 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
24641 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
24643 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
24644 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
24645 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
24646 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
24647 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
24648 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
24649 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
24651 o Major bugfixes (other):
24652 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
24653 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
24654 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
24656 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
24657 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
24658 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
24659 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
24660 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
24661 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
24662 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
24663 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
24664 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
24665 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
24666 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
24667 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
24668 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
24669 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
24670 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
24671 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
24672 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
24673 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
24674 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
24676 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
24677 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
24678 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
24679 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
24680 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
24681 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
24682 eat all of our bandwidth.
24683 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
24684 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
24685 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
24686 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
24687 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
24688 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
24689 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
24690 bug 688, reported by mfr.
24691 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
24692 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
24693 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
24694 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
24696 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
24697 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
24698 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
24699 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
24700 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
24701 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
24702 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
24703 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
24704 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
24705 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
24706 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
24707 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
24709 o Performance improvements (memory):
24710 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
24711 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
24712 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
24713 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
24714 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
24715 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
24716 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
24717 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
24718 memory fragmentation.
24719 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
24720 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
24721 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
24722 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
24723 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
24725 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
24726 of them were actually distinct.
24727 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
24729 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
24730 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
24731 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
24732 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
24733 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
24734 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
24735 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
24736 performance-intensive.
24737 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
24738 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
24739 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
24740 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
24741 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
24744 o Performance improvements (socket management):
24745 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
24746 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
24747 our allocated connection limit.
24748 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
24749 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
24750 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
24751 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
24752 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
24754 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
24755 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
24757 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
24758 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
24759 is interested in a given message.
24760 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
24761 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
24762 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
24763 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
24764 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
24766 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
24767 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
24768 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
24770 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
24771 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
24772 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
24773 they are the same).
24774 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
24775 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
24776 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
24777 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
24780 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
24781 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
24782 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
24783 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
24784 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
24785 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
24786 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
24788 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
24789 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
24790 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
24791 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
24792 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
24793 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
24794 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
24795 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
24796 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
24797 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
24798 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
24799 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
24800 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
24803 o Changed config option behavior (features):
24804 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
24805 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
24806 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
24807 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
24808 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
24809 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
24810 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
24811 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
24812 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
24813 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
24814 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
24815 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
24816 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
24817 and are reaching it.
24818 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
24819 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
24820 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
24821 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
24823 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
24824 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
24825 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
24826 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
24827 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
24828 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
24829 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
24830 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
24831 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
24833 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
24834 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
24835 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
24836 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
24837 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
24838 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
24839 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
24840 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
24842 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
24843 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
24845 o New config options:
24846 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
24847 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
24848 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
24849 running a test network on a single host.
24850 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
24851 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
24852 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
24853 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
24854 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
24855 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
24856 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
24857 the approved-routers file.
24858 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
24859 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
24860 v2 directory information.
24862 o Minor features (other):
24863 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
24864 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
24865 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
24866 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
24867 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
24868 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
24870 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
24871 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
24872 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
24873 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
24874 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
24875 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
24876 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
24878 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
24879 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
24880 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
24882 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
24883 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
24884 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
24885 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
24886 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
24888 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
24889 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
24890 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
24891 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
24892 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
24893 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
24894 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
24896 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
24897 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
24898 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
24899 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
24900 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
24901 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
24902 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
24903 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
24904 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
24907 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24908 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
24909 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
24911 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
24912 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
24913 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
24914 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
24915 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
24916 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
24918 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
24919 bandwidthburst values.
24920 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
24921 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
24922 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
24923 to mark all our entry points down.
24924 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
24925 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
24926 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
24927 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
24928 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
24930 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
24931 more often than they are allowed to appear.
24932 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
24933 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
24934 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
24935 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
24936 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
24937 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
24938 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
24940 o Controller features:
24941 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
24942 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
24943 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
24944 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
24945 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
24946 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
24948 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
24949 multiple controller passwords.
24950 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
24951 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
24952 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
24953 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
24955 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
24956 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
24957 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
24958 cookie authentication file, and config option
24959 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
24960 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
24961 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24962 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
24964 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
24965 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
24966 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
24967 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
24968 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
24969 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
24970 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
24972 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
24973 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
24975 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
24976 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
24977 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
24978 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
24979 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
24980 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
24981 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
24982 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
24983 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
24984 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
24985 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
24986 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
24987 report the value as a "minimum skew."
24989 o Controller bugfixes:
24990 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
24991 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
24992 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
24993 processes can't run us out of memory.
24994 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
24995 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
24996 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
24998 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
24999 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
25000 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
25001 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
25002 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
25003 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
25004 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
25005 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
25006 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
25007 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
25008 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
25009 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
25010 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
25011 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
25012 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
25014 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
25015 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
25017 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
25018 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
25019 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
25020 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
25021 WARN-severity events.
25023 o Portability / building / compiling:
25024 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
25025 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
25026 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
25027 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
25028 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
25029 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
25030 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
25031 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
25032 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
25033 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
25034 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
25035 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
25036 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
25038 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
25039 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
25040 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
25041 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
25042 Use this version consistently in log messages.
25043 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
25044 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
25045 partial results on small file reads.
25046 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
25047 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
25048 a directory. Fix from lodger.
25049 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
25050 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
25051 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
25053 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
25054 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
25055 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
25056 logging for the unit tests.
25057 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
25058 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
25060 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
25061 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
25063 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
25064 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
25065 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
25066 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
25069 o Logging improvements:
25070 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
25071 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
25072 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
25073 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
25074 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
25075 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
25076 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
25078 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
25079 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
25080 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
25081 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
25082 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
25083 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
25084 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
25085 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
25086 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
25087 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
25088 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
25089 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
25090 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25091 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
25092 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
25093 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
25094 Good in combination with --hash-password.
25095 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
25096 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
25098 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
25099 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
25100 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
25101 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
25103 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
25104 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
25105 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
25106 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
25107 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
25109 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
25110 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
25111 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
25112 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
25113 makes the log messages nicer.
