1 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-??
2 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
3 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
4 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
7 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
8 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
9 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
10 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
11 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
12 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
13 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
14 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
15 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
17 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
18 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
19 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
22 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
23 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
24 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
26 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
27 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
28 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
29 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
30 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
32 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
33 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
34 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
36 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
37 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
38 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
41 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
42 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
43 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
45 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
46 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
47 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
48 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
49 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
50 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
52 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
53 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
54 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
55 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
56 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
57 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
58 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
59 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
60 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
61 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
64 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
65 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
66 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
67 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
68 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
69 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
70 bugfixes on earlier versions.
72 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
73 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
74 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
75 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
77 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
78 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
80 o Directory authority changes:
81 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
84 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
85 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
86 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
87 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
89 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
90 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
91 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
92 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
93 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
94 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
95 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
97 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
98 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
99 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
100 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
102 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
103 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
104 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
105 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
106 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
108 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
109 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
110 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
111 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
112 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
113 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
115 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
116 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
117 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
120 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
121 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
122 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
124 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
125 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
126 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
129 o Testing (continuous integration):
130 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
131 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
132 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
136 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
137 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
138 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
139 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
141 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
142 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
143 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
144 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
145 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
146 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
148 o Minor features (continuous integration):
149 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
150 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
152 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
153 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
154 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
155 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
156 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
158 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
159 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
160 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
162 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
163 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
164 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
166 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
167 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
168 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
169 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
171 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
172 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
173 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
176 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
177 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
178 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
181 o Code simplification and refactoring:
182 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
183 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
187 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
188 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
189 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
191 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
192 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
193 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
194 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
195 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
198 o Minor features (geoip):
199 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
200 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
202 o Minor features (logging):
203 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
204 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
205 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
208 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
209 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
210 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
212 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
213 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
214 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
215 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
216 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
217 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
218 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
220 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
221 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
222 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
223 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
225 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
226 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
227 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
228 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
229 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
232 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
236 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
237 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
238 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
239 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
240 SENDME implementation.
242 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
243 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
244 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
245 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
246 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
247 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
248 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
249 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
250 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
251 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
252 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
254 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
255 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
256 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
257 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
258 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
259 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
261 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
262 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
263 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
264 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
265 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
268 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
269 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
270 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
271 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
272 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
273 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
276 o Minor features (continuous integration):
277 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
278 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
281 o Minor features (maintenance):
282 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
283 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
284 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
286 o Minor features (testing):
287 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
288 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
289 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
290 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
292 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
293 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
294 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
296 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
297 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
298 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
299 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
301 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
302 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
303 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
305 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
306 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
309 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
310 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
311 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
314 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
315 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
316 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
319 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
320 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
321 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
322 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
324 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
325 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
326 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
327 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
330 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
331 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
332 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
333 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
334 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
335 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
338 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
339 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
340 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
341 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
342 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
343 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
345 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
346 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
347 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
348 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
351 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
352 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
353 Resolves issue 29702.
356 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
357 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
358 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
359 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
360 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
361 performance in several areas.
363 o Major features (circuit padding):
364 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
365 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
366 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
367 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
368 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
369 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
370 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
371 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
372 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
374 o Major features (code organization):
375 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
376 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
377 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
378 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
381 o Major features (controller protocol):
382 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
383 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
384 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
387 o Major features (flow control):
388 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
389 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
390 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
391 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
392 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
393 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
394 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
396 o Major features (performance):
397 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
398 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
399 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
401 o Major features (performance, RNG):
402 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
403 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
404 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
405 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
406 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
407 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
408 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
409 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
411 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
412 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
413 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
414 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
415 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
417 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
418 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
419 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
420 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
423 o Minor features (circuit padding):
424 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
426 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
427 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
428 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
429 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
430 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
431 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
432 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
434 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
435 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
436 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
438 o Minor features (continuous integration):
439 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
440 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
442 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
444 o Minor features (controller):
445 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
446 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
447 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
449 o Minor features (debugging):
450 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
451 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
452 can use format strings to include information for trouble
453 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
455 o Minor features (defense in depth):
456 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
457 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
458 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
459 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
460 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
461 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
462 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
463 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
464 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
466 o Minor features (developer tools):
467 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
468 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
469 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
470 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
471 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
473 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
474 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
476 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
477 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
479 o Minor features (geoip):
480 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
481 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
483 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
484 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
485 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
487 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
488 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
489 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
490 addresses. Implements 26992.
492 o Minor features (modularity):
493 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
494 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
496 o Minor features (performance):
497 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
498 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
501 o Minor features (testing):
502 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
503 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
504 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
505 Implements ticket 29732.
506 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
507 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
509 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
510 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
512 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
513 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
514 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
515 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
516 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
517 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
519 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
520 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
521 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
522 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
524 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
525 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
526 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
527 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
528 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
529 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
530 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
531 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
532 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
533 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
534 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
535 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
536 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
537 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
538 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
539 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
540 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
541 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
543 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
544 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
545 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
546 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
548 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
549 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
550 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
551 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
552 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
554 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
555 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
556 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
557 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
559 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
560 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
561 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
562 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
563 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
564 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
566 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
567 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
569 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
570 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
571 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
572 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
573 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
574 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
575 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
578 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
579 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
580 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
583 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
584 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
585 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
586 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
587 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
588 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
589 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
590 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
592 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
593 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
594 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
595 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
596 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
597 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
598 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
600 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
601 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
602 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
603 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
604 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
605 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
607 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
608 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
609 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
610 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
611 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
613 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
614 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
615 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
617 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
618 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
619 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
622 o Minor bugfixes (python):
623 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
624 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
625 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
627 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
628 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
629 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
630 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
631 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
633 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
634 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
635 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
636 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
637 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
639 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
640 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
641 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
642 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
643 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
644 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
645 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
646 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
647 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
648 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
649 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
650 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
651 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
653 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
654 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
655 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
656 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
657 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
659 o Code simplification and refactoring:
660 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
661 port. Implements ticket 30007.
662 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
663 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
664 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
665 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
666 string to directory connection with or without compression.
667 Resolves issue 28816.
668 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
669 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
670 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
671 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
672 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
673 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
674 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
675 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
676 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
677 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
678 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
679 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
680 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
681 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
682 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
683 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
684 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
685 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
686 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
687 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
688 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
689 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
690 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
692 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
693 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
694 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
695 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
698 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
699 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
703 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
704 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
705 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
706 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
709 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
710 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
711 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
712 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
713 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
714 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
715 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
716 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
717 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
718 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
719 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
723 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
724 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
728 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
729 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
730 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
731 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
732 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
733 long-term maintainability.
735 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
736 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
737 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
738 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
740 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
741 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
743 o Minor features (continuous integration):
744 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
745 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
746 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
748 o Minor features (diagnostic):
749 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
750 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
753 o Minor features (testing):
754 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
755 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
758 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
759 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
760 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
762 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
763 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
764 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
765 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
767 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
768 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
769 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
771 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
772 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
773 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
776 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
777 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
778 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
779 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
781 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
782 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
783 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
784 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
785 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
786 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
788 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
789 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
790 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
791 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
792 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
794 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
795 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
796 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
799 o Minor features (circuit padding):
800 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
801 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
802 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
803 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
806 o Minor features (continuous integration):
807 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
808 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
811 o Minor features (dormant mode):
812 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
813 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
814 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
815 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
816 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
817 background. Closes ticket 29357.
819 o Minor features (geoip):
820 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
821 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
823 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
824 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
825 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
826 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
828 o Minor bugfixes (security):
829 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
830 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
831 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
832 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
833 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
834 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
835 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
836 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
838 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
839 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
840 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
841 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
843 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
844 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
845 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
846 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
847 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
849 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
850 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
851 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
853 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
854 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
855 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
858 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
859 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
860 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
863 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
864 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
865 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
867 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
868 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
869 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
871 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
872 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
873 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
874 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
875 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
876 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
879 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
880 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
881 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
882 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
883 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
885 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
886 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
887 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
888 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
889 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
890 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
893 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
894 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
895 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
896 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
897 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
898 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
899 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
900 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
902 o Code simplification and refactoring:
903 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
904 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
905 Resolves issue 28816.
906 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
907 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
910 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
911 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
914 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
915 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
916 bugs from earlier versions.
918 o Minor features (address selection):
919 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
920 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
921 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
922 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
923 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
924 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
925 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
927 o Minor features (geoip):
928 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
929 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
931 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
932 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
933 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
934 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
936 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
937 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
938 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
939 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
940 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
941 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
942 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
943 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
944 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
945 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
946 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
948 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
949 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
950 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
951 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
953 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
954 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
955 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
957 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
958 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
959 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
962 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
963 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
964 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
966 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
967 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
968 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
969 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
970 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
971 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
972 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
974 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
975 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
976 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
979 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
980 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
981 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
982 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
983 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
984 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
985 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
986 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
987 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
988 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
990 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
991 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
992 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
993 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
994 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
995 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
998 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
999 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
1000 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
1003 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
1004 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
1005 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
1007 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
1008 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
1009 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
1010 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
1011 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
1012 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
1013 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
1014 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
1016 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1017 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
1018 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
1019 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
1020 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1022 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1023 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
1024 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
1025 Patches from "Mangix".
1027 o Minor features (geoip):
1028 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1029 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
1031 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1032 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
1035 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
1036 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
1037 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
1038 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
1039 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
1040 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
1042 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
1043 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
1044 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
1045 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
1048 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1049 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
1050 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
1051 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1053 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
1054 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
1055 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
1058 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
1059 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
1060 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
1061 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1063 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1064 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
1065 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
1066 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
1068 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
1069 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
1070 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
1071 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
1072 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
1073 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
1075 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1076 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
1077 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
1078 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
1079 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1081 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1082 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
1083 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
1084 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
1085 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1087 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1088 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
1089 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
1091 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
1092 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
1093 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
1095 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
1096 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
1097 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
1098 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
1100 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
1101 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
1102 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
1104 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1105 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
1106 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1107 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
1108 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
1111 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
1112 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
1113 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
1114 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
1115 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1118 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
1119 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
1120 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
1121 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
1122 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
1124 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
1125 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
1126 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
1127 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
1128 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
1129 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
1130 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
1131 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
1133 o Minor features (geoip):
1134 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1135 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
1137 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1138 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
1139 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
1140 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1142 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1143 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
1144 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
1145 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
1146 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
1149 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
1150 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
1151 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
1152 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
1154 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
1155 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
1156 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
1157 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
1159 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
1160 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
1161 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
1162 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
1163 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
1164 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
1165 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
1166 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
1168 o Minor features (geoip):
1169 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1170 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
1172 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1173 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
1174 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
1175 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1177 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
1178 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
1179 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
1180 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
1181 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
1184 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
1185 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
1186 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
1187 backward compatibility.
1189 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
1190 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
1191 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
1193 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
1194 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
1195 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
1196 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
1197 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
1198 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
1199 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
1200 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
1202 o Major bugfixes (networking):
1203 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
1204 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
1205 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
1206 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1208 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
1209 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
1210 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
1211 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
1212 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
1213 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
1214 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1216 o Minor features (compilation):
1217 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
1218 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
1219 Patches from "Mangix".
1221 o Minor features (developer tooling):
1222 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
1223 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
1224 release. Closes ticket 27761.
1225 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
1226 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
1227 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
1230 o Minor features (directory authority):
1231 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
1232 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
1233 Closes ticket 26698.
1235 o Minor features (geoip):
1236 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1237 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
1239 o Minor features (testing):
1240 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
1243 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
1244 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
1245 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
1246 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1248 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1249 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
1250 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1251 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
1252 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1254 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
1255 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
1256 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
1257 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
1259 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
1260 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
1261 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
1263 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1264 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
1265 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1266 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
1267 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
1268 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
1269 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1271 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
1272 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
1273 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
1274 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
1275 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1277 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1278 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
1279 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
1281 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
1282 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
1283 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
1285 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
1286 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
1287 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
1288 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
1290 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
1291 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
1292 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
1293 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
1294 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
1297 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1298 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
1299 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1300 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
1301 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
1302 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
1303 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1304 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
1305 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1306 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
1307 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
1311 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
1312 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
1313 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
1316 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
1319 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
1320 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
1321 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
1322 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
1323 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
1324 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
1327 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
1328 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
1329 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
1330 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
1331 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
1332 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
1334 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
1335 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
1337 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
1338 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
1341 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
1342 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
1343 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
1344 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
1345 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
1346 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
1347 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
1348 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
1349 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
1352 o Major features (circuit padding):
1353 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
1354 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
1355 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
1356 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
1357 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
1358 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
1359 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
1360 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
1363 o Major features (refactoring):
1364 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
1365 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
1366 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
1367 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
1370 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
1371 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
1372 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
1373 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
1374 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
1377 o Minor features (continuous integration):
1378 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
1381 o Minor features (controller):
1382 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
1383 Implements ticket 28843.
1385 o Minor features (developer tooling):
1386 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
1387 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
1388 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
1390 o Minor features (directory authority):
1391 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
1392 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
1393 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
1394 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
1397 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
1398 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
1399 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
1400 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
1401 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
1402 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
1403 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
1405 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
1406 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
1407 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
1409 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
1410 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
1411 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
1412 Closes ticket 28518.
1414 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
1415 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
1416 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
1417 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
1419 o Minor features (IPv6):
1420 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
1421 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
1422 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
1423 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
1424 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
1425 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1426 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
1427 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
1428 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
1429 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1431 o Minor features (log messages):
1432 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
1433 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
1436 o Minor features (memory usage):
1437 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
1438 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
1439 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
1440 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
1441 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
1443 o Minor features (parsing):
1444 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
1445 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
1446 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
1448 o Minor features (performance):
1449 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
1450 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
1451 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
1452 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
1454 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
1455 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
1456 Closes ticket 28852.
1457 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
1458 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
1459 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
1460 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
1461 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
1462 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
1464 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
1465 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
1466 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
1467 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
1468 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
1470 o Minor features (process management):
1471 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
1472 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
1473 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
1474 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
1475 module. Closes ticket 28847.
1477 o Minor features (relay):
1478 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
1479 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
1480 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
1482 o Minor features (required protocols):
1483 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
1484 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
1485 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
1486 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
1487 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
1488 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
1489 297; closes ticket 27735.
1491 o Minor features (testing):
1492 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
1493 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
1495 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
1496 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
1497 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1498 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
1499 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
1502 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1503 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
1504 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
1505 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
1507 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
1508 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
1509 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
1511 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
1512 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
1513 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
1514 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1516 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
1517 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
1518 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
1519 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
1520 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
1522 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
1523 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
1524 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
1525 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
1526 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
1527 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
1528 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1530 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
1531 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
1532 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
1533 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
1536 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1537 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
1538 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
1539 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
1540 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
1541 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
1543 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
1544 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
1545 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
1546 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1548 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
1549 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
1550 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
1551 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
1552 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
1553 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
1555 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
1556 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
1557 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
1558 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1560 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
1561 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
1562 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
1563 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
1564 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1566 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
1567 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
1568 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
1569 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
1570 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1572 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1573 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
1574 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
1575 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
1576 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1578 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1579 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
1580 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
1581 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
1583 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
1584 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
1585 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
1586 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
1587 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
1588 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
1589 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
1590 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
1594 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
1595 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
1596 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
1597 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
1599 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
1602 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
1603 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
1604 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
1605 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
1606 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
1607 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
1608 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
1611 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
1613 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
1614 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
1616 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
1617 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
1618 code from client and service into one function. Closes
1621 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
1622 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
1624 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
1625 Resolves ticket 28006.
1626 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
1627 Resolves ticket 28012.
1628 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
1629 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
1630 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
1631 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
1635 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
1636 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
1637 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
1638 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
1639 to this version, or to a later series.
1641 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
1642 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
1643 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
1644 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
1645 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
1646 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
1648 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1649 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
1650 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
1651 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
1652 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
1655 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1656 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
1657 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
1658 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1660 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1661 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
1662 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
1663 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
1664 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
1665 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
1666 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
1667 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
1669 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1670 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
1671 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
1672 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
1674 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1675 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
1676 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
1677 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
1678 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
1680 o Minor features (geoip):
1681 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1682 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
1684 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
1685 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
1686 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
1687 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
1688 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
1689 Closes ticket 28973.
1691 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
1692 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
1693 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
1694 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
1696 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1697 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
1698 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
1701 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1702 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
1703 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
1705 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1706 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
1707 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
1708 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1710 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1711 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
1712 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
1713 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1715 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1716 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
1717 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
1718 were the same, the default setting (0) for
1719 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
1720 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
1723 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1724 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
1725 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
1728 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
1729 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
1730 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
1731 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
1732 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1734 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1735 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
1736 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
1737 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
1738 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1740 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1741 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
1742 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
1743 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
1744 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
1745 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1747 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
1748 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
1749 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
1752 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1753 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
1754 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
1756 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1757 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
1758 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1760 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1761 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
1762 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
1765 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1766 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
1767 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
1768 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
1769 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
1770 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1771 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
1772 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1774 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
1775 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
1776 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
1777 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1779 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1780 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
1781 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1782 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
1783 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
1784 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1785 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
1786 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
1787 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
1788 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
1790 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1791 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
1792 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
1793 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
1794 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
1795 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
1797 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
1798 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
1799 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
1800 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
1801 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1803 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1804 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
1805 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1808 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
1809 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
1810 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
1811 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
1814 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
1815 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
1816 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
1819 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1820 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
1821 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
1822 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
1823 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
1826 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
1827 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
1828 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
1829 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
1830 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
1831 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
1832 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
1834 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1835 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
1836 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
1839 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
1840 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
1841 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
1842 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
1843 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
1846 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1847 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
1848 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
1849 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
1850 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
1852 o Minor features (geoip):
1853 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
1854 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
1856 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
1857 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
1858 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
1859 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
1860 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
1861 Closes ticket 28973.
1863 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1864 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
1865 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
1866 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1868 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1869 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
1870 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
1871 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
1872 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
1875 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1876 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
1877 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
1878 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
1880 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
1881 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
1882 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
1884 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1885 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
1886 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
1887 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
1889 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1890 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
1891 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
1892 were the same, the default setting (0) for
1893 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
1894 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
1897 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
1898 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
1899 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
1901 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
1902 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
1903 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
1904 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
1905 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1907 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1908 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
1909 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
1910 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
1911 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
1912 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1914 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
1915 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
1916 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
1917 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
1919 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
1920 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
1921 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1924 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
1925 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
1926 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
1927 affecting directory caches.
1929 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
1930 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
1931 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
1932 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
1933 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
1934 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
1935 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
1936 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
1938 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
1939 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
1940 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
1941 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
1942 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
1943 so it will recognize them.
1945 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
1946 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
1947 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
1948 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
1949 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
1950 with the latest stable release.)
1952 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
1953 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1955 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
1956 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
1957 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
1958 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
1959 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
1960 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
1961 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
1963 o Minor features (compilation):
1964 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
1965 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
1967 o Minor features (geoip):
1968 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
1969 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
1971 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
1972 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
1973 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
1974 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
1975 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
1976 Closes ticket 28973.
1978 o Minor features (performance):
1979 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
1980 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
1981 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
1982 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
1983 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
1984 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
1985 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
1986 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
1987 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
1988 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
1990 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1991 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
1992 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1994 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
1995 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
1996 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
1997 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
1998 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
2000 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2001 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
2002 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
2003 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2004 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
2005 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
2006 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2008 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
2009 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
2010 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
2012 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2013 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
2014 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
2018 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
2019 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
2020 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
2021 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
2023 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
2024 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
2025 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
2028 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
2029 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
2030 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
2031 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
2032 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
2034 o Minor features (geoip):
2035 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2036 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
2038 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2039 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
2040 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2042 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
2043 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
2044 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
2045 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
2047 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2048 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
2049 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
2050 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
2051 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
2052 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2054 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
2055 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
2056 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
2059 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2060 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
2061 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
2062 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2063 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
2064 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
2065 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2067 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
2068 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
2069 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
2070 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
2071 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
2072 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
2073 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
2074 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
2076 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
2077 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
2078 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
2079 reported by Keifer Bly.
2082 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
2083 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
2085 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
2086 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
2087 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
2088 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
2089 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
2090 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
2091 Closes ticket 19566.
2093 o Documentation (onion services):
2094 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
2095 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
2096 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
2097 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
2098 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
2099 process. Closes ticket 28275.
2102 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
2103 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
2104 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
2107 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
2108 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
2109 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
2110 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
2111 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
2114 o Minor features (geoip):
2115 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2116 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
2118 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2119 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
2120 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
2121 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2123 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
2124 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
2125 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
2126 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
2127 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
2130 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
2131 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
2132 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
2133 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
2135 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
2136 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
2137 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2139 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2140 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
2141 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2143 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2144 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
2145 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
2148 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2149 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
2150 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
2153 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
2154 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
2155 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
2157 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2158 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
2159 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
2160 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
2161 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
2162 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
2163 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
2164 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
2165 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
2166 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2169 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
2170 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
2171 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
2172 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
2173 acceptable long-term-support release.
2175 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
2176 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
2177 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
2178 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
2179 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
2180 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2182 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
2183 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
2184 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
2185 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
2186 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2188 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2189 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
2191 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
2192 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
2194 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
2195 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
2196 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
2198 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
2199 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
2200 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
2203 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2204 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
2205 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
2207 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
2208 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
2209 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
2212 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2213 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
2214 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
2217 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
2218 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
2219 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
2220 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2222 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2223 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
2224 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
2225 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
2228 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
2229 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
2230 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
2231 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2233 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2234 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
2235 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
2236 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
2237 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
2238 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
2239 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2241 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2242 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
2243 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
2246 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
2247 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
2250 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
2251 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
2252 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
2253 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
2254 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2256 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
2257 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
2258 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2259 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
2260 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
2261 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2263 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
2264 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
2265 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
2266 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
2267 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
2269 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2270 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
2271 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2273 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
2274 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
2275 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
2276 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
2277 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2279 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
2280 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
2281 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
2284 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
2285 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
2286 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
2287 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
2288 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
2290 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2291 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
2292 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2294 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2295 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
2296 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
2297 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
2298 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2300 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2301 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
2302 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
2303 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
2304 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
2307 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2308 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
2309 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
2310 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2312 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2313 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
2314 Implements ticket 27252.
2315 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
2316 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
2317 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
2318 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
2319 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
2320 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
2321 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
2323 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2324 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
2325 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
2326 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
2328 o Minor features (geoip):
2329 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2330 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
2332 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
2333 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
2334 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
2335 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
2336 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
2338 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
2339 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
2340 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2341 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
2342 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
2345 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2346 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
2347 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
2350 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2351 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
2352 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
2353 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
2354 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2356 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2357 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
2358 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
2360 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2361 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
2362 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2364 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2365 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
2366 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
2367 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2369 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2370 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
2371 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2373 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2374 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
2375 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
2378 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2379 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
2380 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2382 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2383 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
2384 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
2387 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
2388 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
2389 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
2390 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
2391 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2393 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2394 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
2395 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
2396 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
2397 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
2398 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2400 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2401 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
2402 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
2405 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2406 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
2407 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
2408 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
2409 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
2410 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2411 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
2412 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2414 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
2415 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
2416 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
2417 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2419 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2420 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
2421 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
2422 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
2423 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
2425 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2426 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
2427 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2428 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
2429 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
2430 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2432 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
2433 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
2434 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
2435 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
2436 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
2437 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
2439 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
2440 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
2441 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
2442 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
2445 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
2446 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
2447 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
2448 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
2449 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2452 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
2453 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
2454 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
2455 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
2456 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
2457 getting closer and closer to stability.
2459 o Major features (onion services):
2460 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
2461 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
2462 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
2463 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
2464 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
2466 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
2467 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
2468 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2470 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
2471 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
2472 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
2473 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2475 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
2476 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
2477 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
2478 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
2479 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2481 o Major bugfixes (relay):
2482 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
2483 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
2484 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
2485 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
2488 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2489 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
2490 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
2491 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
2492 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
2493 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
2496 o Minor features (geoip):
2497 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2498 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
2500 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
2501 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
2502 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
2505 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2506 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
2507 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
2508 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
2509 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
2510 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
2513 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
2514 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
2517 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
2518 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
2519 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
2520 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
2521 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2523 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
2524 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
2525 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
2526 were the same, the default setting (0) for
2527 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
2528 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
2531 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
2532 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
2533 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2535 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
2536 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
2537 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
2539 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
2540 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
2541 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2543 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2544 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
2545 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
2547 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
2548 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
2549 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
2550 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2551 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
2552 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
2553 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
2554 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
2555 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2557 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
2558 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
2559 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
2562 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2563 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
2564 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
2565 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
2567 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
2568 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2570 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2571 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
2572 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
2573 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
2574 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
2575 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
2576 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
2577 Closes ticket 27814.
2578 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
2579 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
2580 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
2581 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
2582 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
2583 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
2586 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
2587 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
2588 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
2589 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
2592 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
2593 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
2594 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
2595 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
2597 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
2598 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
2599 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
2600 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
2601 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
2602 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
2604 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
2605 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
2606 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
2607 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
2608 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
2611 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
2612 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
2613 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
2614 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
2615 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
2617 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
2618 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
2619 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2620 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
2621 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
2624 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2625 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
2626 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
2627 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
2628 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2630 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
2631 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
2632 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
2633 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
2635 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
2636 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
2637 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
2640 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
2641 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
2642 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
2643 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2645 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2646 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
2647 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
2648 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2650 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2651 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
2652 Closes ticket 27799.
2655 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
2656 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
2657 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
2658 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
2659 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
2661 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
2662 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
2663 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
2664 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
2665 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
2666 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
2668 o Major features (relay, UI change):
2669 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
2670 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
2671 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
2672 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
2673 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2674 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
2675 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
2677 o Major features (bootstrap):
2678 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
2679 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
2680 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
2681 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
2683 o Major features (new code layout):
2684 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
2685 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
2686 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
2687 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
2688 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
2689 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
2690 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
2692 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
2693 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
2694 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
2696 o Major features (onion services v3):
2697 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
2698 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
2699 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
2700 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
2701 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
2702 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
2703 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
2704 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
2705 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
2706 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
2707 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
2708 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
2709 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
2711 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
2712 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
2713 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
2714 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
2715 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
2716 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
2717 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
2719 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
2720 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
2721 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
2722 (if present), and restart Tor.
2724 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
2725 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
2726 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
2727 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
2730 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
2731 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
2732 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
2733 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2735 o Minor features (admin tools):
2736 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
2737 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
2740 o Minor features (build):
2741 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
2742 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
2743 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
2744 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
2746 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
2747 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
2748 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
2749 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
2750 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
2752 o Minor features (code layout):
2753 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
2754 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
2755 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
2756 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
2759 o Minor features (compilation):
2760 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
2761 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
2762 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
2763 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
2766 o Minor features (config):
2767 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
2770 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2771 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
2772 Implements ticket 27252.
2773 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
2774 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
2775 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
2776 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
2777 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
2778 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
2779 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
2780 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
2781 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
2783 o Minor features (controller):
2784 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
2785 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
2786 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
2787 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
2788 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
2789 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
2790 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
2791 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
2793 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
2794 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
2795 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
2796 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
2798 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
2799 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
2800 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
2801 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2803 o Minor features (development):
2804 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
2805 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
2807 o Minor features (directory authority):
2808 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
2809 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
2810 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
2811 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
2813 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
2814 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
2817 o Minor features (embedding API):
2818 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
2819 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
2820 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
2821 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
2822 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
2823 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
2826 o Minor features (geoip):
2827 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
2828 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
2830 o Minor features (memory management):
2831 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
2832 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
2835 o Minor features (memory usage):
2836 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
2837 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
2838 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
2840 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
2841 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
2842 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
2844 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
2845 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
2846 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
2847 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
2849 o Minor features (testing):
2850 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
2851 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
2853 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
2854 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
2855 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
2857 o Minor features (UI):
2858 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
2859 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
2860 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
2861 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
2862 Closes ticket 26703.
2864 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
2865 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
2866 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
2867 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2869 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
2870 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
2871 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
2872 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
2873 - Use time_t for all values in
2874 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
2875 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
2876 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2878 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
2879 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
2880 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
2881 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
2882 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
2885 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
2886 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
2887 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
2888 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
2889 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
2890 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2892 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
2893 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
2894 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
2895 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
2897 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
2898 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
2899 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
2900 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
2901 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
2903 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
2904 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
2905 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2907 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2908 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
2909 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
2910 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
2911 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
2914 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
2915 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
2916 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
2918 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
2919 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
2920 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
2923 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2924 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
2925 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
2926 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
2927 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2929 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2930 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
2931 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
2932 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
2933 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
2934 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
2935 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
2937 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
2938 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
2939 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
2940 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
2941 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2943 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
2944 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
2945 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2947 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
2948 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
2949 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
2950 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
2953 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
2954 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
2955 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
2958 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
2959 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
2960 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
2961 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
2962 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
2964 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
2965 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
2966 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
2967 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
2969 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
2970 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
2971 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
2972 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
2974 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
2975 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
2976 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
2977 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
2978 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
2979 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
2980 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2981 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
2982 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
2983 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2985 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
2986 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
2987 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
2988 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
2989 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
2990 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2991 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
2992 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2994 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2995 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
2996 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2997 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
2998 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
2999 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
3000 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
3001 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
3002 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
3003 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
3004 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3005 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
3006 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
3008 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3009 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
3010 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
3011 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
3012 directory within the top-level src directory.
3013 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
3014 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
3015 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
3016 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
3017 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
3018 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
3019 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
3020 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
3021 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
3022 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
3023 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
3024 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
3025 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
3026 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
3027 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
3028 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
3029 Closes ticket 21349.
3030 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
3031 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
3032 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
3033 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
3034 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
3035 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
3036 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
3038 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
3039 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
3040 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
3043 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
3044 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
3045 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
3046 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
3047 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
3050 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
3051 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
3052 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
3053 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
3054 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
3055 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
3056 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
3057 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
3058 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
3059 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
3060 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
3061 Closes ticket 26367.
3064 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
3065 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
3067 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3068 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
3069 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
3070 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
3072 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3073 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
3075 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
3076 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
3077 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
3078 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
3080 o Minor features (geoip):
3081 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3082 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
3084 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3085 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
3086 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
3087 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3089 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3090 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
3091 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
3092 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
3093 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3094 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
3095 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
3096 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
3099 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3100 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
3101 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
3102 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3104 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3105 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
3106 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
3107 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
3109 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3110 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
3111 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
3112 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3114 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3115 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
3116 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
3117 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
3118 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
3120 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3121 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
3122 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
3125 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3126 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
3127 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
3128 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
3129 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
3131 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3132 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
3133 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
3136 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3137 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
3138 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
3139 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3141 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3142 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
3143 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3145 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3146 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
3147 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
3150 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3151 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
3152 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
3153 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
3154 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3156 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3157 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
3158 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3161 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
3162 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
3164 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3165 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
3166 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
3167 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
3169 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3170 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
3172 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
3173 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
3174 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
3175 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
3177 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3178 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
3181 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3182 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
3183 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
3184 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
3186 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3187 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
3188 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
3189 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
3191 o Minor features (geoip):
3192 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3193 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
3195 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3196 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
3197 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
3198 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3199 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
3200 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
3201 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
3203 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3204 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
3205 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
3206 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
3207 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3208 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
3209 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
3210 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
3213 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3214 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
3215 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
3216 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3218 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3219 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
3220 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
3221 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
3223 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3224 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3225 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
3226 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
3227 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3229 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3230 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
3231 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
3232 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
3233 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
3235 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3236 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
3237 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
3240 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3241 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
3242 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
3243 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
3244 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
3246 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3247 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
3248 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
3251 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3252 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
3253 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
3256 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3257 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
3258 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
3261 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3262 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
3264 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
3265 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
3266 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
3267 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3269 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3270 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
3271 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
3272 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3274 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3275 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
3276 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3278 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3279 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
3280 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
3281 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
3282 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3283 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
3284 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
3287 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
3288 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
3289 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
3290 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
3291 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3293 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3294 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
3295 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
3296 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
3297 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3299 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3300 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
3301 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3304 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
3305 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
3307 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3308 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
3309 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
3310 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
3312 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3313 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
3314 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
3315 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
3317 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3318 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
3319 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
3321 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
3322 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
3323 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
3324 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
3326 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3327 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
3330 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3331 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
3332 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
3333 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
3335 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3336 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
3337 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
3338 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
3340 o Minor features (geoip):
3341 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3342 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
3344 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3345 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
3346 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
3347 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3348 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
3349 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
3350 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
3352 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3353 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
3354 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
3355 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
3356 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3357 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
3358 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
3359 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
3362 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3363 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
3364 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
3365 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3367 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3368 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
3369 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
3370 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
3372 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3373 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3374 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
3375 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
3376 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3378 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3379 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
3380 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
3381 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
3382 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
3384 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3385 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
3386 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
3389 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3390 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
3391 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
3392 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3394 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3395 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
3396 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
3397 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
3398 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
3400 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3401 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
3402 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
3405 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3406 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
3407 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
3410 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3411 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
3412 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
3415 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3416 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
3417 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
3418 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3420 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3421 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
3422 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
3425 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3426 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
3428 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
3429 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
3430 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
3431 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
3432 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
3433 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
3434 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
3436 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
3437 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3438 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
3439 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
3440 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3442 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3443 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
3444 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
3445 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3447 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3448 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
3449 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3451 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
3452 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
3453 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
3454 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
3455 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3456 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
3457 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
3460 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3461 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
3462 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
3463 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
3464 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3466 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
3467 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
3468 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
3469 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
3470 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
3472 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
3473 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
3474 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3477 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
3478 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
3479 compilation and portability fixes.
3481 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
3482 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
3483 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
3484 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
3485 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
3486 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
3487 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
3488 our anti-denial-of-service code.
3490 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
3491 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3493 o Minor features (compatibility):
3494 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
3495 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
3496 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
3498 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3499 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
3500 Implements ticket 27449.
3501 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
3502 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
3505 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3506 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
3507 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
3508 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
3509 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3510 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
3511 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
3512 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
3515 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3516 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
3517 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
3518 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
3519 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
3520 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3521 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
3522 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
3523 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
3524 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
3526 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3527 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
3528 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
3531 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
3532 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
3533 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
3534 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
3535 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3536 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
3537 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
3540 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
3541 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
3542 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
3543 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
3544 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
3546 o Minor features (bug workaround):
3547 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
3548 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
3549 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
3551 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3552 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
3553 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
3555 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
3556 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
3557 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
3558 Implements ticket 27275.
3559 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
3560 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
3562 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
3563 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
3566 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3567 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
3568 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
3569 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
3571 o Minor features (geoip):
3572 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3573 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
3575 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
3576 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
3577 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
3578 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3580 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3581 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
3582 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
3583 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
3584 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3585 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
3586 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
3587 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3589 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
3590 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
3591 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
3592 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3594 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3595 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
3596 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
3597 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
3598 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
3600 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3601 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
3602 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
3605 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3606 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
3607 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
3610 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
3611 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
3613 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
3614 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
3615 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
3616 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
3617 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
3618 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
3619 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
3621 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
3622 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
3623 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
3624 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
3625 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3627 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
3628 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
3629 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
3630 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
3631 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3633 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
3634 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
3635 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
3636 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
3637 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3639 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
3640 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
3641 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
3644 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
3645 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
3646 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
3647 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
3648 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
3650 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
3651 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
3652 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
3653 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
3654 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
3655 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3657 o Minor features (compilation):
3658 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
3659 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
3661 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
3662 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
3663 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3664 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
3665 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
3666 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
3668 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3669 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
3670 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
3671 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
3673 o Minor features (controller):
3674 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
3675 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
3676 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
3678 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
3679 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
3680 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
3683 o Minor features (geoip):
3684 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3685 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
3687 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
3688 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
3690 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3691 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
3692 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
3693 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
3694 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
3695 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
3696 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3698 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3699 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
3700 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3701 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
3702 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
3703 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
3705 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
3706 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
3707 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
3710 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
3711 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
3712 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
3714 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3715 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
3716 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
3719 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3720 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
3721 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3722 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
3723 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
3724 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3726 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
3727 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
3728 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
3729 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3731 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3732 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
3733 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
3735 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
3736 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
3737 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
3738 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
3739 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
3740 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
3742 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3743 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
3744 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
3745 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
3746 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
3749 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
3750 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
3751 bridge relays should upgrade.
3753 o Directory authority changes:
3754 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
3755 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
3756 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
3759 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
3760 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
3761 bridge relays should upgrade.
3763 o Directory authority changes:
3764 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
3765 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
3766 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
3769 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
3770 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
3771 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
3774 o Directory authority changes:
3775 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
3776 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
3777 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
3779 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
3780 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
3781 Closes ticket 26343.
3783 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3784 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
3785 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
3786 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
3787 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3789 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3790 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
3791 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
3793 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3794 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
3795 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
3796 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
3798 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
3799 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
3800 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
3802 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3803 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
3804 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
3805 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
3806 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
3807 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
3809 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3810 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
3811 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
3812 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
3814 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3815 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
3816 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
3819 o Minor features (geoip):
3820 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3821 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
3823 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3824 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
3825 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
3826 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
3827 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3829 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3830 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
3831 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3833 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3834 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
3835 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
3836 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
3837 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3838 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
3839 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
3840 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
3843 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3844 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
3845 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
3846 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
3847 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
3848 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3850 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
3851 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
3852 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
3853 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
3854 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
3856 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3857 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
3858 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
3859 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
3860 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3862 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3863 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
3864 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
3867 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3868 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
3869 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3871 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3872 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
3873 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
3874 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
3876 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3877 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
3878 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3879 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
3880 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
3881 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
3882 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3884 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
3885 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
3886 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
3887 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
3890 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3891 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
3892 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3894 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3895 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
3896 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3898 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3899 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
3900 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
3901 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
3904 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3905 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
3906 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
3907 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
3909 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3910 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
3911 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
3913 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
3914 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
3915 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
3918 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
3919 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
3920 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
3923 o Directory authority changes:
3924 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
3925 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
3926 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
3928 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
3929 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
3930 Closes ticket 26343.
3932 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3933 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
3934 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
3935 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
3936 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3938 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3939 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
3940 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
3941 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
3943 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3944 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
3945 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
3946 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
3947 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
3948 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
3950 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3951 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
3952 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
3955 o Minor features (geoip):
3956 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
3957 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
3959 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3960 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
3961 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
3962 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
3963 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3965 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3966 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
3967 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3969 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3970 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
3971 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
3972 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
3975 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3976 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
3977 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
3978 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
3979 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
3980 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
3982 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
3983 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
3984 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
3985 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
3986 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
3988 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
3989 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
3990 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
3993 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
3994 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
3995 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3997 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
3998 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
3999 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
4000 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
4002 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
4003 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
4004 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
4006 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
4007 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
4008 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
4011 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
4012 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
4013 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
4014 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
4015 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
4017 o Minor features (compilation):
4018 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
4019 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
4022 o Minor features (geoip):
4023 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4024 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
4026 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
4027 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
4029 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4030 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
4031 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
4032 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
4033 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4035 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
4036 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
4037 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4038 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
4039 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
4040 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
4042 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
4043 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
4044 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
4047 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
4048 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
4049 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
4051 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
4052 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
4053 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
4054 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
4055 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4056 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
4057 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
4058 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
4062 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
4063 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
4064 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
4066 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
4067 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
4068 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
4069 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
4071 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
4072 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
4073 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
4076 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
4077 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
4078 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
4081 o Minor features (geoip):
4082 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4083 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
4085 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
4086 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
4087 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
4088 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
4090 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4091 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
4092 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
4093 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
4094 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
4097 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
4098 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
4099 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
4100 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
4101 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
4103 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
4104 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
4105 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
4106 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
4108 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
4109 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
4110 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
4112 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
4113 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
4114 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
4115 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
4118 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4119 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
4120 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
4121 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4123 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
4124 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
4125 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
4126 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
4127 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4128 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
4129 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
4130 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
4134 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
4135 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
4136 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
4138 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4139 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
4140 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
4141 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
4143 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
4144 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
4145 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
4148 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
4149 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
4150 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
4151 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
4153 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
4154 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
4155 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
4156 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
4158 o Minor features (unit tests):
4159 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
4160 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
4161 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
4164 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4165 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
4166 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
4167 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4168 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
4169 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
4170 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4171 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
4172 Closes ticket 26245.
4174 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4175 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
4176 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
4177 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
4178 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
4179 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4181 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4182 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
4183 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
4184 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
4187 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4188 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
4189 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4190 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
4191 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
4192 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
4193 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
4194 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
4195 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4196 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
4197 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
4198 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
4199 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
4200 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4203 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
4204 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
4205 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
4207 o Directory authority changes:
4208 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
4209 Closes ticket 26343.
4211 o Minor features (geoip):
4212 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4213 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
4215 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
4216 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
4217 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
4218 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
4219 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
4220 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
4222 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
4223 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
4224 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4226 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
4227 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
4228 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
4229 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
4230 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4232 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
4233 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
4234 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4236 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4237 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
4238 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
4239 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
4240 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
4241 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4244 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
4245 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
4246 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
4248 o Directory authority changes:
4249 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
4250 Closes ticket 26343.
4252 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
4253 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
4254 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
4255 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
4256 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
4258 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4259 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
4260 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
4261 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
4263 o Minor features (geoip):
4264 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4265 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
4267 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
4268 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
4269 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
4270 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
4271 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
4272 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
4274 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4275 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
4276 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4277 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
4278 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4279 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
4280 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
4281 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4283 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
4284 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
4285 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
4286 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
4289 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4290 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
4291 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
4292 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
4293 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4295 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
4296 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
4297 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4299 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4300 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
4301 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4303 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
4304 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
4305 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
4306 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
4310 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
4311 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
4312 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4314 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
4315 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
4316 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
4317 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
4318 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
4319 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
4321 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
4322 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4324 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4325 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
4326 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
4327 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
4328 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4330 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
4331 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
4332 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
4333 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
4334 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
4336 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4337 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
4338 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
4339 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4341 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4342 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
4343 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
4344 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4346 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4347 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
4348 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
4350 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4351 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
4352 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
4355 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4356 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
4357 Closes ticket 26006.
4359 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4360 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
4361 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
4362 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
4363 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
4364 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
4366 o Minor features (geoip):
4367 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
4368 database. Closes ticket 26104.
4370 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4371 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
4372 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
4375 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4376 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
4377 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
4378 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
4379 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4381 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4382 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
4383 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
4384 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
4385 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
4388 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4389 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
4390 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4392 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4393 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
4394 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4395 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
4396 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
4397 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
4398 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4400 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4401 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
4402 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4404 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
4405 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
4406 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
4409 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
4410 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
4411 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
4412 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
4413 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
4414 other small features and bugfixes.
4416 o New system requirements:
4417 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
4418 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
4419 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
4420 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
4422 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
4423 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
4424 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
4425 To disable the module, the configure option
4426 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
4427 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
4429 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
4430 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
4431 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
4432 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
4433 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
4434 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
4435 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
4436 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
4437 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
4438 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
4439 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
4441 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
4442 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
4443 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
4444 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
4445 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
4446 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
4447 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
4448 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
4449 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
4450 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
4451 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
4452 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
4453 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
4454 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
4455 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
4456 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
4457 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
4458 Tor's uptime (26009).
4460 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
4461 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
4462 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
4463 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
4464 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4466 o Major bugfixes (crash):
4467 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
4468 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
4469 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
4471 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4472 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
4473 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
4474 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4476 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
4477 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
4478 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
4480 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
4481 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
4482 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
4483 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
4484 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
4485 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
4486 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
4487 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
4488 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
4489 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
4490 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
4491 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
4492 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
4493 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4495 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
4496 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
4497 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
4500 o Minor features (accounting):
4501 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
4502 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
4503 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
4504 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
4506 o Minor features (code quality):
4507 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
4508 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
4509 Closes ticket 25024.
4511 o Minor features (compatibility):
4512 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
4513 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
4514 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
4515 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
4516 Closes ticket 26006.
4518 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
4519 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
4520 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
4521 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
4522 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
4523 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
4525 o Minor features (configuration):
4526 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
4527 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
4528 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
4529 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
4530 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
4532 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4533 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
4534 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
4535 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
4536 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
4537 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
4539 o Minor features (control port):
4540 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
4541 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
4542 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
4543 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4544 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
4545 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
4546 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
4547 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
4548 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
4549 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
4551 o Minor features (directory authority):
4552 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
4553 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
4554 Closes ticket 23909.
4556 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
4557 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
4558 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
4559 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
4561 o Minor features (entry guards):
4562 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
4563 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
4565 o Minor features (geoip):
4566 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
4567 database. Closes ticket 26104.
4569 o Minor features (performance):
4570 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
4571 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
4572 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
4573 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
4575 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
4576 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
4578 o Minor features (testing):
4579 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
4580 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
4582 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
4583 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
4584 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
4585 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
4586 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
4587 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
4589 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
4590 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
4591 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
4592 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
4593 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
4595 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
4596 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
4597 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
4598 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
4599 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
4600 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
4602 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
4603 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
4604 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
4605 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
4607 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
4608 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
4609 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
4610 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
4611 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
4614 o Minor bugfixes (client):
4615 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
4616 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
4619 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
4620 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
4621 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4622 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
4623 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
4625 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
4626 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
4627 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
4628 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
4629 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4631 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4632 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
4633 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
4634 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
4635 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4637 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
4638 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
4639 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
4640 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
4641 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4643 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
4644 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
4645 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4646 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
4647 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
4648 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
4651 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4652 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
4653 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
4654 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
4655 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
4658 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
4659 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
4660 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
4661 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
4662 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
4663 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
4664 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
4666 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4667 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
4668 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4670 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
4671 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
4672 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4673 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
4674 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
4675 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
4676 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4678 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
4679 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
4680 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
4681 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
4682 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
4683 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4685 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4686 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
4687 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
4690 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
4691 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
4692 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
4693 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4695 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
4696 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
4697 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
4698 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
4699 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
4700 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
4701 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
4703 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
4704 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
4705 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4707 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
4708 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
4709 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
4710 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4712 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4713 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
4714 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
4715 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
4716 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
4717 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4718 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
4719 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
4721 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
4722 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
4723 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4724 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
4725 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
4726 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
4727 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
4729 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
4730 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
4731 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
4732 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
4733 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
4735 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
4736 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
4737 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
4740 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
4741 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
4742 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
4743 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
4744 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
4745 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4747 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4748 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
4749 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
4750 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4751 - We remove the PortForwsrding and PortForwardingHelper options,
4752 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
4753 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
4754 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
4756 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
4757 confusing we renamed some functions and
4758 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
4759 router_should_check_reachability() and
4760 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
4761 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
4762 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
4763 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
4764 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
4766 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
4767 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
4769 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
4770 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
4771 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4772 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
4773 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
4774 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
4775 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
4776 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
4777 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
4778 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
4779 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
4780 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
4781 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
4782 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
4783 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
4784 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4785 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
4786 Closes ticket 25766.
4787 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
4788 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
4789 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
4790 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
4791 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
4792 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
4793 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
4794 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
4795 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
4796 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
4797 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4798 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
4799 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
4800 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
4802 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
4803 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
4804 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
4805 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
4806 before. Closes ticket 26016.
4807 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
4808 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
4809 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
4810 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
4812 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
4813 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
4814 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
4815 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4817 o Deprecated features:
4818 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
4819 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
4820 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
4821 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
4822 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
4823 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
4826 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
4827 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
4830 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
4831 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
4832 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
4833 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
4834 24378 and proposal 290.
4835 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
4836 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
4837 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
4838 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
4839 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
4840 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
4841 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
4842 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
4843 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
4844 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
4845 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
4846 their local router. Closes 25409.
4847 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
4848 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
4849 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
4850 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
4851 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
4852 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
4853 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
4854 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
4855 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
4856 Closes ticket 25268.
4859 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
4860 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
4861 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
4863 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
4864 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
4865 be nearly identical to this one.
4867 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
4868 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
4869 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
4870 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
4871 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
4872 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4874 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
4875 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
4876 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
4877 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
4878 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
4879 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
4880 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
4882 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
4883 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
4884 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
4886 o Minor features (config options):
4887 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
4888 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
4889 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
4892 o Minor features (geoip):
4893 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4894 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
4896 o Minor bugfixes (client):
4897 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
4898 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
4899 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
4900 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
4901 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
4903 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4904 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
4905 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
4906 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4908 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
4909 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
4910 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
4911 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4912 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
4913 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
4914 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4916 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
4917 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
4918 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
4919 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
4920 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
4921 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
4922 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4924 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
4925 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
4926 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
4927 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
4928 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
4930 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4931 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
4932 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
4934 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
4935 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
4936 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
4938 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4939 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
4940 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
4942 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
4943 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
4944 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
4948 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
4949 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
4950 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
4951 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
4953 o New system requirements:
4954 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
4955 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
4957 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
4958 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
4959 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
4960 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
4961 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
4963 o Minor features (geoip):
4964 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
4965 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
4967 o Minor features (log messages):
4968 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
4969 information about memory usage from the different compression
4970 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
4972 o Minor features (sandbox):
4973 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
4974 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
4975 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
4977 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
4978 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
4979 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
4980 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
4982 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
4983 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
4984 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
4986 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4987 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
4988 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
4989 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
4991 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
4992 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
4993 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
4994 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4996 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4997 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
4998 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
4999 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
5001 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
5002 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
5003 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
5005 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5006 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
5007 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
5008 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
5009 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
5010 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5012 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5013 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
5014 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
5015 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
5017 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
5018 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
5019 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
5020 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
5022 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
5023 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
5024 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
5025 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
5028 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
5029 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
5030 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
5031 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
5032 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5034 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5035 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
5036 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
5040 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
5042 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
5043 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
5046 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
5047 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
5050 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
5051 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
5053 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
5054 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
5056 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
5059 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
5060 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
5061 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
5063 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
5064 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
5065 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
5066 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
5069 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5070 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
5071 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
5072 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
5075 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5076 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
5077 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
5078 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
5079 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
5080 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
5081 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
5082 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
5083 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
5084 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
5085 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
5086 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
5087 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
5089 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
5090 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
5091 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
5093 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5094 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
5095 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
5096 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
5097 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
5098 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
5099 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5101 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5102 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
5103 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5105 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5106 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
5107 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
5108 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
5109 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
5110 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
5111 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5113 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5114 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
5115 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
5116 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
5118 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
5119 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
5120 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
5121 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
5123 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5124 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
5125 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
5126 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
5127 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
5128 Closes ticket 24978.
5130 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
5131 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
5132 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
5133 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
5134 information. Closes ticket 24801.
5135 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
5136 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
5137 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
5138 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
5140 o Minor features (geoip):
5141 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5144 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5145 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
5146 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
5147 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
5148 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
5150 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5151 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
5152 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
5153 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
5154 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
5156 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
5157 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
5158 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
5159 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
5160 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
5163 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
5164 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
5165 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
5166 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
5167 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
5168 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
5169 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
5170 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
5171 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
5172 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
5173 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
5176 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
5177 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
5178 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
5180 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
5181 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
5182 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
5185 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5186 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
5187 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
5188 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
5189 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
5190 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
5191 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
5193 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
5194 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
5195 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5196 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
5197 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
5198 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
5199 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
5200 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
5201 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
5204 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
5205 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
5206 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
5207 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
5208 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
5209 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5211 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5212 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
5213 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
5214 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5216 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
5217 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
5218 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
5219 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
5220 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
5223 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
5224 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
5225 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
5226 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
5227 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
5228 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5230 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
5231 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
5232 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
5233 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
5234 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
5235 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
5236 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
5237 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
5238 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
5239 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5240 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
5241 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
5243 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5244 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
5245 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
5246 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5248 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5249 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
5250 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
5251 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5253 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
5254 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
5255 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
5256 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
5259 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
5260 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
5261 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
5262 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
5263 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
5265 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5266 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
5268 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
5269 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
5271 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5272 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
5273 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
5276 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
5277 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
5280 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
5281 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
5283 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
5284 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
5286 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
5289 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
5290 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
5291 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
5293 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5294 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
5295 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
5296 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
5299 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
5300 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
5301 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
5302 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
5303 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
5304 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
5305 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
5306 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
5307 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
5308 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
5309 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
5310 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
5311 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
5313 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
5314 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
5315 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
5316 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
5317 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
5318 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
5319 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
5320 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
5321 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
5323 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
5324 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
5325 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
5326 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
5327 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
5328 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
5329 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5331 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
5332 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
5333 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
5334 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
5336 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
5337 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
5338 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
5339 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
5340 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
5341 Closes ticket 24978.
5343 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
5344 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
5345 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
5346 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
5348 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
5349 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
5350 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
5351 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
5352 information. Closes ticket 24801.