25114 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
25115 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
25117 o Contributed scripts and tools:
25118 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
25119 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
25121 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
25122 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
25123 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
25124 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
25125 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
25126 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
25127 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
25128 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
25129 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
25130 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
25132 o Newly deprecated features:
25133 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
25134 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
25135 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
25136 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
25138 o Removed features:
25139 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
25140 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
25141 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
25142 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
25143 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
25145 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
25146 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
25147 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
25148 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
25149 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
25150 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
25151 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
25152 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
25154 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
25155 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
25156 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
25157 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
25158 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
25159 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
25161 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
25162 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
25163 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
25164 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
25165 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
25166 patch from Karsten Loesing.
25167 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
25168 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
25169 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
25170 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
25171 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
25172 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
25173 code), this assumption no longer holds.
25174 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
25178 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
25179 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
25180 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
25181 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25184 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
25185 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
25186 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
25187 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
25188 on network address.
25191 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
25192 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
25193 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
25194 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
25195 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
25196 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
25197 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
25198 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
25199 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
25200 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
25201 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
25202 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
25205 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
25206 rebuild our server descriptor.
25207 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
25208 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
25209 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
25210 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
25211 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
25212 nonstandard integer types.
25213 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
25214 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
25215 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
25216 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
25217 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
25219 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
25220 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
25221 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
25222 when they receive them.
25223 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
25224 This includes some 64-bit systems.
25225 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
25226 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
25227 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
25228 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
25229 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
25230 router_get_by_hexdigest().
25231 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
25232 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
25236 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
25237 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
25238 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
25239 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
25240 lists for a few hours each day.
25242 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25243 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
25244 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
25245 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
25246 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
25247 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
25248 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
25249 rend_process_relay_cell().
25251 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25252 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
25253 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
25254 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
25255 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
25256 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
25257 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
25258 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
25260 o Major bugfixes (other):
25261 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
25262 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
25263 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
25264 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
25265 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
25266 circuit cannibalization).
25267 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
25268 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
25269 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
25270 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
25271 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
25272 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
25275 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
25276 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
25278 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
25279 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
25280 absent. Resolves bug 467.
25281 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
25282 a way to trigger this remotely.)
25283 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
25284 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
25285 were reporting the dir port.)
25286 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
25287 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
25288 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
25289 the future. Fixes bug 434.
25290 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
25292 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
25293 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
25294 the onion key from getting rotated.
25295 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
25296 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
25297 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
25298 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
25299 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
25300 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
25301 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25304 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
25305 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
25306 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
25307 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
25308 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
25311 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
25312 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
25315 o Major bugfixes (security):
25316 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
25317 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
25318 become more of a headache than it's worth.
25320 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
25321 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
25322 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
25324 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
25325 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
25326 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
25327 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
25328 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
25329 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
25331 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
25332 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
25333 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
25334 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
25335 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
25337 o Minor features (controller):
25338 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
25339 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
25340 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
25341 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
25343 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
25344 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
25345 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
25346 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
25347 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
25348 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
25349 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
25350 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
25352 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
25353 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
25354 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
25355 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
25356 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
25357 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
25358 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
25359 if we ran off the end of the list.
25360 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
25361 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
25362 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
25363 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
25364 every time we change any piece of our config.
25365 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
25366 encourage people using them to stop.
25367 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
25369 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
25370 servers to choose a circuit.
25371 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
25372 unparseable piece of it.
25375 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
25376 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
25377 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
25378 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
25379 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
25380 TorK, etc. Or worse.
25382 o Major security fixes:
25383 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
25384 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
25387 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
25388 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
25389 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
25390 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
25392 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
25393 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
25395 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25396 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
25397 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
25398 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
25399 routerlist while inserting a new router.
25400 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
25401 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
25403 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
25404 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
25405 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
25407 o Major bugfixes (security):
25408 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
25410 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
25411 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
25412 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
25413 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
25414 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
25415 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
25416 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
25417 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
25418 guard list unless we need to.
25420 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
25421 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
25422 don't get overused as guards.
25424 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
25425 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
25426 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
25427 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
25428 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
25430 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25431 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
25432 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
25435 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
25436 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
25437 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
25438 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
25439 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
25440 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
25441 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
25442 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
25445 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
25446 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
25447 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
25448 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
25450 o Directory authority changes:
25451 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
25452 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
25453 or use hidden services.
25455 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25456 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
25457 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
25458 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
25459 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
25460 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
25461 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
25462 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
25463 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
25466 o Major bugfixes (security):
25467 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
25468 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
25469 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
25471 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
25472 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
25473 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
25474 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
25475 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
25476 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
25477 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
25478 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
25479 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
25480 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
25483 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
25484 purpose=controller.
25485 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
25486 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
25488 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
25489 having a hard time downloading.
25490 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
25491 partial results on small file reads.
25492 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
25493 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
25494 the gaps in the store get very large.
25497 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
25498 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
25500 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
25501 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
25504 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
25505 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
25506 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
25507 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
25508 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
25509 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
25511 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
25512 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
25513 free speech on the Internet.
25515 o Major features, client performance:
25516 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
25517 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
25518 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
25519 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
25520 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
25521 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
25522 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
25523 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
25524 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
25525 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
25526 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
25527 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
25528 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
25529 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
25530 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
25532 o Major features, client functionality:
25533 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
25534 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
25535 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
25536 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
25537 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
25538 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
25539 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
25540 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
25541 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
25542 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
25543 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
25544 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
25545 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
25547 o Major features, servers:
25548 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
25549 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
25550 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
25551 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
25552 authenticated, so use with care.
25553 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
25554 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
25555 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
25557 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
25558 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
25559 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
25560 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
25561 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
25562 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
25564 o Improvements on DNS support:
25565 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
25566 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
25567 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
25568 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
25569 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
25570 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
25571 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
25572 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
25573 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
25574 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
25575 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
25576 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
25577 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
25578 lets you turn it off.