5353 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
5354 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
5355 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
5356 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
5358 o Minor features (geoip):
5359 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5362 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5363 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
5364 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
5366 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
5367 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
5368 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
5369 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
5370 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
5372 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
5373 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
5374 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
5375 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
5376 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
5378 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
5379 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
5380 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
5381 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
5382 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
5385 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5386 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
5387 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
5389 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
5390 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
5391 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
5394 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5395 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
5396 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
5397 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
5398 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
5399 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
5400 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
5402 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
5403 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
5404 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
5405 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
5406 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
5409 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
5410 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
5411 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
5412 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
5413 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
5414 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5416 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
5417 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
5418 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
5419 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5421 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
5422 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
5423 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
5424 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
5425 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
5426 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
5427 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
5428 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
5429 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
5430 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5431 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
5432 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
5434 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
5435 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
5436 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
5437 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
5440 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5441 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
5442 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
5443 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
5444 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
5446 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5447 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
5449 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
5450 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
5453 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
5454 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
5455 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
5458 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
5459 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
5461 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
5462 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
5463 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
5464 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
5465 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
5466 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
5469 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
5470 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
5472 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
5475 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
5476 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
5477 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
5478 the DoS mitigations.)
5480 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5481 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
5482 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
5483 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
5486 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5487 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
5488 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
5489 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5491 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5492 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
5493 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
5494 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
5495 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
5496 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
5497 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
5498 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
5499 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
5500 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
5501 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
5502 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
5503 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
5505 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5506 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
5507 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
5508 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
5509 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
5510 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
5511 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5512 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
5513 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
5514 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
5515 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5517 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5518 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
5519 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5521 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5522 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
5523 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
5524 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
5525 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
5526 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
5527 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5529 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5530 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
5531 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
5532 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5534 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5535 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
5536 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
5537 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
5539 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5540 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
5541 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
5542 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
5543 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
5544 Closes ticket 24978.
5546 o Minor features (geoip):
5547 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5550 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5551 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
5552 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
5555 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5556 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
5557 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
5558 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
5559 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
5561 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5562 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
5563 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
5564 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
5565 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
5566 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
5567 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
5569 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5570 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
5571 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
5572 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
5573 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
5575 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5576 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
5577 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
5578 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5580 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5581 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
5582 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
5583 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
5584 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5586 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5587 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
5588 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
5589 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5591 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5592 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
5593 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
5594 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5596 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5597 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
5598 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
5599 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
5601 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5602 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
5604 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
5605 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
5607 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
5608 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
5609 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
5611 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
5612 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
5613 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
5614 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
5615 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5617 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
5618 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
5619 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
5621 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
5622 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
5623 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
5627 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
5628 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
5629 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
5630 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
5632 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
5633 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
5634 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
5635 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
5636 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
5637 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5639 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
5642 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
5643 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
5644 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
5645 the DoS mitigations.)
5647 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
5648 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
5649 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
5650 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
5653 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
5654 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
5655 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
5656 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
5657 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
5658 Closes ticket 24978.
5660 o Minor features (logging):
5661 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
5662 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
5664 o Minor features (testing):
5665 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
5668 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
5669 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
5670 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
5671 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
5672 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
5673 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
5674 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
5676 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
5677 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
5678 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
5679 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
5680 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
5681 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
5684 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
5685 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
5686 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
5687 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
5689 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5690 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
5691 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
5692 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
5693 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
5696 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
5697 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
5699 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
5700 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
5702 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
5703 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
5704 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5705 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
5707 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5708 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
5709 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
5712 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
5713 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
5714 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
5715 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
5716 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
5717 it to older supported release series.
5719 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
5720 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
5721 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
5722 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
5723 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
5724 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
5725 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
5726 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
5727 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
5728 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
5729 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
5730 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
5731 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
5733 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
5734 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
5735 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
5736 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
5737 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
5738 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
5739 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
5740 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5742 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
5743 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
5744 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5746 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
5747 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
5748 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
5749 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5751 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
5752 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
5753 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
5754 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
5756 o Minor features (directory authority):
5757 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
5758 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
5760 o Minor features (geoip):
5761 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
5764 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
5765 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
5766 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
5769 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
5770 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
5771 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
5772 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
5773 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
5775 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
5776 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
5777 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
5778 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
5779 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
5781 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
5782 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
5783 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
5784 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
5786 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
5787 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
5788 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
5789 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
5790 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5792 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
5793 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
5794 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
5795 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5797 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5798 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
5799 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
5800 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5801 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
5802 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
5803 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
5805 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5806 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
5807 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
5808 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
5809 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5810 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
5811 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
5812 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
5814 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
5815 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
5816 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
5817 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
5818 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
5819 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
5820 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
5822 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
5823 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
5824 would call the Rust implementation of
5825 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
5826 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
5827 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
5828 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
5829 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5831 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
5832 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
5833 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
5836 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
5837 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
5838 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
5839 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
5840 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
5841 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
5843 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5844 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
5845 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
5846 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
5847 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5849 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5850 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
5852 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
5853 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
5854 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
5857 o Documentation (man page):
5858 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
5859 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
5863 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
5864 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
5865 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
5866 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
5867 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
5868 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
5871 o Major features (embedding):
5872 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
5873 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
5874 Closes ticket 23684.
5875 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
5876 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
5877 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
5878 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
5879 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
5880 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
5882 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
5883 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
5884 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
5885 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
5886 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
5887 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
5888 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
5889 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
5890 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
5891 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
5892 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
5895 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
5896 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
5897 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
5898 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
5899 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
5900 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
5901 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
5903 o Major features (onion services):
5904 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
5905 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
5906 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
5907 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
5908 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
5911 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
5912 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
5913 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
5914 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
5915 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
5916 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
5917 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
5918 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
5920 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
5921 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
5922 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
5923 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
5924 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
5926 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
5927 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
5928 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
5929 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
5930 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
5931 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
5932 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5934 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
5935 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
5936 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
5937 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
5938 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
5939 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
5940 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
5941 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
5942 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
5943 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
5944 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5946 o Major bugfixes (relays):
5947 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
5948 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
5949 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
5950 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
5951 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
5952 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5954 o Minor feature (IPv6):
5955 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
5956 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
5957 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
5958 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
5959 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
5960 Implements ticket 23827.
5962 o Minor features (cleanup):
5963 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
5964 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
5966 o Minor features (defensive programming):
5967 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
5968 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
5969 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
5970 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
5971 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
5972 once. Part of ticket 24337.
5973 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
5974 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
5975 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
5977 o Minor features (embedding):
5978 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
5979 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
5980 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
5981 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
5982 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
5983 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
5984 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
5985 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
5986 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
5987 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
5988 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
5989 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
5990 Closes ticket 23848.
5991 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
5992 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
5993 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
5995 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5996 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
5997 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
5998 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
5999 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
6000 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
6001 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
6002 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
6005 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
6006 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
6007 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
6008 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
6009 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
6010 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
6011 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
6013 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
6014 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
6015 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
6016 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
6017 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
6018 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
6019 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
6020 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
6021 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
6022 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
6023 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
6024 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
6026 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
6027 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
6028 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
6030 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
6031 Implements ticket 24791.
6033 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
6034 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
6035 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
6036 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
6037 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
6038 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
6040 o Minor features (heartbeat):
6041 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
6042 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
6045 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
6046 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
6047 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
6048 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
6049 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
6051 o Minor features (log messages):
6052 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
6053 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
6054 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
6055 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
6057 o Minor features (logging, android):
6058 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
6061 o Minor features (performance):
6062 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
6063 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
6064 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
6065 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
6067 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
6068 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
6069 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
6070 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
6071 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
6072 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
6073 Implements ticket 24374.
6075 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
6076 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
6077 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
6078 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
6079 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
6081 o Minor features (performance, windows):
6082 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
6083 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
6084 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
6087 o Major features (relay):
6088 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
6089 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
6090 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
6091 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
6092 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
6094 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
6095 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
6096 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
6097 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
6098 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
6099 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
6100 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
6101 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
6102 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
6104 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
6105 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
6106 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
6107 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
6109 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
6110 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
6111 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
6112 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
6113 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
6114 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
6115 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6116 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
6117 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
6118 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
6119 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
6120 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
6123 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
6124 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
6125 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
6126 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
6129 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
6130 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
6131 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
6134 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
6135 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
6136 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
6138 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
6139 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6140 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
6141 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
6142 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
6144 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
6145 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6146 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
6147 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6149 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
6150 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
6151 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6152 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
6153 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
6154 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
6156 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6157 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
6158 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
6159 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
6161 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6162 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
6163 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
6164 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
6165 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6166 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
6169 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
6170 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
6171 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
6172 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6174 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
6175 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
6176 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
6177 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6179 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
6180 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
6181 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
6182 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
6183 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
6184 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6185 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
6186 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
6187 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
6188 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
6189 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
6190 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
6192 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6193 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
6194 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6195 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
6196 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
6198 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6199 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
6201 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
6202 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
6203 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
6204 "aruna1234" and teor.
6205 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
6206 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
6207 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
6208 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
6210 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
6211 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
6212 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
6213 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
6214 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
6215 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
6216 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
6217 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
6218 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
6219 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
6221 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
6222 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
6225 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
6226 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
6228 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
6229 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
6230 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
6231 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
6232 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
6233 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
6236 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
6237 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
6238 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
6239 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
6240 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
6242 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
6243 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
6244 adding very little except for unit test.
6246 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
6247 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
6248 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
6249 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
6251 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
6252 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
6253 const. Implements ticket 24489.
6256 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
6257 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
6259 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
6260 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
6261 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
6262 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
6263 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
6264 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
6266 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
6267 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
6268 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
6269 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
6270 with the 0.2.9 series.
6272 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
6273 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6275 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
6276 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
6277 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
6278 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
6279 information. Closes ticket 24801.
6280 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
6281 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
6282 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
6283 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
6285 o Minor features (geoip):
6286 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
6289 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
6290 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
6291 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
6292 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
6293 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
6296 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6297 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
6298 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6300 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
6301 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
6302 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
6303 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
6307 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
6308 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
6309 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
6310 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
6311 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
6312 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
6313 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
6315 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
6316 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
6317 will be nearly identical to this.
6319 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
6320 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
6321 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
6322 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
6323 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
6324 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
6325 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6327 o Minor features (geoip):
6328 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6331 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
6332 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
6333 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
6334 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6336 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
6337 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
6338 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
6339 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
6340 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
6343 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
6344 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
6345 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
6346 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
6347 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
6348 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6351 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
6352 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
6353 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
6355 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
6356 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
6357 be nearly identical to this.
6359 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
6360 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
6361 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
6362 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
6363 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
6364 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
6365 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
6367 o Minor features (logging):
6368 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
6371 o Minor features (portability):
6372 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
6373 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
6376 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
6377 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
6378 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
6379 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
6380 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6381 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
6382 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
6383 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
6384 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6385 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
6386 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
6387 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
6388 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6390 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6391 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
6392 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
6394 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
6395 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
6396 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
6397 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
6398 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
6399 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
6400 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
6403 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6404 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
6405 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
6406 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
6407 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
6408 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
6409 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6411 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
6412 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
6413 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
6414 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6415 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
6416 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
6417 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
6418 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6419 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
6420 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
6421 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6424 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
6425 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
6426 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
6427 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
6430 o Major bugfixes (security):
6431 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
6432 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
6433 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
6434 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
6435 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
6436 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
6437 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
6438 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
6439 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
6440 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
6442 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
6443 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
6444 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
6445 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
6446 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
6447 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
6448 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
6451 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
6452 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
6453 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
6454 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
6455 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
6457 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
6458 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
6459 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
6460 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
6461 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
6462 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6463 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
6464 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
6465 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6467 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
6468 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
6469 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
6470 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
6472 o Minor features (directory authority):
6473 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
6476 o Minor bugfixes (client):
6477 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
6478 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
6479 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6482 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
6483 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
6484 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
6485 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
6487 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6488 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
6489 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
6490 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
6491 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
6492 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
6493 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
6494 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
6495 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
6496 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
6497 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
6499 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
6500 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
6501 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
6502 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
6503 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
6504 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
6505 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
6508 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6509 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
6510 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
6511 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
6512 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
6514 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6515 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
6516 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
6517 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
6518 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
6519 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6520 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
6521 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
6522 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6524 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
6525 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
6526 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
6527 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
6528 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
6529 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
6532 o Minor features (bridge):
6533 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
6534 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
6535 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
6536 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
6539 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6540 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
6543 o Minor features (geoip):
6544 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6547 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6548 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
6549 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
6550 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
6551 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6553 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6554 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
6555 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6557 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6558 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
6559 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
6560 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
6561 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
6562 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6564 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
6565 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
6566 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
6569 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
6570 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
6571 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
6572 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
6573 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6576 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
6577 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
6578 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
6579 to another of the releases coming out today.
6581 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
6582 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
6583 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6585 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6586 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
6587 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
6588 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
6589 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
6590 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
6591 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
6592 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
6593 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
6594 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
6595 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
6597 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
6598 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
6599 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
6600 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
6601 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
6602 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
6603 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
6606 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6607 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
6608 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
6609 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
6610 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
6612 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6613 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
6614 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
6615 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
6616 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
6617 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6618 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
6619 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
6620 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6622 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
6623 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
6624 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
6625 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
6626 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
6627 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
6630 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6631 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
6632 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
6633 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
6634 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
6635 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
6637 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
6638 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
6639 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
6640 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
6641 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
6644 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6645 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
6648 o Minor features (geoip):
6649 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6652 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6653 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
6654 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
6655 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
6656 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6658 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6659 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
6660 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6662 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6663 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
6664 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
6665 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
6666 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
6667 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6669 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
6670 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
6671 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
6672 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
6673 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6675 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6676 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
6677 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
6680 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
6681 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
6682 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
6683 to another of the releases coming out today.
6685 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
6686 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
6687 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
6688 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
6689 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
6690 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
6693 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6694 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
6695 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
6696 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
6697 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
6698 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
6699 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
6700 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
6701 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
6702 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
6703 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
6705 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
6706 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
6707 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
6708 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
6709 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
6710 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
6711 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
6714 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6715 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
6716 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
6717 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
6718 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
6720 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6721 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
6722 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
6723 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
6724 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
6725 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6727 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
6728 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
6729 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
6730 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
6731 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
6734 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6735 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
6738 o Minor features (geoip):
6739 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6742 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
6743 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
6744 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
6745 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
6746 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
6747 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
6749 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6750 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
6751 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
6752 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
6753 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6755 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
6756 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
6757 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6759 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
6760 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
6761 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
6762 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
6763 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
6764 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6766 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
6767 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
6768 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
6769 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
6770 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
6772 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6773 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
6774 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
6777 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
6778 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
6779 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
6780 to another of the releases coming out today.
6782 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
6783 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
6784 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6786 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6787 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
6788 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
6789 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
6790 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
6791 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
6792 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
6793 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
6794 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
6795 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
6796 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
6797 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
6798 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
6799 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
6800 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
6803 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6804 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
6805 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
6806 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
6807 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
6809 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6810 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
6811 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
6812 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
6813 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
6816 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
6817 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
6818 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
6819 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
6820 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
6823 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6824 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
6827 o Minor features (geoip):
6828 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6831 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
6832 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
6833 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
6836 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
6837 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
6838 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
6839 to another of the releases coming out today.
6841 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
6842 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
6843 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
6845 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6846 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
6847 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
6848 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
6849 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
6850 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
6851 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
6852 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
6853 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
6854 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
6855 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
6856 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
6857 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
6858 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
6859 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
6862 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
6863 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
6864 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
6865 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
6866 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
6867 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
6869 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
6870 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
6871 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
6872 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
6873 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
6876 o Minor features (geoip):
6877 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6881 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
6882 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
6883 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
6884 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
6885 since the 0.3.0.x series.
6887 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
6888 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
6891 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
6892 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
6893 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
6894 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
6895 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
6896 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
6897 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
6898 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
6899 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
6900 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
6901 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
6904 o Minor features (directory authority):
6905 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
6906 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
6907 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
6908 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
6910 o Minor features (geoip):
6911 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
6914 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6915 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
6916 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
6918 o Minor features (logging):
6919 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
6920 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
6922 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
6923 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
6925 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6926 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
6927 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
6928 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
6929 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
6930 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
6931 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
6932 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
6934 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
6935 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
6936 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
6939 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
6940 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
6941 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
6942 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6944 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
6945 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
6946 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6947 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
6948 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
6949 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
6950 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
6951 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
6952 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
6955 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6956 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
6957 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6958 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
6959 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
6960 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
6961 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
6963 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
6964 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
6965 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
6966 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
6967 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
6968 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6970 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6971 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
6972 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
6973 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
6974 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6975 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
6976 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
6978 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
6979 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
6980 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6982 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
6983 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
6984 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
6985 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
6986 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
6987 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
6988 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
6989 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
6992 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
6993 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
6994 section. Closes ticket 24254.
6997 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
6998 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
6999 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
7000 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
7003 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
7004 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
7005 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
7006 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
7007 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
7008 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
7011 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
7012 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
7013 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
7014 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
7015 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7017 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
7018 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
7019 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
7020 Closes ticket 23753.
7022 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
7023 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
7024 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
7025 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
7026 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
7028 o Minor features (testing):
7029 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
7030 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
7032 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
7033 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
7034 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
7035 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
7036 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7038 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
7039 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
7040 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
7041 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
7042 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
7045 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
7046 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
7047 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
7048 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
7049 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7051 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
7052 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
7053 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
7054 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7056 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7057 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
7058 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
7060 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
7061 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7062 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
7064 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7065 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
7066 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
7067 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7068 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
7069 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7071 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
7072 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
7073 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
7074 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
7075 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
7076 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
7077 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7078 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
7079 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
7080 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
7081 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
7082 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
7084 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
7085 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
7086 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
7087 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
7088 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7090 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7091 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
7092 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
7093 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
7094 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
7095 Closes ticket 24109.
7098 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
7099 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
7100 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
7101 directory authority, Bastet.
7103 o Directory authority changes:
7104 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
7105 Closes ticket 23910.
7106 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
7107 Closes ticket 23592.
7109 o Minor features (bridge):
7110 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
7111 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
7112 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
7113 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
7114 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
7115 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
7116 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
7118 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
7119 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
7120 Resolves ticket 23670.
7122 o Minor features (geoip):
7123 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7126 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
7127 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
7128 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
7129 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7131 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7132 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
7133 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7135 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
7136 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
7137 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
7138 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
7139 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
7140 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7142 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
7143 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
7144 only fetch the service descriptor once.
7145 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
7146 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
7147 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7149 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
7150 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
7151 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
7152 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
7154 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
7155 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
7156 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7158 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
7159 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
7160 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
7161 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
7162 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
7164 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
7165 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
7166 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7168 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7169 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
7170 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
7173 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7174 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
7175 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
7176 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
7177 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
7178 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
7179 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
7180 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
7182 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
7183 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
7184 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
7185 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
7186 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
7189 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
7190 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
7191 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
7192 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
7193 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
7197 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
7198 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
7199 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
7201 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
7202 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
7203 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
7205 o Directory authority changes:
7206 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
7207 Closes ticket 23910.
7208 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
7209 Closes ticket 23592.
7211 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7212 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
7213 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
7214 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
7215 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
7217 o Minor features (geoip):
7218 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7221 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7222 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
7223 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
7224 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
7225 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
7226 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
7227 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
7228 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
7229 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
7231 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7232 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
7233 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
7234 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
7235 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
7236 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
7237 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
7238 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
7239 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
7242 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
7243 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
7244 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
7245 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
7247 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
7248 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
7249 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
7251 o Directory authority changes:
7252 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
7253 Closes ticket 23910.
7254 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
7255 Closes ticket 23592.
7257 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7258 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
7259 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
7260 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7262 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7263 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
7264 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
7265 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
7266 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
7268 o Minor features (geoip):
7269 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7273 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
7274 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
7275 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
7276 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
7278 o Directory authority changes:
7279 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
7280 Closes ticket 23910.
7281 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
7282 Closes ticket 23592.
7284 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7285 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
7286 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
7287 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7289 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7290 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
7291 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
7292 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
7293 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
7295 o Minor features (geoip):
7296 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7299 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7300 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
7301 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
7302 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
7303 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
7304 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
7305 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
7306 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
7309 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
7310 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
7311 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7313 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
7314 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
7315 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
7316 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
7317 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
7318 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7319 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
7322 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
7323 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
7324 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
7325 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
7327 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
7328 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
7329 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
7331 o Directory authority changes:
7332 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
7333 Closes ticket 23910.
7334 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
7335 Closes ticket 23592.
7337 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7338 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
7339 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
7340 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7342 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7343 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
7344 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
7345 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
7346 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
7348 o Minor features (geoip):
7349 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7352 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7353 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
7354 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
7355 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
7356 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
7357 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
7358 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
7359 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
7362 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7363 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
7364 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
7365 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7367 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
7368 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
7369 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7371 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
7372 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
7373 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
7374 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
7375 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
7376 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7377 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
7380 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
7381 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
7382 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
7383 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
7384 a new directory authority, Bastet.
7386 o Directory authority changes:
7387 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
7388 Closes ticket 23910.
7389 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
7390 Closes ticket 23592.
7392 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7393 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
7394 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
7395 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7397 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7398 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
7399 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
7400 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
7401 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
7403 o Minor features (geoip):
7404 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7407 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7408 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
7409 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
7410 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
7412 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7413 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
7414 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
7417 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
7418 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
7419 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
7421 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7422 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
7423 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
7424 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7426 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
7427 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
7428 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
7430 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
7431 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
7432 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
7436 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
7437 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
7438 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
7439 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
7440 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
7441 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
7443 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
7444 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
7445 include better testing and logging.
7447 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
7450 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
7451 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
7452 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
7453 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7455 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
7456 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
7457 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
7458 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
7459 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
7460 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
7461 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7463 o Minor features (build, compilation):
7464 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
7465 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
7466 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
7467 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
7468 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
7469 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
7470 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
7471 Closes ticket 23643.
7473 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7474 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
7475 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
7476 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
7477 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
7479 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
7480 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
7481 the circuit identifier(s).
7482 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
7483 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
7485 o Minor features (logging):
7486 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
7487 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
7488 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
7489 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
7490 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
7492 o Minor features (relay):
7493 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
7494 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
7495 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
7496 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
7498 o Minor features (robustness):
7499 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
7500 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
7502 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
7503 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
7504 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
7505 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
7506 related to ticket 23080.
7508 o Minor features (testing):
7509 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
7510 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
7513 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
7514 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
7515 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
7517 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
7518 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
7521 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
7522 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
7523 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
7524 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
7525 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
7526 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
7527 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
7528 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
7529 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7531 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
7532 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
7533 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
7536 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7537 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
7538 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
7539 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7541 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
7542 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
7543 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
7544 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
7545 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7546 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
7547 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
7548 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
7551 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
7552 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
7553 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
7554 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7556 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
7557 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
7558 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
7559 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
7560 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
7561 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7563 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
7564 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
7565 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
7566 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7567 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
7568 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
7569 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7570 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
7571 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7572 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
7573 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
7575 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
7576 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
7577 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
7578 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7579 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
7580 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7582 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7583 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
7584 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
7586 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
7587 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
7589 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
7590 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
7591 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7593 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7594 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
7595 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
7598 o Deprecated features:
7599 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
7600 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
7601 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
7604 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
7605 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7606 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
7607 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
7608 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
7609 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
7610 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
7611 Closes ticket 18736.
7614 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
7615 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
7616 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
7617 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
7618 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
7619 features and bugfixes here.
7621 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
7623 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
7624 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
7625 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
7626 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
7627 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
7628 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
7629 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
7630 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
7631 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
7632 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
7633 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
7634 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
7636 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
7637 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
7638 more information, see the design paper at
7639 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
7640 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
7641 Closes ticket 12541.
7643 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
7644 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
7645 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
7646 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
7647 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
7648 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
7651 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
7652 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
7654 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
7657 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
7660 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
7662 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
7664 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
7666 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
7667 they are 56 characters long, as in
7668 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
7670 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
7671 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
7672 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
7673 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
7674 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
7677 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
7678 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
7679 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
7680 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
7681 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
7682 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
7685 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
7686 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
7687 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
7688 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
7690 o Minor features (bug detection):
7691 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
7692 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
7693 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
7695 o Minor features (client):
7696 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
7697 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
7698 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
7699 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
7700 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
7701 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
7702 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
7703 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
7704 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
7705 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
7707 o Minor features (command line):
7708 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
7709 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
7710 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
7712 o Minor features (control port):
7713 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
7714 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
7715 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
7717 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
7718 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
7720 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
7721 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
7722 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
7723 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
7724 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
7725 Closes ticket 23237.
7726 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
7727 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
7729 o Minor features (development support):
7730 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
7731 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
7732 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
7733 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
7734 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
7735 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
7737 o Minor features (ed25519):
7738 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
7739 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
7740 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
7742 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
7743 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
7744 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
7746 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
7747 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
7748 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
7749 another program, regardless of the settings of
7750 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
7751 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
7752 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
7754 o Minor features (logging):
7755 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
7756 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
7757 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
7759 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
7760 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
7762 o Minor features (portability):
7763 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
7764 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
7765 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
7766 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
7768 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
7769 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
7770 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
7771 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
7772 results. Closes ticket 22731.
7774 o Minor features (startup, safety):
7775 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
7776 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
7779 o Minor features (static analysis):
7780 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
7781 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
7784 o Minor features (testing):
7785 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
7786 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
7787 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
7788 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
7789 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
7791 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
7792 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
7793 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
7794 Coverity as CID 1415728.
7796 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
7797 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
7798 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
7799 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
7800 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
7801 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
7802 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
7803 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7805 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
7806 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
7807 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
7808 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
7809 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7810 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
7811 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
7812 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
7814 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7815 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
7816 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7818 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
7819 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
7820 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
7821 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
7823 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
7824 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
7825 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
7826 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
7827 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
7828 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
7830 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
7831 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
7834 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
7835 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
7836 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
7837 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7839 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
7840 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
7841 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
7842 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
7843 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
7844 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
7845 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
7848 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
7849 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
7850 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
7851 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7853 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
7854 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
7855 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
7857 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7858 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
7859 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
7860 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
7861 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
7862 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
7864 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
7865 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
7866 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
7868 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
7869 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
7870 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
7872 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
7873 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
7874 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
7875 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
7877 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7878 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
7879 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7881 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7882 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
7883 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
7884 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
7885 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
7886 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
7887 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
7888 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7890 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
7891 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
7892 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
7893 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
7894 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
7895 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
7896 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7898 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
7899 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
7900 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
7901 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7903 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7904 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
7905 function from the general code to handle channel state
7906 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
7907 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
7908 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
7909 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
7910 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
7911 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
7912 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
7913 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
7915 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
7916 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
7918 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
7919 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
7920 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
7921 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
7922 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
7923 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
7924 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
7925 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
7926 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
7927 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
7928 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
7929 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
7931 o Deprecated features:
7932 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
7933 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
7934 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
7938 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
7939 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
7940 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
7941 Closes ticket 15645.
7942 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
7943 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
7944 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
7945 file. Closes ticket 21148.