25579 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
25580 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
25581 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
25582 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
25583 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
25584 useful to the network.
25585 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
25586 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
25587 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
25588 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
25589 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
25590 our tests for DNS hijacking.
25592 o Improvements on reachability testing:
25593 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
25594 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
25595 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
25596 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
25597 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
25598 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
25599 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
25600 if their identity keys are as expected.
25601 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
25602 chews through many circuits before giving up.
25603 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
25604 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
25605 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
25606 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
25607 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
25608 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
25609 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
25610 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
25611 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
25612 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
25613 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
25614 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
25616 o Improvements on rate limiting:
25617 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
25618 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
25619 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
25620 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
25621 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
25623 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
25624 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
25625 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
25626 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
25627 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
25628 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
25629 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
25630 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
25632 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
25633 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
25635 o Major features, NT services:
25636 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
25637 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
25638 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
25639 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
25640 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
25641 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
25642 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
25644 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
25645 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
25646 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
25648 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
25649 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
25650 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
25652 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
25653 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
25655 o Directory authority improvements:
25656 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
25658 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
25659 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
25660 too much load to the exit nodes.
25661 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
25662 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
25663 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
25664 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
25665 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
25666 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
25667 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
25668 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
25669 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
25670 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
25671 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
25672 broken. Not used yet.
25673 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
25674 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
25675 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
25676 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
25677 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
25678 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
25679 non-versioning dirservers.
25680 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
25681 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
25682 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
25684 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
25685 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
25686 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
25687 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
25689 o Directory mirrors and clients:
25690 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
25691 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
25692 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
25693 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
25694 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
25695 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
25696 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
25697 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
25698 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
25699 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
25700 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
25701 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
25702 routers for even longer.
25703 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
25704 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
25705 caching HTTP proxies.
25706 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
25707 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
25708 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
25709 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
25711 o Major fixes, crashes:
25712 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
25713 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
25714 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
25715 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
25717 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
25718 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
25719 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
25720 stream is detached.
25721 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
25722 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
25723 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
25724 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
25725 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
25726 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
25727 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
25728 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
25729 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
25730 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
25732 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
25733 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
25734 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
25735 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
25736 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
25737 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
25738 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
25739 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
25740 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
25741 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
25742 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
25743 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
25744 could return an unnamed server instead.
25745 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
25746 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
25747 a more attractive target for compromise.)
25748 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
25749 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
25750 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
25751 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
25753 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
25754 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
25756 o Major fixes, other:
25757 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
25758 uptime in the descriptor.
25759 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
25760 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
25761 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
25762 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
25763 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
25764 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
25765 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
25766 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
25767 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
25768 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
25769 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
25770 our DirPort now, etc.
25771 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
25772 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
25773 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
25775 o New config options or behaviors:
25776 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
25777 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
25778 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
25779 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
25780 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
25781 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
25782 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
25783 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
25784 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
25785 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
25786 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
25787 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
25789 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
25790 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
25791 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
25792 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
25793 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
25795 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
25796 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
25797 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
25798 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
25799 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
25800 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
25801 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
25802 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
25803 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
25804 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
25805 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
25806 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
25807 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
25808 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
25809 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
25810 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
25811 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
25812 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
25813 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
25814 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
25815 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
25816 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
25817 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
25818 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
25819 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
25820 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
25821 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
25822 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
25823 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
25824 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
25826 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
25827 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
25828 your ORPort is set.
25831 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
25832 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
25834 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
25835 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
25836 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
25837 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
25839 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
25840 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
25841 whether the config options are bad or good.
25842 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
25843 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
25844 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
25845 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
25846 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
25847 result more than once.
25848 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
25849 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
25850 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
25851 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
25852 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
25853 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
25854 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
25855 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
25856 before we check for libevent.
25857 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
25858 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
25859 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
25860 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
25861 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
25862 recommendation system saner.)
25863 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
25864 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
25865 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
25866 now universal binaries.
25867 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
25868 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
25870 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
25872 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
25873 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
25874 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
25875 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
25876 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
25877 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
25879 o Minor features, controller:
25880 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
25881 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
25882 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
25884 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
25885 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
25886 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
25887 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
25888 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
25889 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
25890 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
25892 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
25893 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
25894 connected or resolved cell.
25895 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
25896 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
25897 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
25898 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
25899 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
25900 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
25901 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
25903 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
25904 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
25905 entry guard status as it changes.
25906 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
25907 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
25908 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
25909 watching for STREAM events.
25910 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
25911 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
25912 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
25913 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
25915 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
25916 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
25917 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
25918 working much like those for circuit events.
25919 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
25920 about the current status of a router.
25921 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
25922 a router's status has changed.
25923 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
25924 can tell which events and features are supported.
25925 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
25926 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
25927 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
25928 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
25929 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
25930 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
25931 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
25932 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
25933 for more information.
25934 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
25935 best guess to the user.
25936 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
25937 descriptor has changed.
25938 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
25939 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
25940 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
25942 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
25943 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
25944 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
25945 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
25946 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
25947 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
25948 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
25949 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
25950 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
25951 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
25952 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
25954 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
25955 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
25957 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
25958 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
25959 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
25961 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
25962 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
25963 the controller from learning about current events.
25964 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
25965 reported by Mike Perry.
25966 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
25967 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
25968 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
25969 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
25970 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
25971 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
25972 long nicknames where appropriate.
25973 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
25974 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
25976 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
25977 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
25978 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
25979 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
25980 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
25982 o Minor features, code performance:
25983 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
25984 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
25985 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
25987 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
25988 some profiles, but not others.)
25989 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
25990 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
25991 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
25992 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
25993 operations, for profiling.
25994 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
25995 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
25996 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
25997 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
25998 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
25999 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
26000 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
26001 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
26003 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
26004 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
26005 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
26006 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
26007 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
26008 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
26009 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
26010 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
26011 family lists conveniently.