7948 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
7949 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
7950 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
7951 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
7952 Closes ticket 21031.
7953 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
7954 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
7957 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
7958 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
7961 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
7962 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
7963 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
7964 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
7966 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
7967 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
7968 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
7969 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
7971 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7972 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
7973 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
7974 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
7975 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
7978 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
7981 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
7982 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
7983 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
7986 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
7987 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
7988 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
7989 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
7990 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
7991 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
7992 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
7993 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
7994 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
7996 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
7997 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
7998 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
7999 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
8000 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
8001 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
8002 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
8003 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
8004 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
8007 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
8008 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
8011 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
8012 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
8013 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
8014 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
8016 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
8017 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
8018 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
8019 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
8020 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
8021 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
8022 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
8024 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
8025 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
8026 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
8027 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
8029 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
8030 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
8031 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8033 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8034 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
8035 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8036 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
8038 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8039 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
8040 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
8041 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
8042 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
8044 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8045 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
8046 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
8047 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
8049 o Minor features (geoip):
8050 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8053 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8054 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
8055 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
8056 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
8058 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8059 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
8060 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8061 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
8062 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8063 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
8064 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
8065 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8067 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
8068 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
8069 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8071 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8072 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
8073 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
8076 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
8077 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
8078 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8079 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
8080 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8082 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8083 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
8084 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
8085 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
8086 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
8087 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8089 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
8090 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
8091 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
8092 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
8093 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
8094 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
8095 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
8096 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
8097 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
8099 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8100 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
8101 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
8102 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8104 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8105 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
8106 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8108 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
8109 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
8110 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
8111 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
8112 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8114 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
8115 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
8116 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
8119 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8120 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
8121 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
8122 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
8123 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
8125 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8126 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
8127 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
8128 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
8129 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
8130 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
8131 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
8132 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
8133 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
8136 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
8137 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
8140 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
8141 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
8142 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
8143 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
8145 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
8146 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
8147 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
8148 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
8151 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8154 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
8155 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
8156 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8158 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
8159 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
8160 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8161 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
8162 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8164 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8165 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
8166 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
8167 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8169 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
8170 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
8171 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
8173 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
8174 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
8175 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
8176 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
8179 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
8180 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
8182 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
8183 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
8184 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
8185 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
8186 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
8187 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
8188 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
8190 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
8191 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
8192 disabled. For more information, see
8193 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
8195 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
8196 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
8197 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
8198 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
8199 with the 0.2.9 series.
8201 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
8202 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8204 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
8205 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
8206 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
8207 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
8208 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
8210 o Minor features (defensive programming):
8211 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
8212 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
8213 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
8216 o Minor features (diagnostic):
8217 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
8218 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
8219 attempt for bug 23105.
8221 o Minor features (geoip):
8222 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8225 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8226 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
8227 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8229 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8230 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
8231 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8232 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
8233 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8235 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8236 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
8237 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
8238 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8240 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8241 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
8242 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
8246 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
8247 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
8248 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
8249 Windows directory caches.
8251 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
8252 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
8253 will be nearly identical to it.
8255 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
8256 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
8257 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
8258 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
8259 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
8260 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8262 o Minor features (directory authority):
8263 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
8264 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
8265 Closes ticket 22348.
8267 o Minor features (geoip):
8268 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8271 o Minor features (testing):
8272 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
8275 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
8276 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
8277 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8279 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
8280 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
8281 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
8282 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
8283 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
8284 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
8285 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
8286 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
8287 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
8288 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8290 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
8291 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
8292 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
8294 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
8295 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
8296 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
8297 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
8299 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8300 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
8301 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
8302 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
8303 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8305 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
8306 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
8307 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
8308 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
8309 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
8310 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
8312 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
8313 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
8314 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
8315 with the clang static analyzer.
8317 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8318 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
8319 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
8320 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
8321 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
8324 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
8325 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
8326 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
8327 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
8328 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
8329 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8330 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
8333 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
8334 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
8335 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
8336 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
8338 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8339 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
8340 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
8341 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
8342 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
8343 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
8344 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
8345 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
8346 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
8348 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8349 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
8350 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8351 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
8353 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8354 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
8355 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
8356 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
8357 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
8359 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8360 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8363 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
8364 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
8365 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
8366 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
8368 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8369 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
8370 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8371 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
8372 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8373 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
8374 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
8375 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
8378 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8379 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
8380 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
8383 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8384 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
8385 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
8386 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
8387 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
8388 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8390 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8391 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
8392 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
8393 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8395 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
8396 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
8397 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8399 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
8400 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
8401 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8404 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
8405 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
8406 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
8407 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
8408 next version will be a release candidate.
8410 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
8411 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
8412 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
8413 one of those versions should upgrade.
8415 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
8416 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
8417 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
8418 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
8419 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
8420 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
8421 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
8422 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
8423 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
8425 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
8426 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
8427 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
8428 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
8429 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
8431 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
8432 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
8433 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
8434 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
8435 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
8436 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8438 o Minor features (bridge authority):
8439 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
8440 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
8442 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
8443 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
8444 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
8445 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
8446 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
8449 o Minor features (geoip):
8450 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8453 o Minor features (relay, performance):
8454 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
8455 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
8456 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
8457 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
8458 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
8461 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
8462 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
8463 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
8464 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
8465 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
8467 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
8468 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
8469 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
8470 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
8471 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8473 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
8474 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
8475 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8476 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
8477 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8478 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
8479 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
8480 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8481 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
8482 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
8483 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
8486 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
8487 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
8488 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
8489 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
8490 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
8491 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8493 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8494 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
8495 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
8496 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
8497 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
8498 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
8499 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
8500 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
8503 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
8504 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
8505 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
8508 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
8509 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
8510 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
8511 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8513 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8514 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
8515 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8517 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8518 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
8519 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
8520 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
8522 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8523 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
8524 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
8525 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
8526 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8527 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
8528 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8531 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
8532 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
8533 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
8534 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
8535 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
8538 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
8539 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
8543 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
8544 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
8545 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
8546 close ticket 22623.)
8548 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
8549 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
8550 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
8551 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
8552 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
8553 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
8555 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
8556 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
8557 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
8558 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8560 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
8561 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
8562 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
8563 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
8564 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8566 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
8567 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
8568 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
8569 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8571 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
8572 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
8573 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
8574 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
8576 o Minor features (geoip):
8577 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8580 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
8581 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
8582 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
8584 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
8585 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8586 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
8587 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
8588 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
8589 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
8591 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
8592 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
8594 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
8595 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
8596 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
8597 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
8598 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8600 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
8601 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
8602 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
8603 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
8604 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
8605 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
8606 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
8607 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
8608 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
8609 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
8610 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
8611 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
8613 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8614 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
8615 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
8616 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
8617 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8618 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
8619 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
8620 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
8621 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8623 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8624 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
8625 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
8626 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
8627 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
8628 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
8629 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8630 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
8631 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
8632 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
8633 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8634 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
8635 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
8636 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
8637 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
8638 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8640 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
8641 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
8642 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
8643 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
8644 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
8645 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
8646 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
8650 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
8652 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
8653 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
8655 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
8656 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
8657 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
8661 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
8662 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
8663 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
8664 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
8665 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
8668 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
8671 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
8672 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
8673 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
8674 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
8675 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
8676 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
8678 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8679 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
8680 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
8681 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
8683 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
8684 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
8685 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
8686 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8688 o Minor features (geoip):
8689 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8692 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8693 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
8694 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
8695 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
8696 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
8698 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
8699 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
8700 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
8701 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
8702 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
8704 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
8705 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
8706 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
8707 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
8708 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
8709 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
8710 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
8711 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
8712 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
8715 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
8716 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
8717 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8718 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8719 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
8721 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
8722 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
8723 bugfixes described below.
8725 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
8726 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
8727 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
8728 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8729 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8730 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8731 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8734 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
8735 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
8736 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
8737 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
8738 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
8739 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
8740 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
8743 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
8744 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
8745 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
8746 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
8747 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
8748 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
8749 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
8750 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8751 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
8752 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
8753 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
8754 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
8755 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
8758 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
8759 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
8760 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
8762 o Minor features (code style):
8763 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
8764 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
8765 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
8767 o Minor features (diagnostic):
8768 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
8769 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
8770 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
8771 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
8773 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8774 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8775 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8777 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
8778 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
8779 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8781 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
8782 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
8783 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
8784 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
8785 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
8786 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
8787 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8789 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
8790 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
8791 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
8792 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
8793 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8795 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8796 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
8797 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
8801 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
8804 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
8805 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
8806 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8807 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8808 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
8810 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
8811 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
8812 bugfixes described below.
8814 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
8815 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8816 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
8817 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
8818 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8819 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8820 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8821 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8824 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8825 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
8826 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
8827 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
8828 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
8829 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
8830 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
8833 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8834 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
8835 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
8836 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
8837 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
8838 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
8839 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
8840 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8841 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
8842 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
8843 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
8844 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
8845 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
8848 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8849 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
8850 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
8853 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8854 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
8855 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
8856 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
8857 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
8859 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
8860 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
8861 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8863 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8864 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8865 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8867 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8868 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
8869 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
8870 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
8871 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
8872 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
8873 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8875 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
8877 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
8878 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
8879 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8882 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
8883 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
8884 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8885 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8886 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
8887 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
8889 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
8890 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
8891 bugfixes described below.
8893 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
8894 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8895 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8896 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8897 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8900 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8901 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
8902 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
8903 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
8904 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
8905 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
8906 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
8909 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8910 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
8911 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
8912 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
8913 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
8915 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
8916 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
8917 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
8918 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
8919 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
8920 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
8921 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
8923 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
8924 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
8925 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
8926 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
8927 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
8929 o Minor features (geoip):
8930 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8933 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
8934 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
8935 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
8936 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8938 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8939 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8940 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8942 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
8943 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
8944 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
8945 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
8946 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
8949 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
8950 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
8951 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
8952 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
8953 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8955 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
8956 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
8957 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8958 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8959 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
8960 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
8962 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
8963 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8964 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8965 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8968 o Minor features (geoip):
8969 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8972 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
8973 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
8974 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
8975 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
8976 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
8978 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8979 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
8980 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
8982 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
8983 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
8984 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
8985 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
8986 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
8987 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
8989 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
8990 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
8991 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
8992 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
8995 o Minor features (geoip):
8996 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
8999 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9000 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
9001 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
9004 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
9005 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
9006 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
9007 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
9008 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
9009 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
9011 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
9012 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
9013 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
9014 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
9017 o Minor features (geoip):
9018 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9021 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9022 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
9023 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
9025 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
9026 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
9027 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
9028 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
9029 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
9030 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
9032 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
9033 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
9034 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
9035 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
9038 o Minor features (geoip):
9039 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9042 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9043 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
9044 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
9046 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
9047 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
9048 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
9049 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
9050 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
9051 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
9053 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
9054 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
9055 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
9056 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
9059 o Minor features (geoip):
9060 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9063 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9064 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
9065 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
9068 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
9069 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
9070 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
9071 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
9073 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
9074 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
9075 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
9076 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
9077 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9079 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9080 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
9081 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
9084 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
9085 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
9086 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
9087 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9090 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
9091 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
9092 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
9093 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
9094 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
9097 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
9098 security, correctness, and performance.
9100 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
9102 o Major features (directory protocol):
9103 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
9104 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
9105 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
9106 now request these documents when available. When both client and
9107 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
9108 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
9109 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
9110 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
9111 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
9112 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
9113 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
9114 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
9115 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
9116 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
9117 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
9118 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
9119 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
9121 o Major features (experimental):
9122 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
9123 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
9124 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
9125 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
9126 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
9127 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
9128 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
9130 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
9131 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
9132 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
9133 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
9134 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
9135 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
9138 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
9139 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
9140 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
9141 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
9142 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
9143 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
9144 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
9145 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
9146 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
9147 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
9150 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
9151 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
9152 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
9153 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
9154 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
9155 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
9156 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
9157 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
9158 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
9159 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
9160 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
9161 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
9162 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
9163 Otherwise it is at info.
9165 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
9166 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
9167 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
9168 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9170 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
9171 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
9172 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9173 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
9175 o Minor features (security, windows):
9176 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
9177 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
9178 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
9179 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
9180 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
9182 o Minor features (config options):
9183 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
9184 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
9185 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
9186 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
9187 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
9188 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
9189 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
9190 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
9192 o Minor features (controller):
9193 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
9194 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
9196 o Minor features (defaults):
9197 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
9198 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
9199 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
9200 can. Closes ticket 21407.
9201 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
9202 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
9203 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
9204 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
9205 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
9206 Closes ticket 21641.
9208 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
9209 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
9210 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
9211 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
9212 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
9213 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
9214 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
9216 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
9217 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
9218 introduction points than specified in
9219 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
9220 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
9221 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
9222 21594; closes ticket 21622.
9223 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
9224 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
9225 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
9226 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
9228 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9229 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
9230 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
9231 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
9232 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
9233 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
9234 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
9235 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
9236 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
9237 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
9239 o Minor features (logging):
9240 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
9241 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
9242 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
9243 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
9246 o Minor features (performance):
9247 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
9248 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
9250 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
9251 speed some controller functions.
9253 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
9254 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
9255 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
9256 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
9258 o Minor features (safety):
9259 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
9260 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
9261 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
9264 o Minor features (testing):
9265 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
9266 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
9267 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
9268 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
9269 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
9270 on. Closes ticket 21439.
9271 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
9272 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
9273 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
9274 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
9275 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
9276 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
9277 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
9278 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
9279 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
9280 21507. Partially implements 21470.
9282 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
9283 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
9284 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
9285 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
9287 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
9288 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
9289 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
9290 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
9293 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9294 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
9295 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9297 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
9298 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
9299 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
9300 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
9301 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
9302 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
9303 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
9304 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
9305 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
9306 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
9307 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
9308 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
9309 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
9310 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
9312 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9313 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
9314 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9315 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
9316 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
9317 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
9318 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
9319 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9321 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9322 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
9323 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
9324 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9325 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
9326 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
9327 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
9329 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
9330 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
9331 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
9332 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
9333 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
9335 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
9336 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
9337 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9338 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
9339 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
9340 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9341 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
9342 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9343 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
9344 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
9345 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9347 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9348 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
9349 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
9350 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9351 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
9352 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
9353 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
9355 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
9356 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
9357 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
9359 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
9360 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
9361 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
9362 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
9363 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
9365 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9366 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
9367 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
9368 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9369 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
9370 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9371 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
9372 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
9373 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
9374 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
9376 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
9377 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
9378 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
9379 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
9380 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
9382 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
9383 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
9384 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9386 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9387 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
9388 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
9389 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
9390 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
9391 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
9392 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
9393 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
9394 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
9395 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
9396 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
9397 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
9399 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
9400 Resolves ticket 22213.
9401 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
9402 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
9403 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
9404 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
9405 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
9406 types. Closes ticket 21651.
9407 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
9408 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
9411 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
9412 Closes ticket 21873.
9413 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
9414 Closes ticket 21151.
9415 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
9416 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
9418 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
9419 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9420 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
9421 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
9423 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
9424 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
9425 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
9426 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
9427 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
9428 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
9429 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
9430 default behavior is now unavailable.
9431 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
9432 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
9433 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
9434 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
9435 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
9436 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
9437 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
9439 o Removed features (tools):
9440 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
9441 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
9442 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
9443 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
9444 required. Closes ticket 21842.
9447 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
9448 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
9449 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
9450 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
9451 clients are not affected.
9453 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
9454 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
9455 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
9456 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
9457 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
9458 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9461 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9464 o Minor features (future-proofing):
9465 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
9466 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
9467 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
9468 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
9469 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
9470 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
9472 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9473 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
9474 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
9475 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
9476 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
9480 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
9481 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
9483 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
9484 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
9485 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
9486 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
9487 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
9488 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
9491 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
9492 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
9494 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
9495 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
9496 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
9497 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
9498 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
9500 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
9501 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9503 o Minor features (geoip):
9504 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9507 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9508 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
9509 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
9510 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9512 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
9513 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
9514 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
9515 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9518 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
9519 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
9520 0.3.0 release series.
9522 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
9523 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
9524 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
9527 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
9528 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
9529 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
9530 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
9532 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
9533 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
9534 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
9535 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9536 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
9538 o Minor features (geoip):
9539 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9542 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
9543 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
9544 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
9545 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
9548 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9549 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
9550 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
9551 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
9552 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
9553 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
9554 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
9555 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
9557 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9558 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
9559 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
9561 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9562 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
9563 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
9566 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
9567 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
9568 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
9569 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
9570 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9573 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
9574 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
9575 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
9579 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
9580 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
9581 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
9582 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
9583 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
9586 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
9587 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
9588 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
9590 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
9591 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
9592 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
9593 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
9594 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
9595 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
9596 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
9598 o Minor features (geoip):
9599 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9603 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
9604 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
9605 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
9606 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
9609 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
9610 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
9611 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
9613 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
9614 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
9616 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
9617 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9618 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
9620 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9621 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
9622 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
9625 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
9626 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
9627 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
9628 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
9629 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
9630 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
9631 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
9632 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
9633 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
9635 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
9636 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
9637 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
9638 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
9639 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9640 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
9641 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
9642 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
9643 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
9644 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
9645 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
9646 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
9647 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
9649 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9650 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
9651 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
9652 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
9653 Reported by Guido Vranken.
9655 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9656 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
9657 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9659 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
9660 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
9661 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
9662 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
9663 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
9664 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
9665 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
9668 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
9669 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
9670 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
9671 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
9672 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
9673 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
9674 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
9676 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9677 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
9678 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
9679 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
9682 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9683 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
9684 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
9685 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
9687 o Minor features (geoip):
9688 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9692 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
9693 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
9694 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
9695 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
9698 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
9699 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
9700 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
9702 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
9703 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
9705 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
9706 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9707 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
9709 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9710 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
9711 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
9714 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
9715 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
9716 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
9717 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
9718 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
9719 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
9720 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
9721 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
9722 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
9724 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
9725 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
9726 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
9727 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
9728 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
9729 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
9730 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
9731 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
9732 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
9734 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
9735 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
9736 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
9737 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
9738 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9740 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
9741 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
9742 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
9743 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
9744 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
9747 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9748 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
9749 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
9750 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
9751 Reported by Guido Vranken.
9753 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9754 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
9755 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9757 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
9758 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
9759 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
9760 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
9761 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
9762 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
9765 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
9766 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
9767 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
9768 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
9769 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
9770 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
9771 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
9774 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
9775 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
9776 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
9777 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
9778 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
9779 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
9780 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
9782 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9783 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
9784 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
9785 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
9788 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9789 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
9790 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
9791 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
9793 o Minor features (geoip):
9794 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9797 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
9798 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
9799 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
9802 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
9803 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
9804 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
9805 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
9808 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
9809 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
9810 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
9812 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
9813 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
9815 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
9816 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9817 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
9819 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9820 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
9821 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
9824 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
9825 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
9826 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
9827 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
9828 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
9829 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
9830 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
9831 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
9832 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
9834 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
9835 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
9836 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
9837 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
9838 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
9839 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
9840 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
9841 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
9842 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
9844 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
9845 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
9846 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
9847 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
9848 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
9850 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
9851 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
9852 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
9853 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
9854 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
9857 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9858 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
9859 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
9860 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
9861 Reported by Guido Vranken.
9863 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9864 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
9865 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9867 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
9868 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
9869 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
9870 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
9871 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
9872 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
9875 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
9876 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
9877 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
9878 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
9879 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
9880 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
9881 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
9884 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
9885 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
9886 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
9887 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
9888 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
9889 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
9890 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
9892 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9893 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
9894 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
9895 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
9898 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9899 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
9900 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
9901 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
9903 o Minor features (geoip):
9904 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
9907 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
9908 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
9909 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
9911 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
9912 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
9913 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
9914 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
9915 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
9916 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
9918 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
9919 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
9920 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
9924 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
9925 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
9926 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
9927 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
9930 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
9931 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
9932 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
9934 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
9935 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
9937 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
9938 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9939 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
9941 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
9942 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
9943 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
9946 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
9947 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
9948 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
9949 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
9950 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
9951 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
9952 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
9953 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
9954 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
9956 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
9957 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
9958 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
9959 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
9960 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
9961 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
9962 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
9963 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
9964 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
9966 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
9967 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
9968 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
9969 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
9970 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
9973 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9974 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
9975 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
9976 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
9977 Reported by Guido Vranken.
9979 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
9980 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
9981 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
9983 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
9984 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
9985 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
9986 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
9987 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
9988 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
9991 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
9992 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
9993 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
9994 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
9995 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
9996 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
9997 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
10000 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
10001 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
10002 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
10003 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
10004 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
10005 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
10006 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
10008 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
10009 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
10010 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
10011 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
10014 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
10015 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
10016 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
10017 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
10019 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
10020 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
10021 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
10022 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
10024 o Minor features (geoip):
10025 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10028 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
10029 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
10030 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
10032 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
10033 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
10034 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
10038 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
10039 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
10040 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
10041 keep them from coming back.
10043 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
10044 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
10045 will be nearly identical to it.
10047 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
10048 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
10049 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
10050 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
10051 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
10052 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10054 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
10055 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
10056 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10058 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
10059 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
10060 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
10061 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
10062 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
10063 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
10064 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
10065 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
10066 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
10067 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
10068 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
10069 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
10070 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
10071 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
10072 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
10074 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
10075 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
10076 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
10078 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10079 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
10080 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
10082 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
10083 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
10084 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10085 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
10086 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
10087 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
10088 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
10090 o Minor features (geoip):
10091 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10094 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
10095 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
10096 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
10099 o Minor features (testing):
10100 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
10101 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
10102 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
10104 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
10105 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
10106 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
10108 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
10109 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
10110 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
10111 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
10112 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
10113 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10115 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
10116 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
10117 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
10118 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10119 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
10120 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
10121 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
10124 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
10125 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
10126 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
10127 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10128 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
10129 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
10130 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10132 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
10133 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
10134 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
10135 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
10136 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
10137 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10139 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10140 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
10141 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
10143 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
10144 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
10145 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
10146 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
10147 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10150 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
10153 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
10154 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
10155 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
10156 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
10158 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
10159 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
10160 least January of 2020.
10162 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
10163 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
10164 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
10165 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
10168 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
10169 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
10170 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
10171 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
10172 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
10173 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
10174 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10176 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
10177 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
10178 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
10179 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
10180 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
10181 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
10182 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
10184 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
10185 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
10186 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
10188 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
10189 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
10190 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
10192 o Minor features (geoip):
10193 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10196 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
10197 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
10198 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
10200 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
10201 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
10203 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
10204 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
10205 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
10207 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
10208 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
10209 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
10210 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10211 Patch by "junglefowl".
10214 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
10215 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
10216 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
10217 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
10218 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
10219 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
10221 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
10222 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
10223 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
10226 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
10227 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
10228 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
10229 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
10231 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
10232 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
10233 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
10234 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
10235 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10237 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
10238 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
10239 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
10240 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
10241 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10243 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
10244 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
10245 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
10246 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
10247 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
10248 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
10249 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10251 o Minor feature (client):
10252 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
10253 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
10255 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
10256 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
10257 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
10258 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
10260 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
10261 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
10262 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
10263 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
10264 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
10266 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
10267 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
10268 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
10269 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
10270 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
10271 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
10272 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
10273 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
10274 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
10275 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
10277 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
10278 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
10279 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
10281 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
10282 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
10284 o Minor features (relay):
10285 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
10286 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
10287 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
10288 Written by Michael Sonntag.
10290 o Minor bugfix (logging):
10291 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
10292 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
10293 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
10294 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
10297 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10298 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
10299 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
10300 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10302 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
10303 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
10304 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
10306 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
10307 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10308 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
10309 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
10310 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10311 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
10312 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
10314 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
10315 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
10316 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
10317 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
10318 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
10319 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
10320 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
10323 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10324 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
10325 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10327 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
10328 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
10329 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
10330 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
10331 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10332 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
10333 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
10334 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
10336 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
10337 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
10338 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10340 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10341 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
10342 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
10343 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
10345 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
10346 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
10347 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
10348 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10350 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
10351 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
10352 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
10353 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10354 Patch by "junglefowl".
10356 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
10357 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
10358 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
10362 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
10363 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
10364 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
10365 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
10366 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
10367 version should upgrade.
10369 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
10370 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
10371 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
10372 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
10373 the set of fallback directories, and more.
10375 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
10376 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
10377 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
10378 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
10379 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
10380 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
10383 o Major features (security):
10384 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
10385 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
10386 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
10387 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
10388 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
10389 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
10391 o Major features (directory authority, security):
10392 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
10393 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
10394 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
10396 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
10397 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
10398 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
10399 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
10400 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
10403 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
10404 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
10405 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
10406 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
10407 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
10408 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
10409 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
10410 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
10411 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
10412 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
10413 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10415 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
10416 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
10417 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10419 o Minor features (controller):
10420 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
10421 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
10423 o Minor features (entry guards):
10424 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
10425 break regression tests.
10426 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
10427 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
10429 o Minor features (fallback directories):
10430 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
10432 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
10433 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
10434 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
10435 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
10436 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
10437 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
10438 Closes ticket 20539.
10439 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
10441 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
10442 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
10443 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
10444 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
10445 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
10447 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
10448 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
10449 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
10450 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
10451 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
10452 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
10453 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
10454 Closes ticket 20822.
10455 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
10456 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
10458 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
10459 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10462 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
10463 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
10464 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
10465 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
10467 o Minor features (linting):
10468 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
10469 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
10471 o Minor features (logging):
10472 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
10473 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
10475 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
10476 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
10477 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
10478 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
10479 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
10480 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
10482 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
10483 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
10484 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
10485 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
10487 o Minor bugfixes (build):
10488 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
10489 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
10492 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
10493 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
10494 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
10495 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10497 o Minor bugfixes (config):
10498 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
10499 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
10500 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
10501 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10503 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10504 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
10505 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
10508 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
10509 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
10510 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
10511 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
10512 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
10514 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10515 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
10516 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
10518 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
10519 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
10520 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10521 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
10522 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
10523 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
10524 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
10525 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
10526 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
10528 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
10529 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
10530 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
10531 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10533 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10534 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
10535 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
10536 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10537 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
10538 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10540 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
10541 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
10542 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10543 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
10544 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
10545 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
10546 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
10547 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
10549 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10550 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
10551 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10553 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
10554 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
10555 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
10556 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
10558 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
10559 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10561 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10562 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
10563 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
10564 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
10565 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
10567 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10568 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
10569 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10571 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
10572 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
10573 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
10574 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
10575 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10577 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10578 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
10579 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
10581 o Documentation (formatting):
10582 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
10583 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
10585 o Documentation (man page):
10586 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
10587 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
10590 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
10591 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
10592 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
10593 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
10594 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
10595 version should upgrade.
10597 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
10598 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
10600 o Major bugfixes (security):
10601 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
10602 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
10603 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
10604 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
10605 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
10606 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10608 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
10609 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
10610 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
10611 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
10612 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
10613 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
10614 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
10615 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
10616 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
10617 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
10618 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10620 o Minor features (geoip):
10621 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
10624 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10625 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
10626 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
10627 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
10629 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
10630 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10633 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
10634 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
10635 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
10636 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
10637 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
10638 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
10639 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
10640 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
10642 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
10644 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
10645 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
10646 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
10647 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
10648 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
10651 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
10652 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
10653 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
10654 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
10655 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
10656 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
10657 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
10658 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
10661 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
10662 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
10663 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
10664 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
10665 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
10667 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
10668 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
10669 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
10670 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
10671 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
10672 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
10673 15056; part of proposal 220.
10674 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
10675 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
10676 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
10677 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
10678 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
10680 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
10681 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
10682 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
10683 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
10684 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10686 o Minor features (controller):
10687 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
10688 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
10691 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
10692 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
10693 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
10696 o Minor features (directory authority):
10697 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
10698 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
10699 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
10700 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
10701 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
10703 o Minor features (directory cache):
10704 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
10705 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
10708 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
10709 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
10710 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
10711 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
10713 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
10714 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
10715 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
10716 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
10718 o Minor features (infrastructure):
10719 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
10720 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
10722 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10723 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
10724 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
10725 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
10727 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
10728 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
10729 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10730 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
10731 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
10732 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
10734 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
10735 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
10736 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
10737 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
10738 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
10740 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
10741 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
10742 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
10743 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
10744 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
10746 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
10747 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
10748 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
10749 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
10750 on all recent tor versions.
10751 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
10752 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
10753 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
10754 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
10756 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
10757 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
10758 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
10760 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10761 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
10762 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
10763 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
10766 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
10767 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
10768 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
10771 o Minor bugfixes (util):
10772 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
10773 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
10774 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
10775 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
10777 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
10778 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
10779 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
10780 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
10782 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10783 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
10784 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
10785 Closes ticket 19858.
10786 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
10787 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
10788 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
10789 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
10790 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
10791 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
10792 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
10793 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
10794 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
10795 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
10796 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
10797 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
10798 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
10799 redundant with the similar structures used in the
10800 channel abstraction.
10801 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
10802 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
10803 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
10804 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
10805 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
10806 replaced with code automatically generated by the
10810 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
10811 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10812 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
10813 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
10815 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
10816 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
10818 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
10819 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
10820 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
10821 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
10822 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
10825 o Removed features:
10826 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
10827 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
10828 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
10830 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
10831 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
10832 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
10835 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
10836 from "overcaffeinated".
10837 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
10838 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
10839 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
10840 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
10841 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
10845 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
10846 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
10847 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
10848 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
10849 become available for their systems.
10851 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
10854 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
10855 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
10857 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
10858 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
10859 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
10860 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
10861 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
10862 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
10863 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
10864 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
10865 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
10867 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
10868 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
10869 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
10870 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
10871 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
10873 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
10874 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10878 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
10879 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
10881 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
10882 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
10883 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
10884 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
10885 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
10886 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
10887 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
10888 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
10890 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
10892 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
10893 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
10894 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
10895 become available for their systems.
10897 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
10898 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
10900 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
10901 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
10902 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
10903 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
10904 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
10905 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
10906 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
10907 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
10908 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
10910 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
10911 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
10912 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
10913 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
10914 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
10917 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
10918 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
10919 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
10922 o Minor features (geoip):
10923 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
10926 o Minor bugfix (build):
10927 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
10928 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
10929 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
10931 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10932 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
10933 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
10934 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10936 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
10937 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
10938 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
10940 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10941 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
10942 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
10945 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
10946 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
10947 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10948 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
10949 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
10950 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
10952 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10953 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
10954 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
10955 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
10957 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10958 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
10959 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
10961 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
10962 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
10963 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
10964 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
10965 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
10966 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
10967 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10968 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
10969 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
10970 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
10973 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
10974 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
10975 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
10976 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
10979 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10980 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
10981 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
10982 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
10983 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
10984 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
10987 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
10988 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
10989 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
10992 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
10993 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
10994 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
10995 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
10997 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
10998 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
10999 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
11000 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
11003 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
11004 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
11005 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
11006 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
11009 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
11010 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
11011 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
11014 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
11015 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
11016 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11018 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
11019 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
11020 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
11022 o Minor features (geoip):
11023 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11026 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
11027 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
11028 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
11029 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
11030 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
11032 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
11033 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
11034 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
11035 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
11036 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
11037 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11039 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
11040 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
11041 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11043 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11044 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
11045 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
11046 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
11047 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
11048 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
11050 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11051 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
11052 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
11054 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
11055 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
11057 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
11058 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
11059 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
11060 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
11061 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
11062 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
11064 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
11065 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
11066 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
11070 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
11071 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
11074 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
11075 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
11076 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
11077 everyone to test this release.
11079 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
11080 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
11081 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
11082 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
11085 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
11086 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
11087 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
11088 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
11091 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
11092 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
11093 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
11094 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
11095 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11096 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
11097 download, stop waiting for certificates.
11098 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
11099 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
11100 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
11102 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
11103 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
11104 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
11105 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11106 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
11107 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11108 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
11109 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
11110 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11111 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
11112 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
11113 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
11115 o Minor features (geoip):
11116 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11119 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
11120 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
11121 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
11122 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
11123 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
11124 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11126 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
11127 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
11128 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
11129 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11130 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
11131 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11133 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11134 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
11135 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
11136 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
11139 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11140 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
11141 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
11142 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
11143 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
11144 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11145 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
11146 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11148 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
11149 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
11150 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11152 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11153 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
11154 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
11155 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
11156 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11157 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
11158 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
11159 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11161 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
11162 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
11163 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
11166 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11167 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
11168 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11171 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
11172 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11173 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
11174 tickets 19287 and 19290.
11177 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
11178 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
11179 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
11180 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
11181 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
11184 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
11185 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
11186 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
11187 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
11188 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
11189 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
11190 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
11191 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
11192 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
11194 o Minor features (geoip):
11195 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11199 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
11200 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
11201 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
11202 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
11203 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
11206 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
11207 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
11208 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
11209 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
11210 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
11211 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
11212 be a release candidate.
11214 o Major features (security fixes):
11215 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
11216 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
11217 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
11218 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
11219 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
11220 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
11221 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
11222 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
11224 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
11225 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
11226 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
11227 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
11228 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
11229 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
11230 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
11231 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
11232 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
11233 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
11234 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
11235 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
11236 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
11237 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
11240 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
11241 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
11242 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
11244 o Minor features (client, directory):
11245 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
11246 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
11247 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
11250 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
11251 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
11254 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
11255 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
11256 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
11259 o Minor features (geoip):
11260 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11263 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
11264 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
11265 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
11266 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
11267 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
11269 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
11270 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
11271 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
11272 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
11275 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
11276 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
11277 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
11278 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
11279 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
11281 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
11282 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
11283 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
11286 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
11287 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
11288 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
11289 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
11291 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
11292 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
11293 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
11294 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
11296 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
11297 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
11298 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
11299 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
11302 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
11303 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
11304 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
11308 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
11309 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
11311 o Required libraries:
11312 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
11313 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
11314 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
11317 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
11318 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
11319 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
11320 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
11321 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
11322 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
11323 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
11324 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
11326 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
11327 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
11328 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
11329 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
11330 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
11331 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11333 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
11334 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
11335 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
11336 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
11337 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
11340 o Major features (circuit building, security):
11341 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
11342 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
11343 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
11345 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
11346 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
11348 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
11349 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
11350 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
11351 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
11352 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
11353 connections to their introduction and renzedvous points. One-hop
11354 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
11355 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
11356 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
11357 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
11358 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
11360 o Major features (resource management):
11361 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
11362 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
11363 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
11364 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
11365 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
11366 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
11368 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
11369 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
11370 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
11371 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
11373 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
11374 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
11375 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
11376 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11378 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
11379 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
11380 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
11381 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
11382 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
11383 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
11385 o Minor features (security, TLS):
11386 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
11387 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
11388 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
11389 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
11391 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
11392 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
11393 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
11394 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
11396 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
11397 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11400 o Minor feature (port flags):
11401 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
11402 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
11403 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
11404 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
11405 18693; patch by "teor".
11407 o Minor features (directory authority):
11408 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
11409 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
11410 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
11412 o Minor features (testing):
11413 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
11414 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
11415 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
11416 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
11418 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
11419 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
11420 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
11421 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
11422 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
11423 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
11424 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
11425 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
11426 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
11428 o Minor features (Tor2web):
11429 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
11430 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
11431 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
11433 o Minor features (unit tests):
11434 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
11435 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
11436 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
11437 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
11438 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
11439 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
11440 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
11441 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
11443 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
11444 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
11445 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
11446 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
11447 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
11448 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
11449 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
11450 assertion as a test failure.
11452 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
11453 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
11454 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
11455 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
11456 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
11457 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
11459 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
11460 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
11461 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
11462 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
11463 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
11464 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
11465 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
11466 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
11467 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
11468 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
11469 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11470 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
11471 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
11472 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
11473 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
11474 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11476 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11477 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
11478 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
11479 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
11480 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11481 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
11482 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
11485 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11486 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
11487 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
11488 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
11489 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
11490 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
11491 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
11494 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
11495 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
11496 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
11497 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
11499 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
11500 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
11501 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
11503 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11504 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
11505 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
11506 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
11507 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
11508 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11510 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11511 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
11512 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
11513 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
11515 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
11516 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
11517 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
11519 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
11520 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
11521 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
11522 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
11523 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
11524 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
11526 o Minor bugfixes (options):
11527 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
11528 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
11530 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
11531 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
11532 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11535 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
11536 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
11537 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
11538 19678. Patch by teor.
11540 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
11541 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
11542 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
11543 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
11544 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
11545 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
11547 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
11548 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
11552 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
11553 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
11554 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
11555 who select public relays as their bridges.
11557 o Major bugfixes (crash):
11558 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
11559 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
11560 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
11561 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
11562 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11564 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
11565 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
11566 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
11567 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
11568 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
11571 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
11572 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
11573 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
11574 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
11576 o Minor features (geoip):
11577 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11581 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
11582 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
11583 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
11584 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
11585 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
11586 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
11588 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
11589 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11590 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
11592 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
11593 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
11594 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
11595 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
11596 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
11597 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11599 o Major features (user interface):
11600 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
11601 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
11602 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
11604 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
11605 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
11606 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
11607 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
11609 o Minor features (config):
11610 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
11611 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
11613 o Minor features (geoip):
11614 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11617 o Minor features (user interface):
11618 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
11619 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
11622 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
11623 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
11624 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
11626 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11627 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
11628 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
11630 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
11631 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
11632 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
11633 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11635 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
11636 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
11637 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
11640 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
11641 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
11642 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
11643 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
11645 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11646 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
11647 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11649 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
11650 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
11651 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11653 o Deprecated features:
11654 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
11655 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
11656 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
11657 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
11658 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
11659 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
11660 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
11661 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
11662 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
11663 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
11664 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
11665 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
11666 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
11667 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
11668 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
11669 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
11670 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
11671 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
11672 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
11673 and TransListenAddress.
11676 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
11677 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
11680 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
11681 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
11684 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
11685 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
11686 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
11687 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
11688 encouraged to upgrade.
11690 o Directory authority changes:
11691 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11692 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
11694 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
11695 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
11696 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
11697 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
11698 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
11699 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11701 o Minor features (geoip):
11702 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
11705 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11706 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
11707 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
11710 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
11711 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
11712 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
11713 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
11716 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
11717 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
11718 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
11719 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
11720 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
11721 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
11722 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
11723 security, correctness, and performance.
11725 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
11727 o New system requirements:
11728 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
11729 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
11730 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
11731 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
11732 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
11733 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
11734 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
11735 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
11737 o Major features (build, hardening):
11738 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
11739 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
11740 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
11741 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
11742 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
11743 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
11744 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
11745 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
11746 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
11748 o Major features (compilation):
11749 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
11750 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
11751 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
11752 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
11754 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
11755 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
11756 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
11758 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
11759 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
11760 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
11761 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
11762 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
11763 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
11764 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
11765 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
11767 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
11768 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
11769 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
11770 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
11771 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
11772 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
11773 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
11775 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
11776 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
11777 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
11778 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
11779 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
11780 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
11781 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
11783 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
11784 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
11785 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
11786 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
11787 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
11789 o Minor features (build, hardening):
11790 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
11791 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
11792 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
11793 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
11794 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
11795 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
11796 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
11797 Closes ticket 18895.
11799 o Minor features (code safety):
11800 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
11801 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
11804 o Minor features (controller):
11805 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
11806 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
11807 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
11808 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
11809 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
11810 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
11811 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
11812 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
11814 o Minor features (directory authority):
11815 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
11816 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
11817 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
11818 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
11819 Implements ticket 18624.
11820 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
11821 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
11822 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
11825 o Minor features (hidden service):
11826 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
11827 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
11828 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
11831 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
11832 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
11833 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
11834 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
11835 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
11836 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
11837 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
11838 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
11839 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
11840 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
11841 Closes ticket 18365.
11843 o Minor features (logging):
11844 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
11845 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
11846 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
11847 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
11848 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
11849 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
11850 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
11851 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
11852 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
11853 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
11855 o Minor features (performance):
11856 - Changer the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
11857 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
11858 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
11859 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
11860 from. Changing this default When fetching a consensus for the
11861 first time, use optimistic data. This saves a round-trip during
11862 startup. Closes ticket 18815.
11864 o Minor features (relay, usability):
11865 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
11866 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
11867 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
11868 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
11871 o Minor features (testing):
11872 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
11873 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11874 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
11875 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
11876 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
11877 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
11878 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
11879 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
11882 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
11883 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
11884 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
11885 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
11886 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11888 o Minor bugfixes (build):
11889 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
11890 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
11891 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
11892 patch from "cypherpunks".
11894 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
11895 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
11896 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11898 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11899 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
11900 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
11901 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11903 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11904 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
11905 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
11906 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11907 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
11908 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
11909 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
11910 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
11912 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11913 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
11914 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
11915 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
11916 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
11917 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
11918 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
11920 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
11921 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
11922 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
11925 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
11926 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
11927 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
11929 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
11930 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
11931 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
11934 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
11935 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
11936 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
11937 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
11940 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11941 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
11942 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
11944 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11945 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
11946 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
11949 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11950 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
11951 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
11952 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
11953 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
11954 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
11955 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11956 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
11957 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
11960 o Minor bugfixes (time):
11961 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
11962 bugfix on all released tor versions.
11963 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
11964 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
11965 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
11966 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11968 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
11969 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
11970 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
11971 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
11972 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
11974 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
11975 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11977 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11978 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
11980 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
11981 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
11982 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
11983 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
11986 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
11987 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
11989 o Removed features:
11990 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
11991 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
11992 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
11993 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
11994 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
11995 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
11996 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
11999 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
12000 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
12001 command-line options to enable them.
12002 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
12003 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
12006 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
12008 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
12010 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
12011 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
12012 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
12013 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
12014 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
12015 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
12017 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
12019 o Minor features (geoip):
12020 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
12023 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12024 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
12025 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12027 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12028 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
12029 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
12030 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
12032 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12033 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
12034 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
12035 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
12036 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
12037 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
12038 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
12039 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12042 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
12043 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
12044 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
12045 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
12046 against previous versions.
12048 o Directory authority changes:
12049 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
12051 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
12052 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
12053 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
12054 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
12056 o Minor features (build):
12057 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
12058 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
12059 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
12060 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
12061 Patch from intrigeri.
12063 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
12064 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
12065 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
12068 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
12069 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
12070 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
12071 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
12072 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
12075 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12076 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
12077 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
12078 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
12079 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
12080 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
12081 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
12083 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
12084 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
12085 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
12086 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
12088 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
12089 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
12090 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
12091 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
12092 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
12093 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12095 o Fallback directory list:
12096 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
12097 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
12098 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
12099 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
12100 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
12101 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
12102 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
12103 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
12104 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
12107 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
12108 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
12109 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
12110 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
12113 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
12114 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
12115 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
12116 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12118 o Minor features (build):
12119 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
12120 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
12122 o Minor features (geoip):
12123 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
12126 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12127 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
12128 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12130 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
12131 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
12132 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
12133 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
12137 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
12138 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
12139 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
12140 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
12141 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
12144 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
12145 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
12146 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
12147 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
12148 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12150 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
12151 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
12152 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
12153 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
12154 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
12155 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
12157 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
12158 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
12159 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
12160 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12162 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
12163 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
12164 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
12165 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
12166 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
12167 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
12168 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
12170 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
12171 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
12173 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
12174 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
12175 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
12177 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
12178 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
12179 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
12180 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
12181 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
12182 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12185 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
12186 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
12187 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
12190 o Major bugfixes (key management):
12191 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
12192 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
12193 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
12194 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
12195 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
12196 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
12199 o Major bugfixes (testing):
12200 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
12201 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
12202 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
12203 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12205 o Minor features (clients):
12206 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
12207 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
12208 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
12210 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12211 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
12212 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
12213 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
12214 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
12215 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
12216 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
12217 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
12218 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
12219 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
12221 o Minor features (geoip):
12222 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
12225 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
12226 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
12227 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
12230 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
12231 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
12232 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
12234 o Minor bugfixes (build):
12235 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
12236 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
12238 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
12239 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
12241 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
12242 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
12245 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12246 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
12247 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
12248 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
12249 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12250 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
12251 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
12252 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12254 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
12255 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
12256 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
12257 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
12258 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12260 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
12261 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
12262 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
12263 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12264 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
12265 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
12268 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
12269 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
12270 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
12271 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
12272 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
12273 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12275 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12276 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
12277 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
12278 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12279 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
12280 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12281 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
12282 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12284 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
12285 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
12286 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
12287 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12289 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
12290 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
12291 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
12292 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
12293 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
12294 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
12297 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
12298 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
12299 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
12301 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
12302 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
12303 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
12305 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
12306 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
12307 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
12309 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12310 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
12311 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
12312 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
12313 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
12314 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
12315 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12317 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
12318 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
12319 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
12320 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
12323 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
12324 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
12325 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
12326 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
12329 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
12330 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
12331 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
12332 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
12333 directory support should also be much improved.
12335 o New system requirements:
12336 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
12337 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
12338 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
12339 longer runs with, these versions.
12340 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
12341 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
12342 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
12344 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
12345 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
12346 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
12347 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
12348 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
12350 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
12351 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
12352 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
12353 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
12354 Reported by Guido Vranken.
12356 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
12357 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
12358 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
12359 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
12360 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
12362 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
12363 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
12364 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
12365 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12367 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
12368 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
12369 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12370 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
12371 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12373 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
12374 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
12375 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
12376 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
12377 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
12378 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12381 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
12382 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
12383 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12385 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
12386 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
12387 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
12388 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
12391 o Major bugfixes (voting):
12392 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
12393 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
12394 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
12395 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
12397 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
12398 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
12399 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
12400 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12401 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
12402 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
12403 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
12404 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
12405 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
12406 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12408 o Minor features (security, win32):
12409 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
12410 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
12413 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
12414 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
12415 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
12416 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
12418 o Minor features (build):
12419 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
12420 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
12421 Steven Chamberlain.
12423 o Minor features (code hardening):
12424 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
12425 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
12426 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
12429 o Minor features (crypto):
12430 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
12431 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
12434 o Minor features (geoip):
12435 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
12438 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
12439 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
12440 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
12441 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
12442 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
12444 o Minor features (IPv6):
12445 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
12446 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
12447 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
12448 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
12449 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
12450 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
12451 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
12453 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12454 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
12455 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
12456 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
12457 while fixing 18548.
12459 o Minor features (robustness):
12460 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
12461 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
12462 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
12464 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
12465 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
12466 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
12467 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
12468 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
12469 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
12470 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
12473 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
12474 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
12475 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
12476 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
12477 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
12479 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
12480 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
12481 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
12482 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
12484 o Minor bugfixes (build):
12485 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
12486 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
12488 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
12489 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
12490 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12491 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
12492 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
12493 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
12495 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
12496 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
12497 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
12498 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
12499 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12501 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12502 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
12503 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
12504 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
12507 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12508 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
12509 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12511 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
12512 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
12513 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
12514 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
12516 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12517 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
12518 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
12519 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
12520 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
12521 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12523 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
12524 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
12525 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
12526 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
12528 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
12529 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
12530 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
12531 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
12532 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
12534 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
12535 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
12536 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
12537 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
12538 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
12539 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
12540 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
12541 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
12542 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
12545 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
12546 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
12547 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
12548 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12550 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
12551 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
12552 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
12554 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12555 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
12556 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
12557 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12558 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
12559 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
12560 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12561 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
12562 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12564 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12565 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
12566 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
12567 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
12568 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
12569 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
12570 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
12571 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
12572 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
12573 Christian, patch by teor.
12575 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
12576 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
12577 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
12578 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
12580 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
12581 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
12582 patch by "cypherpunks".
12583 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
12585 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
12586 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12588 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
12589 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
12590 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
12591 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
12593 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
12594 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
12595 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
12598 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12599 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
12600 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
12601 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
12602 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
12603 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12605 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
12606 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
12607 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
12608 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
12610 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
12611 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
12612 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
12613 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
12615 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12616 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
12617 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
12618 17744. Patch from zerosion.
12619 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
12620 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
12621 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
12622 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
12623 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
12626 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
12627 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
12628 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
12630 o Removed features:
12631 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
12632 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
12633 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
12636 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
12638 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
12639 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
12642 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
12643 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
12644 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
12645 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
12646 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
12648 o Major features (security, Linux):
12649 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
12650 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
12651 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
12652 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
12653 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
12655 o Major features (directory system):
12656 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
12657 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
12658 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
12659 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
12660 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
12661 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
12662 "mikeperry" and "teor".
12663 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
12664 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
12665 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
12666 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
12667 15775. Patch by "teor".
12668 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
12669 "gsathya", and "karsten".
12670 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
12671 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
12672 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
12673 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
12674 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
12677 o Major key updates:
12678 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
12679 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
12682 o Minor features (security, clock):
12683 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
12684 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
12685 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
12686 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
12688 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
12689 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
12690 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
12691 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
12692 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
12693 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12695 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
12696 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
12697 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
12698 Implements ticket 17026.
12699 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
12700 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
12701 Implements feature 17986.
12702 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
12703 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
12704 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
12705 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
12706 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
12707 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
12710 o Minor features (security, RNG):
12711 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
12712 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
12713 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
12714 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
12715 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
12716 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
12717 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
12718 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
12719 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
12720 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
12723 o Minor features (accounting):
12724 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
12725 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
12726 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
12727 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
12729 o Minor features (build):
12730 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
12731 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
12732 patch from "cypherpunks."
12733 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
12734 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
12735 17549, 17921, and 17984.
12737 o Minor features (controller):
12738 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
12739 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
12740 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
12741 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
12742 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
12743 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
12744 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
12745 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
12748 o Minor features (crypto):
12749 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
12751 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
12752 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
12753 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
12754 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
12755 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
12756 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
12757 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
12758 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
12760 o Minor features (directory downloads):
12761 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
12762 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
12763 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
12764 17864; patch by "teor".
12765 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
12766 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
12767 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
12769 o Minor features (geoip):
12770 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
12773 o Minor features (IPv6):
12774 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
12775 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
12776 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
12777 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
12778 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
12779 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
12780 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
12781 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
12782 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
12783 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
12784 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
12786 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
12787 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12788 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
12789 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
12791 o Minor features (logging):
12792 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
12793 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
12794 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
12795 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
12798 o Minor features (portability):
12799 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
12800 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
12802 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
12803 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
12804 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
12805 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
12806 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
12808 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
12809 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
12810 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
12811 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
12812 Resolves ticket 17951.
12814 o Minor features (replay cache):
12815 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
12816 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
12818 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
12819 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
12820 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
12821 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
12822 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
12823 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
12824 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
12825 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
12826 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
12827 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
12828 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
12829 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
12830 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
12831 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
12833 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
12834 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
12835 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
12836 from "unixninja92".
12838 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12839 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
12840 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
12841 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
12842 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
12843 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
12845 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
12848 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12849 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
12850 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
12851 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12852 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
12853 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
12854 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12855 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
12857 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
12858 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
12859 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
12860 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
12861 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
12862 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
12863 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
12864 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
12866 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
12867 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
12869 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
12870 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
12871 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12873 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
12874 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
12875 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
12876 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12878 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
12879 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
12880 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
12882 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12883 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
12884 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
12886 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12887 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
12888 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
12889 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
12890 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
12892 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
12893 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12895 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12896 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
12897 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
12900 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
12901 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
12902 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
12903 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
12904 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
12905 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
12907 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
12908 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
12909 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
12910 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
12911 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
12913 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
12914 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
12915 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
12918 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
12919 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
12920 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
12921 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12922 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
12923 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
12924 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
12925 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
12928 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12929 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
12930 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
12931 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
12932 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
12933 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12934 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
12935 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
12936 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
12937 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
12939 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
12940 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
12942 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12943 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
12944 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
12945 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
12946 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
12947 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
12948 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
12949 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
12950 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
12951 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
12953 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
12954 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
12955 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
12956 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
12958 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
12959 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
12960 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
12961 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
12962 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
12964 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
12965 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
12968 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
12969 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
12970 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
12971 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
12972 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
12973 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
12974 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
12977 o Removed features:
12978 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
12979 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
12980 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
12981 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
12982 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
12985 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
12986 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
12987 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
12988 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
12989 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
12990 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
12991 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
12992 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
12993 portion of ticket 16831.