26013 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
26014 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
26015 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
26016 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
26017 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
26018 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
26019 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
26020 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
26021 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
26022 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
26023 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
26024 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
26025 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
26026 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
26027 of it), is not therefore "up".
26029 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
26030 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
26031 what version a router is running.
26032 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
26033 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
26034 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
26035 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
26037 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
26038 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
26039 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
26040 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
26041 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
26044 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
26045 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
26046 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
26048 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
26049 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
26051 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
26052 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
26053 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
26054 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
26055 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
26056 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
26057 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
26058 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
26059 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
26060 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
26062 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
26063 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
26064 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
26065 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
26066 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
26067 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
26068 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
26069 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
26070 get one we don't recognize.
26073 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
26074 o Security bugfixes:
26075 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
26076 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
26077 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
26078 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
26082 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
26083 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
26084 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
26087 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
26089 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
26090 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
26091 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
26092 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
26093 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
26094 its circuits on demand.
26095 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
26096 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
26097 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
26098 connections more stable on average.
26099 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
26100 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
26101 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
26103 o Security bugfixes:
26104 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
26105 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
26108 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
26110 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
26111 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
26112 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
26113 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
26114 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
26115 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
26116 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
26117 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
26120 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
26122 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
26123 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
26124 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
26125 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
26126 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
26127 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
26128 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
26129 it can't resolve its hostname.
26130 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
26131 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
26132 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
26135 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
26136 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
26137 "extendcircuit" request.
26138 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
26139 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
26140 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
26141 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
26143 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
26144 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
26145 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
26147 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
26148 methods: these are known to be buggy.
26149 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
26150 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
26151 we don't recognize.
26154 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
26156 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
26157 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
26158 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
26159 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
26160 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
26161 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
26162 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
26163 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
26164 test reachability, so you won't publish.
26167 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
26168 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
26169 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
26170 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
26171 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
26173 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
26174 own server descriptor yet.
26177 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
26179 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
26180 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
26181 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
26182 make sure to test via one of these.
26183 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
26184 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
26185 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
26186 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
26187 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
26189 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
26190 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
26191 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
26194 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
26195 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
26196 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
26197 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
26198 directory authority.
26199 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
26200 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
26201 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
26202 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
26205 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
26206 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
26207 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
26209 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
26210 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
26211 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
26212 current guards when picking a new guard.
26213 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
26214 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
26215 when we had more than one pending.
26216 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
26217 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
26218 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
26219 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
26220 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
26221 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
26222 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
26223 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
26224 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
26225 debug the reachability problems better.
26227 o Log / documentation fixes:
26228 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
26229 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
26230 about protocol violations by others.
26231 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
26232 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
26233 about what happened to our old torrc.
26236 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
26237 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
26238 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
26239 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
26240 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
26241 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
26243 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
26244 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
26245 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
26246 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
26247 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
26248 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
26249 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
26250 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
26251 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
26252 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
26253 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
26254 on malicious huge inputs.
26256 o Security fixes, major:
26257 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
26258 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
26259 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
26260 misreading their logs.
26261 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
26262 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
26263 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
26264 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
26265 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
26266 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
26267 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
26268 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
26269 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
26270 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
26271 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
26272 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
26273 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
26274 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
26276 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
26277 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
26278 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
26279 firewall options forbid.
26280 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
26281 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
26282 can only proxy to certain destinations.
26283 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
26284 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
26285 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
26287 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
26288 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
26289 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
26290 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
26291 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
26292 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
26293 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
26294 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
26295 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
26296 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
26297 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
26298 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
26299 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
26301 o Security fixes, minor:
26302 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
26303 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
26305 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
26306 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
26307 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
26308 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
26309 if we've not heard of a server.
26310 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
26311 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
26312 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
26313 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
26314 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
26315 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
26316 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
26317 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
26318 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
26319 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
26320 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
26321 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
26322 aids some statistical attacks.
26323 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
26324 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
26325 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
26326 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
26327 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
26328 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
26329 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
26330 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
26333 o Packaging improvements:
26334 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
26335 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
26336 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
26337 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
26338 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
26339 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
26341 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
26342 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
26343 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
26344 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
26345 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
26346 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
26348 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
26349 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
26350 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
26352 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
26353 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
26354 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
26355 They are useless now.
26356 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
26357 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
26358 is reachable by you.
26359 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
26362 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
26363 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
26364 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
26365 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
26366 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
26367 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
26368 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
26369 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
26370 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
26371 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
26372 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
26373 and isolating attacks better.
26374 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
26375 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
26376 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
26377 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
26378 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
26379 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
26380 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
26381 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
26382 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
26383 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
26384 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
26386 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
26387 can answer v2 directory requests too.
26388 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
26389 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
26390 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
26391 mirrors still cache and serve it).
26392 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
26393 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
26394 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
26395 for clients and for servers.
26396 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
26397 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
26398 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
26399 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
26400 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
26401 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
26402 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
26403 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
26404 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
26405 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
26406 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
26408 o Other directory improvements:
26409 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
26410 fifth authoritative directory servers.
26411 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
26412 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
26413 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
26414 to hang up on them.
26415 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
26416 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
26417 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
26418 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
26419 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
26420 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
26422 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
26423 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
26424 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
26425 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
26426 connections more reliable.
26427 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
26428 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
26429 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
26430 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
26431 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
26432 we fail to connect).
26433 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
26435 o Controller protocol improvements:
26436 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
26437 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
26438 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
26439 applications without caring how our protocol works.
26440 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
26441 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
26442 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
26443 many bytes we've used in this time period.
26444 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
26445 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
26446 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
26447 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
26448 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
26449 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
26450 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
26451 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
26452 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
26453 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
26454 or "signal reload".
26455 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
26456 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
26457 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
26458 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
26459 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
26460 a router in its role as directory authority.
26461 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
26462 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
26463 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
26464 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
26465 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
26466 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
26467 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
26468 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
26469 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
26470 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
26471 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
26472 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
26473 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
26474 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
26475 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
26476 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
26477 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
26478 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
26480 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
26481 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
26482 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
26483 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
26484 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
26485 just tell them to go read their logs.