12994 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
12995 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
12996 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
12998 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
12999 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
13002 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
13003 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
13004 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
13006 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
13007 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
13008 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
13009 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
13010 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
13011 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
13014 o Minor features (geoip):
13015 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13018 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13019 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
13020 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
13021 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
13022 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
13023 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
13025 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13026 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
13027 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
13028 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
13029 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
13030 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
13031 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
13032 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13033 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
13034 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13037 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
13038 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
13039 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
13040 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
13041 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
13042 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
13043 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
13044 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
13045 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
13046 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
13047 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
13048 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
13049 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
13050 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
13051 that would make him proud.
13053 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
13055 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
13056 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
13057 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
13058 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
13059 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
13060 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
13061 of Tor invoke which others.
13063 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
13066 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
13067 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
13068 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
13069 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
13070 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
13071 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
13072 release will the the official stable release.
13074 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
13075 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
13076 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
13077 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
13078 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
13081 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
13082 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
13083 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
13085 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
13086 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
13087 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13088 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
13089 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
13090 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
13091 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
13093 o Minor features (geoIP):
13094 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13097 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13098 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
13099 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
13100 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
13101 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13102 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
13103 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
13105 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13106 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
13107 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
13110 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
13111 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
13112 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
13113 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
13115 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13116 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
13117 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
13118 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
13119 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
13120 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
13121 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
13122 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
13123 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
13124 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
13125 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
13129 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
13130 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
13134 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
13135 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
13136 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
13137 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
13138 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
13140 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
13141 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
13142 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
13143 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
13145 o Major features (security, hidden services):
13146 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
13147 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
13148 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
13149 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
13150 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
13151 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
13152 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
13154 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
13155 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
13156 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
13157 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
13158 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
13159 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
13162 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
13163 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
13164 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
13165 available. Implements ticket 16535.
13166 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
13167 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
13170 o Major features (performance testing):
13171 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
13172 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
13173 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
13175 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
13176 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
13177 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
13178 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
13180 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
13181 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
13182 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
13183 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
13184 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
13185 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
13187 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
13188 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
13190 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
13191 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
13192 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
13193 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
13194 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
13196 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
13197 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
13198 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
13199 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
13200 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
13201 own. Implements feature 15482.
13202 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
13203 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
13205 o Minor features (compilation):
13206 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
13207 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
13208 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
13209 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
13210 which started requiring ECC.
13212 o Minor features (geoip):
13213 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13216 o Minor features (hidden services):
13217 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
13218 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
13219 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
13220 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
13221 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
13222 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
13223 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
13224 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
13226 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
13227 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
13228 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
13231 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
13232 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
13233 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
13234 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
13236 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
13237 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
13238 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
13239 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
13240 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
13242 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
13243 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
13244 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
13245 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
13246 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13247 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
13248 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
13249 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
13250 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
13251 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
13252 Related to ticket 16069.
13253 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
13254 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
13255 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
13256 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
13257 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
13258 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13260 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
13261 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
13262 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13263 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
13264 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
13266 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
13267 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
13268 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13270 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
13271 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
13272 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
13273 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13275 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13276 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
13277 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
13278 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
13279 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13281 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
13282 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
13283 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
13284 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
13285 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
13286 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
13287 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
13288 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
13289 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
13290 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
13291 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
13294 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
13295 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
13296 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13298 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13299 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
13300 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13301 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
13302 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13304 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
13305 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
13306 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
13307 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
13309 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13310 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
13311 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
13313 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
13314 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13315 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
13316 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
13317 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
13318 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13319 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
13320 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13322 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13323 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
13324 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
13325 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
13326 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
13328 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
13329 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
13332 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13333 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
13334 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
13335 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
13336 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
13337 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
13338 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
13339 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
13340 function. Closes ticket 16763.
13341 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
13342 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
13343 suite of other microdesc functions.
13344 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
13345 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
13346 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
13347 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
13348 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
13349 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
13350 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
13351 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
13352 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
13353 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
13355 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
13356 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
13358 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
13361 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
13362 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
13363 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
13364 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
13368 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
13369 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
13370 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
13371 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
13372 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
13373 Closes ticket 13338.
13374 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
13375 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
13376 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
13377 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
13378 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
13379 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
13382 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
13383 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
13384 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
13385 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
13386 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
13387 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
13388 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
13390 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
13391 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
13392 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
13393 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
13394 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
13395 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
13396 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
13397 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
13398 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
13399 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
13400 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
13401 network before we begin.
13402 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
13403 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
13404 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
13405 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
13406 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
13407 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
13408 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
13409 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
13412 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
13413 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
13414 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
13415 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
13416 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
13417 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
13419 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
13420 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
13421 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
13423 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
13424 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
13425 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
13426 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
13427 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
13428 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
13429 Implements part of ticket 12498.
13430 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
13431 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
13432 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
13433 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
13434 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
13435 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
13436 part of ticket 12498.
13437 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
13438 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
13439 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
13440 key). Closes ticket 13642.
13442 o Major features (Hidden services):
13443 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
13444 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
13445 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
13446 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
13447 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
13449 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
13450 introduction points, which used to change the number of
13451 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
13452 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
13454 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
13455 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
13456 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
13457 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
13458 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
13459 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
13461 o Major features (performance):
13462 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
13463 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
13464 Implements ticket 16467.
13465 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
13466 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
13467 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
13468 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
13470 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
13471 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
13472 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
13473 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
13474 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
13475 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
13477 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
13478 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
13479 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
13480 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
13481 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
13482 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
13483 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
13484 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
13487 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13488 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
13489 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
13490 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
13491 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
13492 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
13493 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
13496 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
13497 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
13498 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
13499 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
13500 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
13501 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
13503 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
13504 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
13505 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
13506 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
13507 by "cypherpunks_backup".
13508 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
13509 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
13510 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
13513 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
13514 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
13515 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
13516 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
13517 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
13518 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
13519 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
13521 o Minor features (client):
13522 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
13523 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
13524 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
13526 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
13527 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
13528 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
13529 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13530 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
13531 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
13532 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
13535 o Minor features (control protocol):
13536 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
13537 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
13539 o Minor features (directory authorities):
13540 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
13541 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
13542 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
13543 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
13544 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
13546 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
13547 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13548 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13550 o Minor features (hidden services):
13551 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
13552 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
13553 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
13554 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
13557 o Minor features (portability):
13558 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
13559 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
13560 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
13562 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
13563 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
13564 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
13565 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
13567 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13568 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
13569 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
13570 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13572 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
13573 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
13574 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
13575 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
13576 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
13577 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
13579 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13580 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
13581 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
13582 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13583 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
13584 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
13585 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13587 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13588 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
13589 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13591 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
13592 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
13593 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
13594 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
13596 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
13597 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
13598 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
13599 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
13601 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
13602 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
13605 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13606 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
13607 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
13608 from "cypherpunks".
13610 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
13611 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
13612 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13613 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
13614 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
13615 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13617 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
13618 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
13619 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13621 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
13622 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
13623 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
13625 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
13626 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
13627 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13628 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
13629 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13630 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
13631 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
13632 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
13633 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13635 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13636 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
13637 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
13638 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
13639 haven't supported that in ages.
13640 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
13641 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
13642 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
13643 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
13646 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
13647 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
13648 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
13649 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
13650 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
13651 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
13653 o Removed features:
13654 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
13655 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
13656 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
13657 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
13658 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
13659 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
13660 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
13661 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
13662 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
13663 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
13664 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
13665 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
13666 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
13667 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
13668 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
13669 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
13670 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
13673 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
13674 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
13675 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
13676 Closes ticket 15817.
13677 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
13678 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
13680 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
13681 default as a part of "make check".
13682 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
13683 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
13684 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
13685 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
13689 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
13690 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
13691 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
13692 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
13693 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
13694 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
13696 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
13697 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
13698 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
13699 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
13700 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
13701 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
13702 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
13703 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
13706 o Major bugfixes (stability):
13707 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
13708 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
13709 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
13710 by "cypherpunks_backup".
13711 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
13712 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
13713 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
13716 o Minor features (geoip):
13717 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13718 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13720 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
13721 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
13722 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
13723 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
13724 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
13725 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
13727 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13728 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
13729 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
13730 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
13733 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
13734 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
13735 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
13736 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
13737 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
13739 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
13740 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
13741 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
13742 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
13743 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
13746 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
13747 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
13748 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
13749 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
13750 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
13751 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
13752 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
13754 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13755 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
13756 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
13757 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
13759 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13760 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
13761 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
13762 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
13763 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
13764 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
13767 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
13768 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
13769 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
13772 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
13773 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
13774 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
13775 authorities should upgrade.
13777 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13778 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
13779 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
13780 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
13783 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
13784 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
13785 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
13788 o Minor features (geoip):
13789 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13790 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13794 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
13795 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
13796 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
13797 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
13798 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
13799 the hidden services subsystem.
13801 o New system requirements:
13802 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
13803 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
13806 o Major features (controller):
13807 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
13808 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
13810 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
13811 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
13812 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
13813 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
13814 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
13815 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
13816 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
13818 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
13819 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
13820 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
13821 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
13824 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
13825 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
13826 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
13827 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
13828 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
13830 o Minor features (command-line interface):
13831 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
13832 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13833 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
13834 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
13836 o Minor features (controller):
13837 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
13838 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
13839 present. Implements ticket 14840.
13840 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
13841 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
13842 Closes ticket 14845.
13843 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
13844 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
13845 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
13847 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
13848 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
13849 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
13850 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
13852 o Minor features (geoip):
13853 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
13854 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
13857 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
13858 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
13859 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
13860 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
13861 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
13862 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
13863 Closes ticket 15745.
13865 o Minor features (logging):
13866 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
13867 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
13870 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
13871 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
13872 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
13873 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
13875 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
13876 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
13877 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
13878 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
13879 Resolves ticket 15435.
13881 o Minor features (testing):
13882 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
13883 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
13884 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
13885 files. Closes ticket 15180.
13886 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
13887 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
13888 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
13889 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
13890 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
13891 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
13892 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
13893 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
13894 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
13895 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
13896 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
13897 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
13899 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13900 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
13901 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
13904 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
13905 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
13906 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
13908 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
13909 stderr, not stdout.
13911 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
13912 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
13913 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
13914 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
13915 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
13916 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
13917 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
13918 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
13920 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13921 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
13922 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
13924 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
13925 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
13926 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
13929 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13930 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
13931 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
13933 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
13934 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13936 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
13937 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
13938 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
13939 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
13942 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
13943 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
13944 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
13945 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
13946 recent enough Clang.
13948 o Minor bugfixes (network):
13949 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
13950 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
13951 unsuitable for public communications.
13953 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
13954 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
13955 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
13956 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
13957 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
13958 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
13960 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
13961 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
13962 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
13963 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
13964 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
13965 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
13966 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
13967 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
13969 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13970 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
13971 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
13973 - Set the severity correctly when testing
13974 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
13975 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
13976 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
13977 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
13979 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13980 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
13981 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
13983 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
13984 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
13985 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
13986 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
13987 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
13990 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
13991 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
13993 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
13994 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13995 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
13996 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
13997 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
14000 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
14001 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
14002 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
14003 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
14004 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
14005 Closes ticket 14922.
14007 o Removed features:
14008 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
14009 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
14010 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
14011 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
14012 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
14013 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
14014 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
14015 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
14016 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
14017 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
14018 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
14021 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
14022 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
14023 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
14024 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
14025 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
14027 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
14028 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
14030 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
14031 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
14032 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
14033 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
14034 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
14035 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
14036 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
14038 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
14039 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
14040 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
14041 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
14042 Resolves ticket 15515.
14045 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
14046 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
14047 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
14048 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
14049 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
14051 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
14052 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
14054 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
14055 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
14056 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
14057 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
14058 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
14059 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
14060 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
14062 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
14063 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
14064 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
14065 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
14066 Resolves ticket 15515.
14069 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
14070 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
14071 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
14072 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
14073 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
14075 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
14076 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
14078 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
14079 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
14080 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
14081 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
14082 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
14083 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
14084 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
14086 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
14087 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
14088 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
14089 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
14090 Resolves ticket 15515.
14091 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
14092 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
14093 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
14097 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
14098 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
14100 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
14101 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
14102 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
14103 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
14104 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
14105 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
14106 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
14107 bugs should be addressed.
14109 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14110 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
14111 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
14112 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
14114 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
14115 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
14116 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
14118 o Major bugfixes (client):
14119 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
14120 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
14123 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
14124 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
14125 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
14126 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
14127 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
14128 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14130 o Major bugfixes (portability):
14131 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
14132 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
14135 o Minor features (heartbeat):
14136 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
14137 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
14138 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
14139 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
14141 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14142 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
14143 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
14146 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
14147 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
14149 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
14150 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
14151 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
14153 o Directory authority changes:
14154 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
14155 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
14156 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
14157 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
14158 closes ticket 14487.
14160 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
14161 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
14162 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
14165 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
14166 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
14167 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
14168 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
14169 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
14170 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
14171 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
14172 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14174 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
14175 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
14176 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
14177 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
14179 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14180 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
14181 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
14182 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
14184 o Minor features (controller):
14185 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
14186 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
14187 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
14189 o Minor features (geoip):
14190 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
14191 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14194 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
14195 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
14196 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
14197 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14198 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
14199 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14201 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14202 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
14203 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
14204 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
14206 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14207 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
14208 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
14209 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
14210 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
14211 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
14212 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
14213 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14215 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
14216 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
14217 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14219 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
14220 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
14221 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
14222 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
14223 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
14227 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
14228 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
14229 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
14232 o Directory authority changes:
14233 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
14234 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
14235 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
14236 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
14237 closes ticket 14487.
14239 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
14240 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
14241 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
14242 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
14244 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
14245 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
14246 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
14247 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
14248 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
14249 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
14250 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
14251 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14253 o Minor features (geoip):
14254 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
14255 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14258 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
14259 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
14260 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
14261 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
14262 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
14264 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
14265 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
14266 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
14269 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
14270 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
14271 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
14272 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
14273 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14274 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
14275 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
14276 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14278 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
14279 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
14280 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
14283 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14284 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
14285 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
14287 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
14288 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14289 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
14290 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
14291 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
14293 o Minor features (controller):
14294 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
14295 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
14296 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
14298 o Minor features (geoip):
14299 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
14300 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
14303 o Minor features (logs):
14304 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
14307 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
14308 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
14309 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
14310 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14311 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
14312 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
14313 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
14314 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
14315 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
14317 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14318 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
14320 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
14323 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14324 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
14325 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
14327 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
14328 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
14329 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
14330 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
14331 from "cypherpunks".
14332 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
14333 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
14336 o Directory authority IP change:
14337 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
14338 closes ticket 14487.
14341 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
14342 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
14343 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
14347 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
14348 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
14349 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
14350 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
14351 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
14352 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
14354 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
14355 the next version will be a release candidate.
14357 o Deprecated versions:
14358 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
14359 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
14361 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
14362 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
14363 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
14364 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
14365 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
14366 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
14368 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
14369 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
14370 Implements ticket 11485.
14372 o Major features (changed defaults):
14373 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
14374 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
14375 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
14376 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
14377 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
14378 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
14380 o Major features (directory system):
14381 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
14382 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
14383 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
14384 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
14385 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
14386 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
14387 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
14388 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
14389 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
14390 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
14391 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
14392 227. Closes ticket 10395.
14394 o Major features (guards):
14395 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
14396 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
14397 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
14398 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
14399 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
14401 o Major features (performance):
14402 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
14403 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
14404 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
14405 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
14406 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
14407 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
14408 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
14409 Implements ticket 9682.
14411 o Major features (relay):
14412 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
14413 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
14414 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
14416 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
14417 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
14418 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
14419 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
14421 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
14422 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
14423 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
14424 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
14425 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
14426 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
14427 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
14429 o Minor features (build):
14430 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
14431 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
14432 Resolves ticket 13037.
14434 o Minor features (controller):
14435 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
14436 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
14438 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
14439 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
14440 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
14441 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
14442 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
14443 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
14445 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
14446 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
14447 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
14448 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
14449 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
14450 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
14451 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
14452 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
14453 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
14454 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
14456 o Minor features (geoip):
14457 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
14458 GeoLite2 Country database.
14460 o Minor features (guard nodes):
14461 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
14462 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
14463 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
14465 o Minor features (hidden service):
14466 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
14467 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
14468 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
14469 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
14470 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
14471 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
14472 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
14473 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
14475 o Minor features (interface):
14476 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
14477 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
14478 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
14480 o Minor features (logging):
14481 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
14482 Resolves ticket 6852.
14483 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
14484 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
14485 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
14487 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
14488 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
14490 o Minor features (stability):
14491 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
14492 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
14495 o Minor features (systemd):
14496 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
14497 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
14499 o Minor features (testing networks):
14500 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
14501 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
14502 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
14503 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
14504 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
14505 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
14507 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
14508 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
14509 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
14510 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
14511 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
14513 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
14514 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
14515 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
14516 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
14517 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
14519 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
14520 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
14521 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
14522 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
14523 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
14524 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
14525 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
14526 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14528 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
14529 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
14530 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
14531 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14532 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
14533 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14534 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
14535 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
14537 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
14538 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
14539 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
14542 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
14543 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
14544 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
14545 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
14546 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
14548 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
14549 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
14550 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
14551 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
14552 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14554 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14555 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
14556 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
14557 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
14558 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
14559 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
14560 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
14561 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
14562 Addresses ticket 14188.
14563 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
14564 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
14565 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
14566 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
14567 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
14568 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
14569 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
14570 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
14571 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14573 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14574 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
14575 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
14576 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
14577 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
14578 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
14579 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
14580 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14582 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14583 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
14584 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
14585 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
14586 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
14587 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
14588 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
14589 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14590 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
14591 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14592 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
14593 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
14594 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
14596 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
14597 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
14598 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
14599 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
14600 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
14601 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
14602 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
14603 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
14604 state, and key files.
14605 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
14606 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
14609 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14610 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
14611 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
14612 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
14613 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
14614 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
14615 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
14616 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14617 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
14618 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
14619 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14621 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14622 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
14623 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14624 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
14626 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
14627 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14629 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
14630 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
14631 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
14632 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
14633 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
14634 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14636 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
14637 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
14638 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
14639 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14640 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
14641 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
14642 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14643 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
14644 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
14645 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14647 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14648 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
14649 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
14651 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
14652 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
14654 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
14655 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
14656 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
14657 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
14658 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14660 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
14661 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
14662 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
14663 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
14666 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
14667 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
14668 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
14671 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
14672 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
14673 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14675 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
14676 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
14677 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
14678 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
14679 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
14680 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
14681 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
14683 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
14684 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
14687 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
14688 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
14689 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
14691 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
14692 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
14693 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
14696 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14697 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
14698 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
14699 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
14700 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
14701 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
14702 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
14703 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
14704 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
14706 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
14707 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
14709 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
14713 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
14714 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
14715 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
14716 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
14717 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
14718 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
14720 o Downgraded warnings:
14721 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
14722 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
14724 o Removed features:
14725 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
14726 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
14727 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
14728 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
14729 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
14733 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
14734 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14735 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
14736 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
14737 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
14738 (existing behavior).
14739 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
14740 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
14741 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
14742 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
14743 Closes ticket 14107.
14744 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
14745 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
14746 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
14747 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
14749 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
14750 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
14751 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14754 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
14755 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
14756 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
14757 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
14758 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
14759 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
14761 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
14762 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
14763 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
14764 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
14766 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
14767 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
14768 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
14769 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
14770 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
14771 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
14773 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
14774 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
14775 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
14776 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
14777 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
14778 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
14779 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
14782 o Major features (hidden services):
14783 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
14784 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
14785 Closes ticket 13667.
14786 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
14787 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
14788 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
14789 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
14790 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
14791 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
14792 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
14793 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
14794 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
14795 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
14796 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
14798 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
14799 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
14800 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
14801 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
14802 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
14803 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
14806 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14807 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
14808 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
14809 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
14810 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
14811 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
14813 o Directory authority changes:
14814 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
14815 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
14816 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
14818 o Major removed features:
14819 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
14820 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
14821 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
14822 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
14824 o Minor features (client):
14825 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
14826 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
14827 Resolves ticket 13315.
14829 o Minor features (controller):
14830 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
14831 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
14834 o Minor features (geoip):
14835 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
14838 o Minor features (hidden services):
14839 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
14840 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
14841 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
14842 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
14843 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
14844 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
14846 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
14847 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
14848 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
14850 o Minor features (systemd):
14851 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
14852 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
14853 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
14854 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
14856 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
14857 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
14858 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
14859 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
14860 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
14863 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
14864 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
14865 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
14866 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
14867 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
14869 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
14870 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
14871 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
14874 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
14875 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
14876 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
14877 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
14878 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
14880 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
14881 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
14882 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14884 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14885 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
14886 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
14887 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
14888 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
14890 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
14891 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
14894 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14895 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
14896 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
14897 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
14898 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
14899 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
14900 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
14901 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
14902 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14903 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
14904 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
14905 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
14906 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
14907 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
14910 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14911 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
14912 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
14913 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
14914 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
14915 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
14917 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14918 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
14919 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
14920 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
14922 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
14923 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
14925 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
14926 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
14927 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
14928 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
14931 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
14932 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
14933 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
14934 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
14935 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
14936 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
14938 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
14939 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
14940 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
14941 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
14942 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14943 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
14944 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
14945 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
14946 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
14947 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
14948 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
14949 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
14950 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
14951 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
14952 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
14953 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
14954 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
14955 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
14956 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
14957 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14958 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
14959 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
14960 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
14961 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
14962 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
14963 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
14964 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
14965 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14966 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
14967 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
14968 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
14969 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
14971 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
14972 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
14973 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
14974 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
14975 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
14977 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14978 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
14979 with a function instead.
14980 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
14981 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
14982 Closes ticket 13172.
14983 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
14984 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
14985 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
14986 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
14987 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
14988 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
14989 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
14990 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
14991 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
14992 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
14993 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
14994 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
14998 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
14999 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
15000 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
15001 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
15002 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
15003 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
15004 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
15005 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
15006 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
15007 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
15008 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
15009 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
15012 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
15013 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
15014 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
15015 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
15016 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
15017 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
15019 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
15023 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
15024 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
15025 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
15026 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
15027 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
15028 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
15029 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
15030 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
15031 of introducing infinite download loops.
15033 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
15034 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
15035 with 0.2.5.x for now.
15037 o New compiler and system requirements:
15038 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
15039 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
15040 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
15041 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
15043 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
15044 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
15045 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
15046 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
15047 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
15048 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
15049 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
15050 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
15051 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
15053 o Removed platform support:
15054 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
15055 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
15056 Closes ticket 11446.
15058 o Major features (bridges):
15059 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
15060 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
15061 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
15064 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
15065 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
15066 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
15067 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
15070 o Major features (directory system):
15071 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
15072 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
15073 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
15074 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
15076 o Major features (sample torrc):
15077 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
15078 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
15079 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
15080 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
15081 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
15082 generally useful "sample torrc".
15084 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
15085 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
15086 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15088 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
15089 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
15090 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
15091 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
15092 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
15094 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
15095 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
15096 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
15097 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
15099 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
15100 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
15101 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
15102 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
15103 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
15104 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
15107 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
15108 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
15109 document. Implements feature 10427.
15111 o Minor features (client):
15112 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
15113 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
15114 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
15115 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
15117 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15118 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
15119 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
15120 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
15121 argument more than once.
15122 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
15123 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
15124 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
15125 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
15126 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
15127 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
15129 o Minor features (logging):
15130 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
15131 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
15132 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
15133 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
15134 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
15135 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
15136 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
15137 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
15138 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
15140 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
15141 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
15142 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
15143 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
15145 o Minor features (relay):
15146 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
15147 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
15148 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
15150 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
15151 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
15152 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
15153 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
15155 o Minor features (testing networks):
15156 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
15157 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
15158 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
15159 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
15160 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
15163 o Minor features (validation):
15164 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
15165 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
15166 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
15167 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
15168 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
15169 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
15170 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
15171 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
15173 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
15174 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
15175 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
15176 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15178 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
15179 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
15180 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
15181 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
15183 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
15184 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
15185 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
15187 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
15188 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
15189 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
15191 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
15192 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15193 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
15194 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
15195 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
15196 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
15197 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
15199 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15200 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
15201 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
15202 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
15203 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
15204 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15205 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
15206 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
15207 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
15209 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
15210 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
15211 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
15212 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
15213 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
15215 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
15216 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
15217 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
15219 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15220 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
15221 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
15222 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
15223 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
15225 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
15226 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
15227 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
15228 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15229 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
15230 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
15231 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15232 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
15233 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
15234 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
15235 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
15238 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
15239 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
15240 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
15241 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
15242 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15244 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15245 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
15246 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
15247 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
15248 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
15251 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
15252 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
15253 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15254 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
15255 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
15256 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
15258 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15259 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
15260 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
15261 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15263 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
15264 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
15265 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
15266 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
15268 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
15269 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
15270 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
15271 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
15274 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
15275 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
15276 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
15279 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
15280 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15281 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
15282 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
15283 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
15286 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15287 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
15288 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
15290 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
15291 Resolves ticket 12205.
15292 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
15293 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
15294 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
15295 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
15297 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
15298 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
15299 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
15301 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
15302 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
15304 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
15305 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
15306 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
15307 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
15308 or_options_t structure.
15311 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
15312 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
15313 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
15314 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
15317 o Removed features:
15318 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
15319 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
15320 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
15321 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
15322 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
15323 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
15324 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
15325 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
15326 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
15328 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
15329 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
15331 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
15332 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
15333 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
15334 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
15335 anymore, and ignore it.