26487 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
26488 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
26489 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
26490 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
26491 try to be a bit more fair.
26492 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
26493 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
26494 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
26495 and we're using a default DirPort.
26496 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
26497 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
26498 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
26499 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
26500 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
26501 services faster on the service end.
26502 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
26504 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
26505 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
26506 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
26507 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
26508 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
26509 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
26510 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
26511 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
26512 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
26513 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
26514 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
26515 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
26516 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
26517 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
26518 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
26519 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
26520 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
26521 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
26522 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
26523 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
26524 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
26525 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
26526 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
26527 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
26528 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
26530 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
26531 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
26532 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
26533 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
26534 so we can be backward-compatible.
26535 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
26536 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
26537 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
26538 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
26539 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
26540 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
26541 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
26542 initial descriptor forever.
26543 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
26544 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
26545 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
26546 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
26547 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
26548 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
26549 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
26550 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
26551 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
26552 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
26553 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
26554 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
26555 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
26556 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
26557 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
26558 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
26559 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
26560 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
26561 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
26562 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
26563 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
26564 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
26565 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
26566 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
26567 ports that have changed.
26568 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
26569 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
26570 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
26571 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
26572 connections once a week.
26573 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
26574 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
26575 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
26576 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
26577 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
26578 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
26579 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
26580 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
26581 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
26582 able to discover them.
26583 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
26584 want to make it an NT service.
26585 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
26586 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
26587 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
26588 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
26589 memory leaks better.
26590 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
26591 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
26592 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
26593 statistics are now uint64_t's.
26594 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
26595 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
26596 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
26597 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
26598 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
26599 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
26600 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
26601 default ulimit -n is 1024.
26602 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
26603 and its existence is confusing some users.
26605 o Config option fixes:
26606 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
26607 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
26608 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
26609 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
26610 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
26611 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
26612 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
26613 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
26614 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
26616 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
26617 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
26618 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
26619 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
26620 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
26621 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
26622 it would silently ignore the 6668.
26623 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
26624 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
26625 silently resetting it to its default.
26626 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
26627 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
26628 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
26629 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
26630 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
26631 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
26632 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
26633 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
26634 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
26635 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
26636 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
26637 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
26638 Address config option.
26639 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
26640 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
26642 o Config option features:
26643 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
26644 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
26645 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
26646 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
26647 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
26649 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
26650 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
26651 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
26652 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
26653 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
26654 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
26655 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
26656 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
26657 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
26658 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
26659 in at least some cases.)
26660 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
26661 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
26662 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
26663 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
26664 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
26665 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
26666 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
26667 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
26668 even if we know they're jerks.
26669 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
26670 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
26671 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
26672 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
26673 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
26674 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
26675 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
26676 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
26677 because older Tors do not understand it.
26678 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
26679 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
26680 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
26681 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
26682 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
26683 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
26684 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
26685 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
26686 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
26687 unattached before we fail it?
26688 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
26689 at least this many seconds ago.
26690 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
26691 at least this many seconds ago.
26692 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
26693 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
26695 o Improved and clearer log messages:
26696 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
26697 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
26698 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
26700 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
26701 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
26702 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
26703 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
26704 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
26705 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
26706 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
26707 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
26708 temporarily unreachable.
26709 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
26710 Windows-style errno back.
26711 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
26712 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
26714 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
26715 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
26716 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
26717 exactly for this case.
26718 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
26719 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
26720 don't warn twice about the same name.
26721 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
26723 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
26724 it was self-testing that told us so.
26725 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
26726 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
26727 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
26728 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
26729 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
26730 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
26731 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
26732 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
26733 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
26734 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
26735 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
26736 established a circuit.
26737 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
26738 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
26739 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
26740 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
26741 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
26742 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
26743 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
26744 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
26745 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
26746 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
26747 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
26748 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
26749 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
26750 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
26751 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
26752 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
26753 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
26754 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
26755 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
26756 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
26757 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
26758 testing for reachability.
26759 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
26760 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
26762 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
26765 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
26766 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26767 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
26768 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
26770 o Other important bugfixes:
26771 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
26772 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
26773 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
26774 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
26776 o Backported features:
26777 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
26778 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
26779 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
26780 without getting overloaded.
26781 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
26782 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
26783 503's whenever they feel busy.
26784 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
26785 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
26786 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
26787 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
26788 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
26791 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
26792 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26793 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
26794 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
26795 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
26796 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
26797 too -- so detect and avoid this.
26798 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
26800 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
26801 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
26802 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
26803 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
26804 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
26805 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
26806 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
26807 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
26808 rendezvous circuits.
26809 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
26811 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26812 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
26813 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
26814 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
26815 advertising it because of hibernation.
26816 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
26817 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
26818 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
26819 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
26820 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
26821 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
26822 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
26823 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
26824 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
26825 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
26826 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
26827 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
26828 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
26829 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
26830 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
26833 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
26834 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26835 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
26836 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
26837 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
26838 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
26839 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
26840 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
26841 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
26842 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
26843 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
26844 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
26845 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
26846 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
26847 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
26850 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
26851 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26852 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
26854 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
26855 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
26858 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
26859 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26860 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
26861 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
26862 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
26863 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
26864 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
26866 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
26867 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
26871 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
26872 o New directory servers:
26873 - tor26 has changed IP address.
26875 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26876 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
26877 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
26878 pthreads libraries.
26879 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
26880 claims its dirport is 0.
26881 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
26882 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
26886 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
26887 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
26888 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
26889 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
26890 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
26891 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
26892 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
26893 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
26896 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
26898 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
26899 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
26900 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
26901 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
26902 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
26903 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
26904 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
26905 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
26906 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
26908 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
26909 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
26911 o Assert / crash bugs:
26912 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
26913 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
26914 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
26916 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
26917 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
26918 TLS errors better in other situations too.
26919 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
26920 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
26923 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
26924 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
26925 duplicate ram over time.
26926 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
26927 reentry and threadsafeness.
26928 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
26929 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
26930 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
26932 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
26933 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
26934 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
26935 point at your Tor server.
26936 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
26938 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
26939 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
26942 o Protocol correctness:
26943 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
26944 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
26945 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
26946 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
26947 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
26948 to abandon partially built circuits.
26949 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
26950 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
26951 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
26952 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
26953 descriptors we just dropped.
26954 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
26955 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
26956 and to take errno into account where possible.
26957 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
26958 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
26959 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
26960 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
26962 o Robustness improvements:
26963 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
26964 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
26965 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
26967 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
26968 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
26969 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
26970 that will want high uptime circuits.
26971 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
26972 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
26973 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
26974 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
26975 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
26976 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
26977 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
26978 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
26979 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
26980 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
26981 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
26982 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
26983 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
26984 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
26985 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
26986 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
26987 for google.com" problem.
26988 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
26989 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
26990 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
26991 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
26992 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
26995 o Reachability testing.
26996 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
26997 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
26998 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
26999 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
27000 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
27001 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
27002 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
27003 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
27004 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
27005 already connected to them.
27006 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
27010 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
27011 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
27012 nickname+key are allowed.
27013 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
27014 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
27015 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
27016 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
27017 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
27018 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
27019 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
27020 have quite wrong clocks).
27021 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
27022 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
27023 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
27024 their descriptors are being rejected.
27026 o Efficiency improvements:
27027 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
27028 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
27029 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
27030 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
27031 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
27032 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
27033 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
27034 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
27035 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
27036 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
27038 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
27039 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
27040 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
27041 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
27042 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
27043 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
27044 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
27045 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
27046 of CPU time plus memory.
27047 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
27048 directory every time you regenerate it.
27049 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
27050 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
27051 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
27052 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
27053 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
27054 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
27055 lowercase when you first see them.
27058 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
27059 hidden services better.
27060 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
27061 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
27062 when we try to launch one.
27063 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
27064 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
27065 attempts to build a circuit.
27066 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
27067 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
27068 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
27069 normal web requests.
27072 - More Tor controller support. See
27073 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
27074 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
27075 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
27076 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
27077 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
27078 to make it easier to write controllers.
27079 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
27080 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
27081 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
27082 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
27083 new log event types.
27085 o New config options/defaults:
27086 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
27087 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
27088 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
27089 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
27090 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
27092 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
27094 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
27095 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
27096 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
27097 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
27098 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
27100 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
27101 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
27102 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
27103 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
27104 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
27105 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
27106 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
27107 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
27108 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
27109 required exit node for certain sites.
27110 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
27111 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
27112 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
27113 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
27114 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
27115 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
27116 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
27117 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
27118 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
27120 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
27121 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
27122 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
27123 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
27124 private-IP addresses.
27125 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
27126 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
27127 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
27128 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
27129 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
27130 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
27131 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
27132 is valid without actually launching Tor.
27134 o Logging improvements:
27135 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
27136 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
27137 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
27138 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
27140 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
27141 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
27142 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
27143 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
27144 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
27145 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
27146 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
27147 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
27148 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
27150 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
27152 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
27153 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
27154 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
27155 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
27156 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
27157 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
27159 o New contrib scripts:
27160 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
27161 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
27163 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
27164 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
27165 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
27166 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
27167 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
27168 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
27170 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
27171 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
27172 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
27173 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
27177 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
27178 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
27179 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
27180 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
27181 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
27182 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
27183 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
27185 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
27186 something more reasonable when first installing.
27187 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
27188 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
27189 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
27190 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
27192 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
27193 artificially capped at 500kB.
27194 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
27196 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
27197 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
27198 they could use instead.
27199 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
27200 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
27201 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
27202 the user asks you to.
27205 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
27206 rather than just rejecting it.
27207 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
27208 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
27209 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
27210 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
27211 rather than just "success" or "failure".
27212 - A more sane version numbering system. See
27213 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
27214 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
27215 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
27216 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
27217 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
27218 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
27220 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
27221 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
27222 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
27223 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
27225 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
27226 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
27228 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
27229 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
27230 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
27231 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
27233 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
27234 whether the server is hibernating.
27237 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
27238 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
27239 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
27240 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
27241 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
27245 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
27246 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27247 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
27248 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
27249 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
27252 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
27253 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27254 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
27255 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
27256 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
27257 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
27258 busy for more than 100 seconds.
27261 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
27262 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27263 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
27264 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
27265 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
27266 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
27267 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
27268 creating actual system users.
27269 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
27270 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
27274 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
27275 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
27276 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
27277 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
27278 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
27279 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
27280 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
27281 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
27282 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
27283 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
27284 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
27285 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
27286 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
27287 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
27288 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
27290 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
27291 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
27292 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
27293 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
27294 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
27295 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
27296 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
27297 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
27298 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
27299 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
27300 existing torrc files.
27301 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
27304 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
27305 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27306 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
27307 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
27308 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
27309 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
27310 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
27311 the win32 SYSTEM account.
27312 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
27313 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
27314 file descriptors available.
27315 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
27316 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
27317 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
27320 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
27321 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27322 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
27323 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
27325 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
27326 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
27327 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
27328 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
27329 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
27331 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
27332 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
27333 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
27334 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
27335 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
27336 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
27337 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
27338 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
27339 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
27340 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
27341 800kB/s of capacity.
27342 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
27345 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
27346 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27347 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
27348 need as much processor time.
27349 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
27350 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
27351 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
27352 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
27353 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
27354 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
27355 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
27356 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
27357 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
27358 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
27359 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
27360 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
27362 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
27363 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
27364 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
27365 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
27366 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
27367 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
27368 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
27371 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
27372 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
27373 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
27375 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
27376 style address, then we'd crash.
27377 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
27378 a dirserver is broken.
27379 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
27381 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
27382 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
27383 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
27385 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
27386 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
27387 name out of the warning/assert messages.