15338 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
15339 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
15340 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
15341 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
15342 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
15343 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
15344 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
15345 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
15346 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
15347 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
15348 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
15349 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
15351 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
15352 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
15353 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
15355 o Distribution (systemd):
15356 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
15357 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
15358 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
15359 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
15360 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
15362 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
15363 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
15365 o Removed features (directory authorities):
15366 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
15367 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
15368 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
15369 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
15370 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
15371 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
15372 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
15373 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
15374 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
15376 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
15377 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
15378 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
15379 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
15382 o Testing (test-network.sh):
15383 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
15384 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
15386 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
15388 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
15389 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
15390 Partially implements ticket 13161.
15393 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
15394 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
15396 It adds several new security features, including improved
15397 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
15398 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
15399 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
15400 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
15401 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
15402 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
15403 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
15404 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
15405 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
15406 and features mentioned below.
15408 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
15409 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
15411 o Deprecated versions:
15412 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
15413 attention for some while.
15416 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
15417 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
15418 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
15419 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
15420 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
15421 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
15423 o Major security fixes:
15424 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
15425 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
15426 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
15428 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
15429 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
15430 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
15431 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
15434 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
15435 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
15436 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
15437 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15439 o Compilation fixes:
15440 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
15441 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
15442 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
15444 o Downgraded warnings:
15445 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
15446 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
15449 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
15450 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
15451 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
15452 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
15453 (which does affect Tor).
15455 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
15456 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
15457 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
15458 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
15460 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
15461 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
15462 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
15463 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
15466 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
15467 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
15468 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
15469 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
15470 the directory authorities.
15473 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
15474 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
15475 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
15476 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
15477 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
15478 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
15479 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
15480 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
15481 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
15482 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
15483 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
15484 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15486 o Directory authority changes:
15487 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
15490 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
15491 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
15492 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
15493 the directory authorities.
15496 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
15497 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
15498 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
15499 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
15500 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
15501 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
15502 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
15503 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
15504 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
15505 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
15506 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
15507 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
15509 o Directory authority changes:
15510 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
15512 o Minor features (geoip):
15513 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
15517 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
15518 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
15519 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
15520 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
15521 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
15523 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
15524 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
15525 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
15526 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
15527 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
15528 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
15529 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15530 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
15531 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
15532 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
15533 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
15534 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
15535 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
15536 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15537 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
15538 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
15540 o Major bugfixes (relay):
15541 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
15542 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15543 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
15544 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
15545 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
15546 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
15547 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15549 o Minor features (bridge):
15550 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
15551 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
15553 o Minor features (geoip):
15554 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
15557 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15558 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
15559 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
15560 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
15561 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
15562 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
15563 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15564 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
15565 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
15566 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
15567 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
15568 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
15569 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
15570 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
15571 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
15573 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
15574 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
15575 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
15576 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
15577 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
15579 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15580 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
15581 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15582 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
15583 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
15586 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15587 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
15588 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
15589 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
15590 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
15591 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
15592 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
15593 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
15594 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
15595 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
15596 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
15599 o Distribution (systemd):
15600 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
15601 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
15602 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
15603 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
15604 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
15605 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
15606 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
15607 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
15608 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
15612 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
15613 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
15615 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
15619 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
15620 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
15621 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
15622 us closer to a release candidate.
15624 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
15625 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
15626 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
15627 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
15628 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
15630 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
15631 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
15632 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
15633 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
15634 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
15635 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
15636 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
15637 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
15638 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
15642 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
15643 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
15644 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
15645 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
15646 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
15647 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
15648 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
15649 to build circuits".
15652 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
15653 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
15654 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
15655 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
15656 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
15657 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
15658 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
15659 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
15661 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
15663 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
15664 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
15665 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
15666 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
15667 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
15668 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
15669 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
15670 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
15671 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
15672 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15675 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
15676 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
15677 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
15678 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
15680 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
15681 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
15682 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
15685 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
15686 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
15687 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
15688 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
15691 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
15692 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
15693 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
15694 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
15695 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
15696 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
15697 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
15698 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
15699 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
15700 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
15703 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
15704 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
15705 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
15706 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
15707 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
15708 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
15709 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
15710 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
15714 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
15715 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
15716 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
15717 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
15718 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
15719 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
15720 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
15721 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
15722 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15723 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
15724 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
15725 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
15726 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
15729 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
15733 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
15734 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
15735 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
15736 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
15737 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
15738 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
15741 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
15742 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
15743 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
15744 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
15745 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
15746 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
15747 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
15748 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
15749 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
15750 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
15751 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
15752 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
15753 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15755 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
15756 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
15757 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
15758 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
15761 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
15762 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
15763 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
15765 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
15766 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
15767 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
15768 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
15769 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
15770 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
15771 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
15772 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
15773 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
15774 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
15775 router's identity is not forgeable.
15777 o Major bugfixes (relay):
15778 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
15779 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
15780 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
15781 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
15782 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
15783 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
15784 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
15785 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
15786 bugfix on every version of Tor.
15788 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
15789 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
15790 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
15791 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
15794 o Minor features (diagnostic):
15795 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
15796 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
15797 help diagnose bug 7164.
15798 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
15799 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
15800 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
15801 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
15802 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
15804 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
15805 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
15806 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
15807 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
15808 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
15809 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
15810 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
15812 o Minor features (security, memory management):
15813 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
15814 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
15815 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
15816 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
15817 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
15818 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
15820 o Minor features (security):
15821 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
15822 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
15823 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
15824 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
15826 o Minor features (build):
15827 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
15828 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
15829 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
15831 o Minor features (other):
15832 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
15835 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
15836 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
15837 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
15838 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
15839 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15841 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
15842 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
15843 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
15844 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
15845 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
15846 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
15847 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
15848 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
15849 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
15850 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
15851 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
15852 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
15854 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15855 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
15856 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
15857 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
15858 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
15859 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
15860 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
15861 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
15862 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
15863 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
15864 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15865 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
15866 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
15867 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
15868 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
15869 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
15870 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
15871 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
15874 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
15875 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
15876 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
15877 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
15878 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
15879 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
15880 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
15882 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
15883 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
15884 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15885 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
15886 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15887 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
15888 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15889 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
15890 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
15892 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
15893 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
15895 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
15896 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
15898 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
15899 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
15900 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15901 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
15902 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
15903 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15904 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
15905 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
15906 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
15908 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
15909 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
15910 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
15911 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
15912 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
15913 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15914 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
15915 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
15916 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15917 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
15918 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
15919 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15920 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
15921 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
15922 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
15923 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
15924 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
15925 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15927 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
15928 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
15929 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
15930 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
15931 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
15932 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15933 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
15934 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
15935 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
15938 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15939 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
15940 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
15941 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
15942 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15944 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15945 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
15946 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
15947 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
15949 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
15950 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
15951 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
15952 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15953 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
15954 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
15955 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
15956 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
15958 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
15959 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
15960 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
15961 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
15964 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
15965 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
15966 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
15967 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
15968 versions. Found by "skruffy".
15969 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
15970 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
15971 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
15974 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
15975 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
15976 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
15977 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
15980 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
15981 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
15982 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
15983 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
15985 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
15986 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
15987 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
15989 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
15990 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
15991 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15993 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15994 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
15995 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15996 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
15997 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
16001 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
16002 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
16003 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
16004 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
16007 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
16008 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
16009 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
16010 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
16012 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
16013 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
16015 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
16016 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
16017 caches don't get confused.
16020 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
16021 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
16022 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
16023 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
16024 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
16027 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
16028 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
16029 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
16030 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
16031 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
16032 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
16036 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
16037 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
16038 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
16039 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
16040 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
16041 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
16042 of RAM, and several others.
16044 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16045 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
16046 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
16047 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
16048 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
16050 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
16051 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
16052 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
16053 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
16056 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16057 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
16058 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
16059 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
16060 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
16061 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
16062 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16063 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
16064 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
16065 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
16066 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
16067 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
16068 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
16069 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
16070 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
16071 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
16072 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
16073 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
16074 Resolves ticket 11438.
16076 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
16077 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
16078 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
16079 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
16080 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
16081 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16083 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16084 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
16085 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
16087 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16088 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
16089 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16091 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16092 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
16093 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
16094 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16096 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16097 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
16098 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
16100 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16101 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
16102 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
16105 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
16106 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
16107 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
16108 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
16111 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16112 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
16113 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
16114 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
16116 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16117 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
16118 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
16119 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
16121 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
16122 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
16123 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
16127 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
16128 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
16129 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
16130 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
16131 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
16132 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
16133 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
16134 the Linux sandbox code.
16136 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
16137 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
16138 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
16140 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
16141 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
16143 o Major features (security):
16144 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
16145 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
16146 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
16147 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
16148 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
16149 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
16150 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
16151 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
16153 o Major features (relay performance):
16154 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
16155 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
16156 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
16157 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
16158 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
16159 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
16160 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
16161 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
16162 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
16163 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
16165 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
16166 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
16167 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
16168 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
16169 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
16170 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
16171 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
16173 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
16174 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
16176 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
16177 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
16178 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
16179 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
16180 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
16181 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
16182 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16183 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
16184 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
16185 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
16186 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
16187 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
16188 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
16189 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
16190 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
16191 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
16192 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
16193 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
16194 Resolves ticket 11438.
16196 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
16197 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
16198 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
16199 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16201 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
16202 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
16203 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
16204 10267; patch from "yurivict".
16205 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
16206 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
16207 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
16208 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
16209 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
16210 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
16212 o Minor features (security):
16213 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
16214 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
16215 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
16216 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
16219 o Minor features (log verbosity):
16220 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
16221 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
16222 Resolves ticket 5286.
16223 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
16224 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
16225 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
16226 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
16227 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
16228 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
16229 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
16230 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
16231 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
16233 o Minor features (relay):
16234 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
16235 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
16236 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
16238 o Minor features (controller):
16239 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
16240 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
16242 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
16243 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
16244 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
16246 o Minor features (bridge client):
16247 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
16248 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
16249 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
16251 o Minor features (diagnostic):
16252 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
16253 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
16254 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
16255 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
16256 still referenced by a live node_t object.
16258 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
16259 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
16260 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
16261 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
16263 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
16264 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
16265 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
16266 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
16269 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
16270 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
16271 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16273 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
16274 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
16275 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
16276 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16277 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
16278 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
16279 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16281 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
16282 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
16283 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
16284 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16285 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
16286 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
16287 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16288 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
16289 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
16290 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
16291 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16292 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
16293 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
16296 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
16297 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
16298 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
16299 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
16300 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
16302 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
16303 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
16304 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
16307 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16308 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
16309 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
16311 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
16312 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
16313 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16315 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
16316 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
16317 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
16318 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16320 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
16321 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
16322 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16323 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
16324 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
16326 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
16327 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
16328 early. Fixes bug 10081.
16330 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
16331 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
16332 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16333 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
16334 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16335 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
16336 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
16337 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
16339 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
16340 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
16341 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
16342 should never have affected anyone in practice.
16344 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16345 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
16346 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16348 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
16349 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
16350 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
16351 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
16352 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
16353 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
16354 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
16355 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
16356 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
16357 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
16358 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
16359 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
16360 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
16361 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
16363 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
16364 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
16365 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
16366 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
16367 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
16368 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
16369 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
16370 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
16374 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
16375 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
16376 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
16377 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16378 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
16379 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16380 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
16381 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
16383 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
16385 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16386 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
16387 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
16388 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
16389 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
16392 o Deprecated versions:
16393 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
16394 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
16395 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
16396 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
16399 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
16400 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
16401 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
16402 Patch from Dana Koch.
16405 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
16406 Resolves ticket 11070.
16409 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
16410 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
16411 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
16412 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
16413 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
16416 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
16417 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
16419 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
16420 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
16421 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
16422 streams attached to each circuit.
16424 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
16425 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
16426 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
16427 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
16428 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
16429 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
16430 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
16431 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
16432 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
16433 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
16434 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
16435 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
16436 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
16438 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
16439 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
16440 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
16442 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
16443 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
16444 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
16445 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
16446 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
16447 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
16448 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
16449 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
16450 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
16452 o Minor features (other):
16453 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
16454 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
16455 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
16456 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
16457 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
16458 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
16459 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
16460 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
16461 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
16464 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
16465 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
16466 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
16467 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
16468 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
16469 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
16470 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
16471 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
16473 o Minor bugfixes (client):
16474 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
16475 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
16476 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
16477 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16478 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
16479 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
16480 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
16482 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
16483 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
16484 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
16485 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
16486 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
16487 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16488 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
16489 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
16490 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16491 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
16492 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
16493 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16495 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
16496 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
16497 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
16498 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
16499 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
16500 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
16501 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
16502 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
16503 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16504 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
16505 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
16506 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
16507 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
16508 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
16510 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
16511 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
16513 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
16514 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
16515 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
16516 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
16517 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
16518 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
16519 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16520 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
16521 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
16522 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
16523 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
16524 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16525 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
16526 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
16528 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16529 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
16530 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
16531 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
16534 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
16535 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
16536 the rest of bug 10841.
16539 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
16540 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
16541 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
16542 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
16543 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
16544 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
16545 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
16546 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
16547 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
16548 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
16549 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
16550 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16551 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
16552 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
16553 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16555 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16556 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
16557 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
16559 o Test infrastructure:
16560 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
16561 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
16562 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
16563 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
16566 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
16567 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
16568 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
16569 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
16571 o Major features (client security):
16572 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
16573 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
16574 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
16575 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
16576 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
16577 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
16580 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
16581 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
16582 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
16583 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16585 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16586 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
16587 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
16588 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
16589 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
16592 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
16593 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
16595 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
16596 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
16597 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
16598 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
16599 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
16600 GeoLite2 Country database.
16603 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
16604 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
16605 bugfix on every released Tor.
16606 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
16607 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
16608 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
16609 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16610 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
16611 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
16612 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
16613 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
16614 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
16615 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16616 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
16617 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
16618 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16619 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
16620 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
16622 o Documentation fixes:
16623 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
16624 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16627 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
16628 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
16629 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
16630 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
16631 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
16632 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
16633 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
16634 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
16636 o Major features (client security):
16637 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
16638 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
16639 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
16640 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
16641 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
16642 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
16643 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
16644 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
16645 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
16646 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
16647 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
16648 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
16650 o Major features (bridges):
16651 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
16652 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
16653 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
16654 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
16655 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
16656 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
16657 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
16658 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
16661 o Major features (other):
16662 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
16663 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
16664 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
16665 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
16666 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
16667 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
16668 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
16669 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
16670 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
16671 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
16672 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
16673 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
16676 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
16677 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
16678 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16679 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
16680 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
16681 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
16682 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16684 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
16685 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
16686 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
16687 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
16688 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
16689 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
16690 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
16691 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
16692 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
16694 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
16695 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16696 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
16697 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
16698 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
16699 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
16701 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
16702 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
16703 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
16704 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
16705 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
16706 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
16709 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
16710 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
16711 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
16712 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
16713 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
16714 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
16715 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
16717 o Minor features (security):
16718 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
16719 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
16722 o Minor features (config options and command line):
16723 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
16724 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
16725 Implements ticket 10060.
16726 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
16727 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
16728 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
16730 o Minor features (controller):
16731 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
16732 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
16733 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
16734 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
16735 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
16738 o Minor features (build):
16739 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
16740 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
16741 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
16742 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
16743 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
16744 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
16745 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
16747 o Minor features (testing):
16748 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
16749 the unit test scripts.
16750 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
16751 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
16752 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
16753 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
16755 o Minor features (log messages):
16756 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
16757 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
16758 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
16759 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
16760 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
16761 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
16762 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
16763 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
16764 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
16765 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
16767 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
16768 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
16769 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
16770 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
16771 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
16772 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
16773 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
16774 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
16775 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
16776 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
16778 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
16779 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
16780 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
16781 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
16784 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
16785 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
16786 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
16787 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
16788 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
16790 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
16791 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
16792 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
16793 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
16794 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
16795 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
16796 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
16798 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
16799 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
16800 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
16801 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
16802 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
16803 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
16804 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16805 Reported by "mr-4".
16806 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
16807 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
16808 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
16809 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16811 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
16812 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
16813 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
16814 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
16815 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
16816 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
16817 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
16818 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
16819 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
16820 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
16821 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16823 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16824 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
16825 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
16826 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
16827 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
16828 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
16829 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
16830 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
16831 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
16832 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
16834 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
16835 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
16836 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
16837 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
16840 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16841 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
16842 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
16843 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
16844 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
16845 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
16847 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
16848 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16850 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16851 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
16852 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
16853 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16855 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
16856 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
16857 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
16858 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16859 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
16860 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
16861 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
16862 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
16863 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
16864 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
16865 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
16866 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
16867 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
16868 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
16870 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
16871 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
16872 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16873 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
16874 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
16875 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
16877 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
16878 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
16879 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16880 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
16881 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
16882 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
16883 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
16884 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
16885 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
16886 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
16887 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
16888 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16890 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
16891 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
16892 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
16893 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
16894 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
16895 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
16896 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
16897 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
16898 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
16899 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
16900 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
16901 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
16902 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
16903 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
16904 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
16905 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
16908 o Removed code and features:
16909 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
16910 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
16911 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
16912 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
16913 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
16914 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
16916 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
16917 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
16918 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
16919 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
16920 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
16921 part of a fix for bug 10841.
16923 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16924 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
16925 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
16926 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
16927 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
16928 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
16929 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
16930 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
16931 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
16932 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
16933 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
16936 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
16937 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
16938 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
16939 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
16940 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
16942 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
16943 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
16944 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
16945 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
16946 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
16947 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
16948 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
16951 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
16952 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
16953 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
16956 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
16957 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
16958 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
16959 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
16960 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
16961 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
16962 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
16964 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
16965 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
16968 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
16969 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
16970 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
16971 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
16972 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
16973 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
16974 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
16975 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
16977 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
16978 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16979 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
16980 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
16981 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
16982 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
16985 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
16986 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16987 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
16988 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
16989 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
16992 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
16993 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
16994 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
16995 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
16996 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
16997 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
16998 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
16999 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
17001 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
17002 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
17003 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
17004 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
17005 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
17006 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
17007 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
17008 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
17009 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
17010 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
17011 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
17012 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
17013 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
17014 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
17015 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
17016 security, and privacy fixes.
17019 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
17020 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
17021 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
17022 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
17025 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
17026 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
17027 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
17028 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
17029 them to solve bug 6033.)
17032 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
17033 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
17034 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
17035 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
17036 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
17037 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17038 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
17039 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
17041 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
17042 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
17043 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
17044 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
17046 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
17047 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
17048 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17049 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
17050 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
17051 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
17052 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
17053 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
17054 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
17055 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17056 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
17057 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
17059 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
17060 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
17061 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
17062 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
17063 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
17064 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17065 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
17066 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
17067 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
17068 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
17069 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
17070 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
17071 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
17072 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
17073 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
17074 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
17077 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
17078 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
17079 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
17080 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
17081 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
17082 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
17083 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
17084 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
17085 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
17086 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
17087 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
17088 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
17089 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
17090 Implements part of proposal 222.
17092 o Minor features (other):
17093 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
17094 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
17095 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
17096 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
17097 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
17098 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
17099 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
17100 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
17101 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17103 o Documentation fixes:
17104 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
17105 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
17106 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
17107 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
17108 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
17109 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
17112 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
17113 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
17114 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
17115 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
17116 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
17117 release of the new branch.
17119 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
17120 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
17121 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
17123 o Major features (security):
17124 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
17125 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
17126 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
17127 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
17128 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
17129 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
17130 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
17131 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
17132 Google Summer of Code.
17133 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
17134 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
17135 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
17136 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
17137 them to solve bug 6033.)
17139 o Major features (other):
17140 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
17141 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
17142 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
17143 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
17144 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
17146 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
17147 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
17148 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
17149 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
17150 Implements ticket 8530.
17151 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
17152 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
17155 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
17156 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
17157 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
17158 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
17159 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
17160 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17161 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
17162 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
17163 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17164 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
17165 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
17166 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
17167 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
17170 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
17171 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
17172 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
17173 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
17174 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
17175 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
17176 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
17177 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
17178 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
17179 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
17183 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
17184 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
17185 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
17186 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
17187 invoking the other functions it calls.
17188 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
17189 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
17190 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
17191 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
17193 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
17194 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
17195 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
17196 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
17197 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
17198 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
17199 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
17200 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
17201 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
17202 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
17203 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
17204 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
17205 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
17206 Implements part of proposal 222.
17208 o Minor features (config options):
17209 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
17210 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
17211 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
17212 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
17213 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
17214 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
17215 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
17216 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
17217 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
17218 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
17219 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
17220 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
17221 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
17222 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
17223 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
17224 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
17225 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
17228 o Minor features (build):
17229 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
17230 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
17231 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
17232 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
17233 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
17236 o Minor features (other):
17237 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
17238 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
17239 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
17240 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
17241 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
17242 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
17243 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
17244 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
17245 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
17246 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
17247 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
17248 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
17249 Closes ticket 8109.
17250 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17253 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
17254 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
17255 bugfix on every released Tor.
17256 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
17257 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
17258 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
17259 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
17260 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
17261 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
17263 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
17264 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
17265 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
17266 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17267 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
17268 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
17269 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
17270 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
17272 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
17273 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
17274 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
17275 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
17276 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
17278 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
17279 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17281 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
17282 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
17283 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
17285 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
17286 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
17287 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
17288 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
17289 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17291 o Minor code improvements:
17292 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
17293 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
17295 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
17296 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
17297 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
17298 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
17299 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
17301 o Removed features:
17302 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
17303 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
17304 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
17305 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
17307 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17308 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
17309 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
17310 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
17311 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
17312 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
17313 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
17314 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
17315 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
17316 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
17317 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
17318 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
17319 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
17320 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
17321 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
17322 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
17325 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
17326 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
17327 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
17328 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
17329 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
17330 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
17331 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
17334 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
17335 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
17336 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
17337 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
17338 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
17339 Implements ticket 9574.
17342 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
17343 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
17344 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
17345 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
17346 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
17347 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
17348 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
17349 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
17350 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17351 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
17352 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
17353 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
17357 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
17358 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
17359 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
17360 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
17362 o Minor fixes (config options):
17363 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
17364 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
17365 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
17366 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
17367 message is logged at notice, not at info.
17368 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
17369 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
17370 or we just won't work.)
17373 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
17374 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
17375 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
17376 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17379 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
17380 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
17381 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
17384 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
17385 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
17386 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17387 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
17388 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17389 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
17390 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
17392 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
17393 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17394 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
17395 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
17398 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
17399 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
17400 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17401 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
17402 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
17403 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
17404 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
17405 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
17406 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
17407 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
17408 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17409 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
17410 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
17413 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17416 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
17417 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
17418 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
17419 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
17422 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
17423 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
17424 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17427 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
17428 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
17429 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
17432 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
17433 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
17434 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
17437 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
17438 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
17439 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
17440 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
17441 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
17442 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
17444 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
17445 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
17446 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
17447 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
17448 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
17449 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
17451 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
17452 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
17453 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17456 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
17457 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
17458 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
17459 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
17460 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
17462 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
17463 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
17464 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
17465 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
17466 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
17467 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
17468 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
17470 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
17471 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
17472 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
17474 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
17475 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
17479 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
17480 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
17481 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
17483 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
17484 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
17485 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
17486 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
17487 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
17488 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
17490 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
17491 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
17492 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
17493 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
17494 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
17495 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
17496 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
17499 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
17500 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
17501 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
17502 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
17503 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
17504 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
17505 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17506 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
17507 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17508 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
17509 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
17510 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17511 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
17512 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
17514 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
17515 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
17516 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
17517 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
17520 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
17521 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
17522 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
17523 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
17524 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
17525 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
17527 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
17528 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
17532 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
17533 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
17534 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
17535 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
17536 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
17537 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
17538 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17540 o Removed documentation:
17541 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
17542 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
17544 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17545 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
17546 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
17547 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
17550 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
17551 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
17552 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
17553 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
17554 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
17555 variety of other issues.
17558 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
17559 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
17560 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
17561 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
17562 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
17563 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
17564 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
17565 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
17567 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
17568 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
17569 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
17571 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
17572 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
17573 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
17574 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
17575 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
17576 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
17577 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17579 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
17580 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
17581 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
17582 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
17583 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
17584 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
17585 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
17586 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
17587 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
17588 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
17589 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
17590 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
17591 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17592 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
17593 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
17594 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
17595 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
17596 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
17597 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
17598 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
17599 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17601 o Major bugfixes (other):
17602 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
17603 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
17604 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
17605 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17608 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
17609 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
17610 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
17611 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
17613 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
17614 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
17616 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17618 o Minor features (build):
17619 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
17620 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
17622 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
17623 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
17625 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
17626 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
17627 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
17630 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17631 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
17632 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17633 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17634 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
17635 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
17636 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17637 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
17638 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
17639 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17640 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
17641 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
17642 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
17643 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
17646 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
17647 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
17648 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
17649 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
17650 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
17651 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
17652 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
17653 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
17654 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
17655 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
17656 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
17657 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
17658 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
17659 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17660 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17662 o Minor bugfixes (other):
17663 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
17664 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17665 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
17666 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
17667 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
17668 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
17669 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17670 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
17671 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
17672 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
17673 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
17674 Should help resolve bug 8235.
17675 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
17676 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
17677 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
17678 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17680 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
17681 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
17682 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
17683 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
17684 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
17685 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
17686 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
17687 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
17690 o Minor bugfixes (config):
17691 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
17692 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
17694 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
17695 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
17696 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
17697 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
17698 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
17699 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
17700 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17701 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
17702 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
17703 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
17704 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
17705 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
17706 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17707 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
17708 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
17711 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
17712 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
17713 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
17714 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
17715 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
17716 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
17717 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
17718 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
17720 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
17721 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
17722 or at least make it more diagnosable.
17723 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
17724 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
17725 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
17726 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17728 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
17729 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
17730 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
17731 the relaxed timeout log message.
17732 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
17733 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
17734 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
17736 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
17737 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
17738 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17739 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
17740 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17741 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
17742 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
17745 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
17746 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
17747 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
17748 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
17749 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17750 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
17751 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
17752 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
17753 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
17754 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
17755 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
17756 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
17757 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17758 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
17759 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
17760 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
17761 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17763 o Documentation fixes:
17764 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
17765 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
17766 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
17767 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
17768 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
17769 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
17770 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
17771 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
17774 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
17775 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
17779 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
17780 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
17781 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
17782 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
17784 o Major features (directory authorities):
17785 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
17786 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
17787 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
17788 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
17789 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
17790 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
17791 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
17792 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
17793 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
17794 Implements ticket 8151.
17796 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
17797 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
17798 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
17799 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
17800 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
17802 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17803 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
17804 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
17805 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
17806 whether authentication information is present, causing all
17807 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
17808 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
17810 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
17811 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
17812 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
17813 bugs 1913 and 1992.
17814 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
17815 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
17816 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
17817 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
17818 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
17819 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
17820 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
17821 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
17822 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
17823 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
17824 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
17825 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
17826 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
17827 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
17828 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
17829 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
17830 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
17831 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
17834 o Minor features (portability):
17835 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
17836 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17837 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
17838 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
17839 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
17840 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
17841 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
17842 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17844 o Minor features (other):
17845 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
17846 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
17847 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
17848 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
17849 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
17850 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
17851 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
17852 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
17854 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
17856 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
17857 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
17858 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
17859 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
17860 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
17861 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
17862 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
17863 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
17864 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
17865 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
17867 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
17868 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
17869 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
17870 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17872 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17873 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
17874 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
17875 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
17876 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
17877 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
17878 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
17880 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
17881 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
17882 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
17883 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
17884 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
17886 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
17887 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
17888 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
17889 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
17891 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
17892 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
17893 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
17896 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
17897 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
17898 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
17899 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
17901 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
17902 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
17903 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
17904 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17906 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
17907 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
17908 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
17909 this is CID 718634.
17910 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
17911 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
17912 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
17913 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
17915 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
17916 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
17917 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17918 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
17919 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
17920 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
17921 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
17923 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17924 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
17928 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
17929 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
17930 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
17931 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
17932 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
17935 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
17936 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
17937 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
17938 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
17940 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
17941 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
17942 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
17946 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
17947 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
17948 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
17949 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
17950 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
17951 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
17952 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
17953 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
17954 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
17955 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
17956 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
17957 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
17958 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
17961 o Major features (relay):
17962 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
17963 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
17964 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
17965 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
17966 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
17967 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
17968 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
17970 o Major features (portability):
17971 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
17972 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
17973 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
17974 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
17975 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
17978 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
17979 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
17980 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
17981 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
17982 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
17983 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
17985 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
17986 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
17987 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
17988 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
17989 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
17990 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
17991 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
17992 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
17994 o Minor features (path selection):
17995 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
17996 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
17997 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
17998 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
17999 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
18000 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
18001 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
18002 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
18003 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
18004 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
18005 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
18006 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
18007 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
18008 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
18009 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
18010 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
18011 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
18012 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
18013 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
18015 o Minor features (log messages):
18016 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
18017 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
18018 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
18019 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
18022 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
18023 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
18024 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18025 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
18026 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
18027 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
18028 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
18029 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
18030 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
18031 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
18032 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
18033 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
18035 o Build improvements:
18036 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
18037 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
18038 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
18039 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
18040 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
18041 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
18042 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
18043 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
18044 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
18045 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
18046 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
18047 than to perform erroneously.
18049 o Removed features:
18050 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
18051 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
18052 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
18054 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
18055 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
18056 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
18059 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18060 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
18062 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
18063 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
18067 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
18068 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
18069 work more robustly.
18072 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
18073 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
18074 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
18078 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
18079 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
18080 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
18081 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
18084 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
18085 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
18086 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
18087 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
18088 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
18089 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
18090 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
18091 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
18092 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
18093 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
18094 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
18095 closes ticket 7199.
18097 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
18098 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
18099 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
18100 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
18101 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
18102 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
18103 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
18104 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
18105 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
18106 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
18107 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
18109 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
18110 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
18111 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
18113 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
18114 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
18115 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
18117 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
18119 o Major features (better link encryption):
18120 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
18121 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
18122 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
18123 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
18124 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
18125 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
18128 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
18129 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
18130 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
18131 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
18132 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
18133 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
18134 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
18136 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
18137 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
18138 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
18139 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
18141 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
18144 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
18145 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
18146 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18149 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
18150 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
18151 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
18152 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
18153 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
18154 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
18155 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
18156 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
18157 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
18159 o Minor features (testing):
18160 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
18161 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
18162 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
18164 o Minor features (path bias detection):
18165 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
18166 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
18167 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
18168 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
18169 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
18170 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
18171 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
18172 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
18173 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
18174 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
18175 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
18176 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
18177 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
18178 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
18179 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
18180 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
18181 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
18182 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
18183 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
18184 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
18185 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
18186 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
18187 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
18188 detection capability loss.
18190 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
18191 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
18192 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
18193 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
18194 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18195 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
18196 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
18197 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
18200 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18201 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
18202 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
18203 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
18204 and the different handshakes it supports.
18205 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
18206 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
18207 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
18208 any encoding is overkill.
18211 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
18212 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
18213 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
18214 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
18215 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
18216 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
18217 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
18218 and fixes a variety of other issues.
18220 o Major features (client resilience):
18221 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
18222 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
18223 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
18224 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
18225 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
18226 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
18227 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
18228 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
18229 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
18230 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
18231 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
18232 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
18233 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
18234 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
18235 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
18237 o Major features (IPv6):
18238 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
18239 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
18240 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
18241 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
18242 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
18243 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
18244 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
18245 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
18247 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
18248 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
18250 o Major features (geoip database):
18251 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
18252 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
18253 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
18254 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
18255 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
18256 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
18257 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
18258 Country database, as modified above.
18260 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
18261 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
18262 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
18263 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
18264 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
18265 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
18266 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
18267 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
18268 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
18269 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
18270 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
18271 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
18272 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
18273 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
18274 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
18275 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
18276 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
18279 o Major bugfixes (other):
18280 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
18281 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
18282 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
18283 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
18284 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
18285 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
18286 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
18287 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
18289 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
18290 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
18293 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
18294 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
18295 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
18296 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
18297 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
18298 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
18299 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
18300 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
18302 o Minor features (IPv6):
18303 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
18304 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
18305 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
18306 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
18307 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
18308 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
18309 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
18310 connect to the wrong addresses.
18311 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
18312 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
18313 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
18314 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
18318 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
18319 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
18320 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
18321 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
18322 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
18323 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
18324 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
18326 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
18327 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
18328 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
18331 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
18332 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
18334 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18335 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
18336 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
18337 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
18338 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
18341 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
18342 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
18343 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
18344 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
18345 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
18346 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
18347 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
18348 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
18350 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
18351 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
18352 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
18353 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
18354 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
18355 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
18356 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
18357 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
18358 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
18359 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
18360 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
18363 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
18364 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
18365 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
18366 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
18367 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
18368 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
18369 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
18370 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
18371 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
18372 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
18375 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
18376 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
18380 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
18381 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
18382 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
18383 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
18386 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
18387 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
18389 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
18390 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
18391 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
18392 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
18393 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
18394 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
18395 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
18396 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
18397 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
18398 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
18401 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
18403 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
18404 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
18405 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
18406 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
18407 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
18410 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
18411 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
18412 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18413 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
18414 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
18416 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
18417 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
18418 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
18419 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
18420 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
18421 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
18422 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
18424 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
18425 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18426 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
18427 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
18428 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
18429 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18430 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
18431 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18433 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18434 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
18435 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
18436 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
18437 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
18438 present the same extensions.)
18441 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
18442 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
18443 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
18444 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
18445 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
18447 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
18448 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
18449 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
18450 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
18452 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
18453 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
18454 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
18455 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18457 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
18458 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
18459 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
18460 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
18461 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
18462 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
18463 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
18464 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
18465 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18467 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
18468 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
18469 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
18470 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
18471 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18474 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
18475 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
18476 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
18478 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18479 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
18481 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
18482 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
18486 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
18487 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
18488 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
18489 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
18492 o Major bugfixes (security):
18493 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
18494 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
18495 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
18497 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
18498 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
18499 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
18500 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18503 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
18504 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
18505 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
18506 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
18507 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
18508 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
18509 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
18510 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18513 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
18514 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
18515 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
18516 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18519 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
18520 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
18521 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
18522 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
18523 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
18524 scheduling algorithms.
18526 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
18527 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
18528 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
18530 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
18531 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
18532 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
18533 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
18534 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
18535 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
18536 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
18537 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
18538 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
18539 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
18540 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
18542 o Internal abstraction features:
18543 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
18544 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
18545 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
18546 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
18547 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
18548 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
18549 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
18550 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
18551 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
18552 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
18553 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
18554 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
18555 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
18556 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
18557 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
18558 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
18559 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
18561 o Required libraries:
18562 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
18563 strongly recommended.
18566 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
18567 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
18568 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
18569 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
18570 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
18571 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
18572 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
18573 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
18574 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
18576 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
18577 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
18578 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
18579 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
18580 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
18581 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
18582 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
18583 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18584 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
18585 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
18586 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
18587 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
18588 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
18589 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
18590 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
18593 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
18594 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
18595 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
18596 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
18597 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
18598 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
18599 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
18600 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
18601 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
18602 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
18603 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
18604 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
18605 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
18606 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
18607 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18608 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
18609 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
18610 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
18611 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
18613 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
18614 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
18615 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
18616 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
18617 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
18618 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
18619 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
18622 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
18623 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
18624 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
18625 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
18627 o New directory authorities:
18628 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
18629 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
18631 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
18632 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
18633 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
18634 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
18635 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
18636 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
18637 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
18638 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
18639 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
18640 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
18641 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
18644 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
18645 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
18646 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
18648 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
18649 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
18650 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
18651 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18652 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
18653 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
18654 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18655 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
18656 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
18658 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
18659 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
18660 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
18661 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
18662 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
18663 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
18664 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
18665 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
18666 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
18667 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
18668 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
18669 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
18670 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
18671 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
18672 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
18673 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
18674 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
18675 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
18677 o Documentation fixes:
18678 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
18681 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
18682 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
18683 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
18684 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
18687 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
18688 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
18689 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18692 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
18693 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
18694 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
18695 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
18696 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
18697 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
18698 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
18699 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
18701 o Security features:
18702 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
18703 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
18704 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
18705 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
18706 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
18707 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
18708 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
18709 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
18710 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
18714 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
18715 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
18716 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
18719 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
18720 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
18721 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
18722 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
18723 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18724 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
18725 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
18726 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
18727 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
18728 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
18729 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18730 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
18731 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
18732 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
18734 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
18735 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18736 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
18737 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
18738 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18740 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
18741 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
18742 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
18743 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18744 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
18745 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
18746 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18747 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
18748 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
18749 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
18750 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
18751 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
18752 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
18753 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18754 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
18755 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
18756 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
18757 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
18758 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
18759 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
18761 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18762 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
18763 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
18764 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
18765 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
18766 testable, and a little less fragile too.
18767 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
18768 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
18770 o Documentation fixes:
18771 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
18772 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
18776 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
18777 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
18781 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
18782 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
18783 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18786 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
18787 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
18791 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
18792 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
18796 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
18797 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
18798 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
18799 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
18800 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
18801 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
18802 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
18806 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
18807 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
18808 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
18809 log messages less noisy.
18812 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
18813 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
18817 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
18818 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
18819 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
18820 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
18821 last time we raised it).
18824 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
18825 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
18827 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
18828 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
18829 part of ticket 6736.
18830 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
18831 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
18832 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
18836 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
18837 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
18838 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
18839 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
18840 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
18842 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
18843 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18844 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
18845 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
18846 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18847 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
18848 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
18849 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18850 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
18851 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18852 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
18853 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18855 o Removed features:
18856 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
18857 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
18858 bunch of compatibility code.
18860 o Code refactoring:
18861 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
18862 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
18863 the ORPort and the DirPort.
18866 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
18867 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
18868 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
18869 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
18871 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
18872 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
18873 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
18875 o Major features (bridges):
18876 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
18877 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
18878 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
18881 o Major features (IPv6):
18882 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
18883 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
18884 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
18885 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
18886 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
18887 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
18888 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
18889 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
18890 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
18892 o Major features (build):
18893 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
18894 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
18895 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
18896 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
18897 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
18898 fixes by Jim Meyering.
18899 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
18900 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
18901 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
18903 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
18904 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
18905 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
18906 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
18907 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
18908 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
18909 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
18910 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
18911 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
18912 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
18913 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
18915 o Minor features (streamlining);
18916 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
18917 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
18919 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
18920 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
18921 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
18922 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
18923 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
18924 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18926 o Minor features (controller):
18927 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
18929 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
18930 Implements ticket 4971.
18932 o Minor features (IPv6):
18933 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
18934 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
18935 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
18936 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
18937 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
18939 o Minor features (log messages):
18940 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
18941 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
18942 Resolves ticket 6758.
18943 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
18944 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
18945 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
18946 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18947 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
18948 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
18949 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
18951 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
18952 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
18953 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
18954 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
18955 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
18958 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
18959 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
18960 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
18961 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
18962 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
18964 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
18965 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
18966 Implements ticket 5529.
18967 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
18968 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
18969 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
18970 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
18971 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
18972 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
18973 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
18974 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
18975 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
18976 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
18978 o New requirements:
18979 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
18980 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
18981 from a source distribution.)
18984 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
18985 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
18986 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
18987 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
18988 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
18989 and cleans up other smaller issues.
18991 o Major bugfixes (security):
18992 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
18993 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
18994 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
18995 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
18996 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
18997 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
18998 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
18999 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
19000 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
19001 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
19002 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
19003 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19004 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
19005 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
19006 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
19007 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
19011 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
19012 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
19013 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
19014 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19015 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
19016 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
19017 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
19018 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
19019 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
19020 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19023 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
19024 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
19025 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
19026 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
19027 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19028 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
19029 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
19030 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
19031 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
19032 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
19033 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
19035 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
19036 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
19037 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
19039 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
19040 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
19041 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
19042 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
19043 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19044 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
19045 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
19046 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
19047 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19048 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
19049 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19050 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
19051 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
19052 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
19055 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19056 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
19057 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
19058 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
19059 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19060 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
19061 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
19062 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
19063 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
19064 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
19065 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
19066 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
19067 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
19068 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
19069 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
19072 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
19073 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
19074 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
19075 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
19076 Resolves ticket 6732.
19079 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
19080 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
19081 attack that could in theory leak path information.
19084 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
19085 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
19086 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19087 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
19088 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
19089 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
19090 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
19091 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
19092 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
19093 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
19094 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
19095 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
19096 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
19097 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
19100 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
19101 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
19102 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
19103 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
19106 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
19107 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
19108 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19109 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
19110 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
19111 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19112 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
19113 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
19114 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
19115 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
19116 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
19117 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
19118 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
19119 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
19120 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
19121 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
19122 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
19125 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
19126 a little more useful.
19127 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
19128 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19129 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
19130 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
19131 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
19132 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
19133 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
19136 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
19137 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19138 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
19139 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19140 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
19141 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
19145 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
19146 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
19147 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
19148 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
19149 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
19152 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
19153 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
19154 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
19157 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
19159 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
19161 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19162 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
19163 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
19164 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
19165 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
19168 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
19169 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
19170 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
19171 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
19172 since the beginning of Tor.
19175 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
19176 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
19177 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
19178 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
19179 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
19180 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
19181 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
19182 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19183 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
19184 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
19187 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
19188 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
19191 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
19192 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
19193 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
19194 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
19197 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
19198 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19199 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
19200 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
19201 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
19202 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19204 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19205 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
19206 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
19207 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
19208 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
19209 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
19210 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19211 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
19212 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
19213 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
19214 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
19215 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
19216 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
19217 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
19218 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
19219 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
19220 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19221 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
19222 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
19224 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
19225 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
19226 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
19228 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
19229 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19230 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
19231 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
19233 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
19234 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19235 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
19236 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19237 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
19238 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
19239 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19240 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
19241 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
19242 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
19243 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19244 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
19245 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
19246 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
19247 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
19248 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
19251 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
19252 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
19253 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
19254 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
19255 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
19258 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
19259 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
19260 options. Closes bug 4748.
19263 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
19264 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
19265 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
19266 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
19267 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
19271 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
19272 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
19274 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
19275 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
19276 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
19277 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
19278 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
19279 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
19280 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
19281 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
19282 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
19285 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
19286 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
19287 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
19288 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
19289 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
19290 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
19291 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
19292 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19295 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
19296 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
19297 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
19298 case for flushing marked connections.
19299 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
19300 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
19301 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
19302 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
19303 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
19304 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
19305 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19306 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
19307 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19308 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
19309 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
19310 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
19311 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19312 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
19313 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
19314 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
19315 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19316 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
19317 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
19318 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
19319 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
19320 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
19321 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19322 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
19323 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
19325 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
19326 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19327 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
19331 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
19332 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
19333 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
19334 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
19335 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
19336 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
19337 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
19338 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
19339 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
19340 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
19341 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
19342 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
19343 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
19344 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
19345 Addresses ticket 5458.
19346 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19348 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
19349 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
19350 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
19353 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
19354 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
19355 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
19359 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
19360 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
19361 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
19362 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
19363 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
19364 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
19365 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19366 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
19367 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
19368 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
19369 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19372 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
19373 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
19376 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
19377 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
19380 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
19381 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
19382 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
19383 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
19384 that get us closer to a release candidate.
19386 o Major bugfixes (general):
19387 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
19388 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
19389 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
19390 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
19391 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
19392 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
19393 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19394 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
19395 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
19397 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
19398 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
19399 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
19400 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
19403 o Major bugfixes (clients):
19404 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
19405 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
19406 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
19407 which introduced predicted ports.
19408 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
19409 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
19410 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
19411 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19412 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
19413 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
19414 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
19415 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
19416 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
19417 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
19418 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19419 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
19420 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
19422 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
19423 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
19424 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
19425 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
19426 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
19427 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
19428 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
19429 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
19430 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
19431 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
19432 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
19436 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
19437 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
19438 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
19439 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
19440 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
19441 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
19442 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
19443 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
19444 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
19445 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
19446 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
19447 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
19448 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
19449 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
19451 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
19452 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
19453 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
19454 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
19455 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
19456 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
19457 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
19458 sure. Closes bug 5139.
19459 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
19460 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
19461 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
19462 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
19463 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
19464 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
19465 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19467 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
19468 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
19469 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
19470 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
19471 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
19472 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
19473 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
19474 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
19475 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
19476 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
19477 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
19478 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
19479 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
19480 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
19481 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
19482 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
19483 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
19484 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19485 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
19486 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
19488 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19489 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
19490 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
19491 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
19492 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
19493 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
19494 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
19495 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
19496 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
19497 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
19498 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
19499 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
19500 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
19502 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
19503 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19504 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
19505 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
19507 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
19508 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
19509 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19510 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
19511 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
19512 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19513 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
19514 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
19515 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
19516 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
19518 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
19519 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
19520 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
19522 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19523 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
19524 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
19525 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
19526 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
19527 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
19528 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
19529 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
19530 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
19531 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
19532 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
19533 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19534 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
19535 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
19536 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
19537 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19538 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
19539 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
19540 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
19541 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
19543 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
19544 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
19545 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19546 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
19547 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
19548 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
19550 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
19551 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
19552 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
19554 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
19555 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
19556 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
19557 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19558 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
19559 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
19561 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
19562 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
19563 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
19565 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
19566 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
19567 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19568 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
19569 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
19570 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19571 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
19572 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
19573 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
19574 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19575 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
19576 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
19577 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
19578 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
19579 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
19580 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
19582 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
19583 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
19584 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19585 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
19586 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
19587 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19588 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
19589 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19590 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
19591 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
19592 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
19593 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
19594 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
19597 o Documentation fixes:
19598 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
19599 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
19600 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
19601 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
19602 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
19603 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
19606 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
19607 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
19611 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
19612 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
19613 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
19614 and fixes several crash bugs.
19616 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
19617 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
19618 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
19619 those packages and upgrade anyway.
19621 o Directory authority changes:
19622 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
19623 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
19627 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
19628 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
19629 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
19630 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
19631 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
19632 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
19633 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
19634 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
19635 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
19636 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
19637 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
19638 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
19639 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
19640 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
19641 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
19642 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
19643 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
19644 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
19645 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
19646 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
19647 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
19648 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
19649 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
19650 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
19651 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
19652 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
19653 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
19656 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
19657 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19658 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
19659 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
19661 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
19662 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
19664 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
19665 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
19666 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
19667 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
19668 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
19669 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
19670 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
19671 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
19674 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
19675 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
19676 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
19677 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
19678 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
19679 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
19680 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
19681 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
19682 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
19683 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
19684 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
19685 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
19686 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
19687 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
19688 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
19689 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
19690 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
19691 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
19692 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
19693 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
19694 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
19695 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
19696 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
19697 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
19698 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
19699 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
19700 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
19701 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
19702 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
19703 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
19704 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
19705 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
19706 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19707 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
19708 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19709 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
19710 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
19711 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
19712 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
19713 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19714 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
19715 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19716 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
19717 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
19718 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
19719 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19721 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
19722 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
19723 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
19724 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
19725 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
19726 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
19727 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
19728 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
19729 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
19730 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
19731 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19732 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
19733 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19734 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
19735 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
19738 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
19739 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
19740 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
19741 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
19743 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19746 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
19747 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
19748 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
19749 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
19750 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
19751 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
19752 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
19755 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
19756 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
19757 the development branch build on Windows again.
19759 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19760 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
19761 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
19762 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
19763 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
19764 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
19765 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
19766 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
19767 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
19768 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
19769 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
19770 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
19771 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19772 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
19773 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
19775 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
19776 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
19777 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
19778 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19779 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
19780 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
19781 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
19782 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
19783 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
19784 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
19785 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
19786 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
19789 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
19790 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
19791 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
19792 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
19793 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
19794 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
19795 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
19796 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
19797 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
19799 o Removed features:
19800 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
19801 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
19802 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
19803 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
19807 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
19808 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
19809 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
19810 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
19812 o Directory authority changes:
19813 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
19817 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
19818 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19819 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
19820 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
19822 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
19823 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
19824 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
19825 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
19826 documents entirely.
19827 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
19828 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
19829 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19831 o Major features (performance):
19832 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
19833 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
19834 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
19835 much faster than other AES implementations.
19837 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
19838 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
19839 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
19840 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
19841 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
19842 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
19843 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
19844 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
19845 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
19846 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
19847 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
19848 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
19849 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
19850 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
19851 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19852 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
19853 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
19854 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19856 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
19857 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
19858 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
19859 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19860 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
19861 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19862 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
19863 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
19864 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
19866 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
19867 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
19868 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
19869 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
19870 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
19871 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
19874 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
19875 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
19876 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
19877 please let us know about it.
19878 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
19879 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
19880 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
19881 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
19882 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19883 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19884 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
19885 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
19887 o Default torrc changes:
19888 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
19889 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
19891 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
19892 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
19893 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
19896 o Removed features:
19897 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
19898 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
19899 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
19900 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
19902 o Code refactoring:
19903 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
19904 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
19905 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
19906 it would be a bad idea to start.
19909 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
19910 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
19911 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
19912 that get us closer to a release candidate.
19914 o Directory authority changes:
19915 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
19918 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
19919 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
19920 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
19921 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
19922 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
19923 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
19924 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
19925 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
19926 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
19927 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
19928 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
19929 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
19930 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
19931 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
19932 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
19933 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
19935 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
19936 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
19937 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
19938 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
19939 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
19940 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19941 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
19942 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
19943 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19944 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
19945 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
19946 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
19948 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
19949 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
19950 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19951 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
19952 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
19954 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
19955 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
19956 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
19957 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
19958 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
19959 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
19960 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
19961 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
19962 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
19963 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
19964 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
19965 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
19966 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19967 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
19968 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
19969 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
19970 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
19971 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
19972 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
19973 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
19974 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
19975 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
19978 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
19979 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
19980 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19981 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
19982 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
19983 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
19984 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
19985 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
19986 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19987 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
19988 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
19989 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
19990 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
19991 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
19992 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
19993 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
19994 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
19997 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
19998 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
19999 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20002 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
20003 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
20004 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
20005 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
20008 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
20009 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
20011 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
20012 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
20013 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
20014 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20015 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
20016 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
20017 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
20018 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20019 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
20020 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
20021 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
20022 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20025 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
20026 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
20027 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
20028 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
20029 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
20030 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
20031 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20034 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
20035 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
20036 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
20037 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20038 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
20039 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
20040 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
20041 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
20042 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
20043 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
20045 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
20046 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
20047 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
20048 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
20049 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20050 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
20051 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
20052 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
20053 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
20056 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20057 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
20058 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
20062 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
20063 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
20064 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
20065 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
20066 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
20067 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
20070 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
20071 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
20072 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
20073 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
20074 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
20075 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
20076 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
20077 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
20079 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
20080 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
20081 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
20082 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
20083 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
20084 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
20085 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
20086 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
20088 o Major security workaround:
20089 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
20090 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
20091 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
20092 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
20093 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
20094 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
20095 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
20096 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
20097 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
20098 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
20099 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
20102 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
20103 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
20104 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
20105 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
20106 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
20107 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
20108 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
20109 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20110 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
20111 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
20112 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
20113 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
20114 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
20116 o Minor features (controller):
20117 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
20118 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
20119 file. Resolves bug 1101.
20120 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
20121 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
20122 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
20123 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
20124 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
20125 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
20127 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
20128 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
20129 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
20130 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
20131 part of ticket 3457.
20132 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
20133 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
20134 circuit-status' control-port command.
20136 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20137 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
20138 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
20139 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
20140 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
20142 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
20143 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
20144 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
20145 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
20146 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
20147 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
20148 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
20150 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
20151 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
20153 o Minor features (other):
20154 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
20155 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
20156 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
20157 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
20158 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
20159 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
20160 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
20161 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
20163 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
20164 them from the other auths.
20165 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
20166 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
20167 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
20168 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
20169 the 0.2.3.x series.
20170 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20172 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
20173 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
20174 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
20175 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
20176 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
20177 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
20178 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
20179 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
20180 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
20181 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
20182 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20183 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
20184 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
20185 be disabled using the new
20186 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
20187 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
20188 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
20189 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
20190 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
20191 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
20192 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
20193 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
20194 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
20195 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
20196 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
20197 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
20199 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
20200 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
20201 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
20204 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
20205 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
20206 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
20208 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
20209 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
20210 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
20211 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
20212 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20213 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
20214 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20216 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
20217 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
20218 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
20219 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
20220 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
20221 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
20222 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
20223 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
20225 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
20226 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
20227 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20228 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
20229 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
20230 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
20231 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
20232 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
20233 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
20236 o Minor bugfixes (other):
20237 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
20238 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
20239 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
20240 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
20241 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
20242 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