27388 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
27389 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
27390 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
27392 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
27393 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
27394 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
27396 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
27398 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
27399 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
27400 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
27401 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
27402 values at once couldn't work.
27403 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
27404 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
27405 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
27406 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
27407 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
27408 they can handle any number of routers.
27409 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
27410 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
27411 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
27412 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
27413 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
27414 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
27415 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
27416 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
27417 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
27420 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
27421 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27422 - Make hibernation actually work.
27423 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
27424 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
27425 don't use the stream status code.
27428 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
27429 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
27430 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
27431 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
27432 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
27433 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
27434 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
27435 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
27436 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
27437 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
27438 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
27439 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
27442 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
27443 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
27444 win32 socket errors better.
27445 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
27446 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
27447 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
27448 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
27450 - Make unit tests work on win32.
27452 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
27453 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
27454 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
27455 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
27456 right after sending the begin cell.
27457 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
27458 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
27459 exit nodes too. Oops.
27460 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
27461 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
27462 the user would get no response.
27463 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
27464 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
27465 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
27467 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
27468 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
27469 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
27470 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
27471 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
27473 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
27474 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
27475 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
27476 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
27477 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
27478 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
27479 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
27480 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
27481 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
27482 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
27483 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
27485 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
27486 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
27487 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
27488 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
27489 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
27490 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
27491 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
27492 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
27493 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
27494 so we don't see those messages days later.
27495 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
27496 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
27498 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
27499 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
27500 they ran out of file descriptors.
27501 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
27502 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
27503 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
27504 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
27506 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
27507 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
27508 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
27509 the ones we find in directories.)
27510 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
27511 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
27512 if you don't want it open.
27513 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
27514 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
27515 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
27516 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
27517 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
27518 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
27520 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
27521 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
27523 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
27525 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
27526 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
27528 o Features (circuits and streams):
27529 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
27530 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
27531 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
27532 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
27533 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
27534 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
27535 the user knows which one it's talking about.
27536 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
27537 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
27538 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
27539 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
27540 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
27541 from Geoff Goodell.
27542 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
27544 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
27545 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
27546 to fill the last cell completely.
27547 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
27548 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
27550 o Features (bandwidth):
27551 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
27552 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
27553 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
27554 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
27555 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
27556 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
27557 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
27558 your billing cycle starts on.
27559 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
27560 hibernation properties by
27561 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
27562 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
27563 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
27564 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
27565 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
27567 o Features (directories):
27568 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
27569 nickname to its identity key.
27570 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
27571 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
27572 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
27573 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
27574 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
27576 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
27577 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
27579 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
27580 will be able to get a directory.
27581 - Http proxy support
27582 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
27583 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
27584 be routed through this host.
27585 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
27586 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
27587 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
27588 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
27589 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
27590 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
27592 o Features (packages and install):
27593 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
27594 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
27595 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
27596 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
27597 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
27598 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
27599 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
27600 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
27601 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
27602 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
27605 o Features (ui controller):
27606 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
27607 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
27608 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
27609 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
27610 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
27611 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
27612 with the control port.
27613 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
27614 use in authenticating to the control interface.
27615 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
27616 configuration to torrc.
27617 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
27618 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
27619 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
27621 o Features (config and command-line):
27622 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
27623 not on the command line.
27624 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
27626 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
27627 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
27628 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
27629 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
27630 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
27631 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
27632 - New log format in config:
27633 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
27634 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
27635 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
27636 from their dirserver.
27637 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
27639 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
27640 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
27641 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
27642 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
27643 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
27644 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
27645 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
27646 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
27647 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
27648 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
27649 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
27650 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
27651 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
27652 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
27653 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
27654 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
27655 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
27656 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
27657 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
27658 than once per minute.
27660 o Features (other):
27661 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
27662 get back to normal.)
27663 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
27664 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
27665 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
27666 log more informatively.
27667 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
27668 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
27669 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
27670 from each other, to hinder linkability.
27671 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
27672 them act more like real nodes.
27673 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
27674 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
27675 1024) file descriptors.
27676 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
27679 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
27681 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
27682 clients/servers with an open dirport.
27683 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
27684 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
27685 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
27686 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
27687 intermittent connections.
27688 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
27689 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
27691 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
27692 in reporting stats locally.
27693 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
27694 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
27695 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
27698 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
27700 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
27701 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
27702 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
27703 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
27704 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
27705 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
27706 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
27707 list to decide who's running.
27708 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
27709 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
27710 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
27711 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
27712 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
27713 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
27714 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
27715 for pointing out this bug.)
27716 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
27718 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
27719 don't put it into the client dns cache.
27720 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
27721 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
27722 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
27724 o Protocol changes:
27725 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
27726 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
27727 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
27728 hadn't heard of before.
27731 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
27732 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
27733 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
27734 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
27735 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
27736 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
27737 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
27738 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
27739 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
27740 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
27741 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
27742 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
27743 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
27744 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
27745 - Directory caching.
27746 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
27747 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
27748 directory they've pulled down.
27749 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
27750 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
27751 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
27752 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
27753 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
27754 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
27755 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
27757 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
27758 This isn't used yet.
27759 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
27760 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
27761 clients don't use this yet.)
27762 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
27763 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
27764 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
27765 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
27766 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
27767 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
27768 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
27769 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
27770 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
27771 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
27772 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
27773 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
27774 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
27775 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
27776 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
27777 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
27778 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
27779 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
27780 - File and name management:
27781 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
27782 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
27784 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
27785 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
27786 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
27787 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
27788 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
27789 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
27790 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
27792 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
27793 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
27794 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
27796 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
27797 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
27798 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
27799 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
27800 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
27801 - New docs in the tarball:
27803 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
27804 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
27805 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
27806 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
27807 know you might want to get it verified.
27808 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
27809 kazaa, gnutella ports.
27810 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
27811 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
27812 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
27813 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
27814 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
27815 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
27816 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
27818 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
27820 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
27821 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
27823 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
27824 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
27825 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
27828 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
27829 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
27830 ask them to resolve the host "".
27833 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
27834 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
27835 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
27838 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
27839 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
27840 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
27843 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
27844 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
27845 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
27846 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
27848 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
27849 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
27850 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
27852 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
27853 hidden service per 15-minute period.
27854 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
27855 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
27856 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
27857 o Fixes for security bugs:
27858 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
27859 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
27860 a trusted dirserver.
27862 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
27863 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
27864 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
27865 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
27866 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
27867 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
27868 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
27869 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
27870 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
27871 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
27873 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
27874 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
27875 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
27876 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
27877 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
27878 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
27880 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
27883 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
27884 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
27885 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
27886 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
27887 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
27888 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
27889 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
27890 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
27891 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
27892 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
27893 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
27894 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
27895 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
27896 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
27899 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
27900 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
27901 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
27902 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
27905 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
27906 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
27907 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
27908 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
27909 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
27910 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
27911 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
27915 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
27917 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
27918 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
27919 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
27920 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
27921 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
27922 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
27923 if you decrypted them correctly.
27924 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
27925 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
27926 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
27927 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
27928 in-memory directories too.
27929 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
27930 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
27931 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
27932 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
27933 just close the circ.
27934 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
27935 - Better debugging for tls errors
27936 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
27937 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
27939 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
27940 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
27941 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
27942 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
27943 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
27944 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
27945 it tells you about the first error.
27946 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
27947 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
27948 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
27949 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
27950 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
27951 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
27952 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
27953 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
27954 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
27955 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
27957 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
27958 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
27961 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
27962 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
27964 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
27965 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
27966 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
27967 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
27968 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
27969 expect it to have a nickname.
27970 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
27971 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
27972 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
27973 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
27974 the dns farm to do it.
27975 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
27976 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
27978 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
27979 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
27980 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
27981 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
27982 but that aren't warnings
27985 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
27986 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
27990 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
27991 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
27992 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
27993 - include missing header fcntl.h
27994 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
27995 - deal with hardware word alignment
27996 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
27997 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
27998 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
27999 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
28000 by kill -USR1 currently.
28001 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
28002 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
28003 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
28006 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
28007 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
28008 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
28011 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
28013 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
28014 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
28015 - And fix a few endian issues.
28018 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
28020 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
28021 try that circuit again: try a new one.
28022 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
28023 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
28024 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
28025 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
28026 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
28027 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
28029 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
28030 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
28031 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
28033 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
28035 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
28036 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
28037 side isn't reading right then.
28038 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
28039 RecommendedVersions
28040 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
28041 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
28042 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
28045 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
28047 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
28048 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
28051 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
28055 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
28057 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
28058 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
28059 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
28060 connection is finished.
28061 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
28062 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
28063 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
28064 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
28065 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
28066 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
28067 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
28068 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
28069 rather than warn and continue.
28070 - Make --version work
28071 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
28074 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
28076 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
28077 knows it's working.
28078 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
28079 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
28081 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
28082 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
28083 so you can collect coredumps there.
28085 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
28086 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
28087 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
28088 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
28089 dns cache actually gets populated.
28090 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
28091 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
28092 end cell down it first.
28093 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
28094 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
28097 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
28099 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
28100 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
28102 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
28103 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
28104 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
28105 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
28106 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
28107 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
28109 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
28111 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
28112 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
28113 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
28114 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
28115 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
28116 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
28118 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
28119 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
28122 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
28124 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
28125 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
28126 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
28127 tor. It even has a man page.
28128 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
28129 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
28130 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
28131 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
28133 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
28135 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
28138 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
28140 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
28141 it, apt-getters. :)
28142 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
28143 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
28144 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
28145 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
28146 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
28147 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
28148 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
28149 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
28150 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
28151 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
28152 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
28154 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
28155 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
28158 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
28160 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
28161 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
28164 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
28166 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
28167 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
28168 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
28169 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
28170 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
28171 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
28172 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
28173 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
28174 logfile so you know it's working.
28175 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
28176 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
28179 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
28181 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
28182 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
28183 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
28186 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
28188 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
28189 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
28190 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
28193 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
28194 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
28195 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
28197 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
28198 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
28200 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
28201 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
28202 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
28204 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
28205 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
28209 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
28211 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
28212 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
28213 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
28216 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
28217 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
28218 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
28219 - Add port ranges to exit policies
28220 - Add a conservative default exit policy
28221 - Warn if you're running tor as root
28222 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
28223 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
28224 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
28225 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
28227 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
28230 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
28231 o Robustness and bugfixes:
28232 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
28233 really screw things up.
28234 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
28236 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
28237 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
28239 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
28240 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
28241 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
28242 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
28243 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
28244 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
28247 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
28250 - Change default loglevel to warn.
28251 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
28252 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
28254 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
28257 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
28258 o Robustness and bugfixes:
28259 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
28260 - to get ownership/permissions right
28261 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
28262 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
28263 pull down a directory again
28264 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
28265 causing server crashes
28266 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
28267 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
28268 - exit if bind() fails
28269 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
28270 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
28271 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
28272 - fix minor bias in PRNG
28273 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
28276 - Wrote the design document (woo)
28278 o Circuit building and exit policies:
28279 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
28281 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
28282 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
28283 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
28284 exists, rather than failing
28285 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
28286 which AP connections are standing by
28287 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
28288 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
28289 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
28291 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
28292 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
28295 - APPort is now called SocksPort
28296 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
28298 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
28299 hardcoded (for dirservers)
28300 - Reloads config on HUP
28301 - Usage info on -h or --help
28302 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
28304 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
28305 o General stability:
28306 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
28307 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
28308 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
28309 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
28310 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
28311 to take down the network when I approve a new router
28312 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
28315 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
28316 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
28318 o Autoconf improvements:
28319 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
28320 - Make install now works
28321 - create var/lib/tor on make install
28322 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
28323 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
28325 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
28326 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
28327 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
28328 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup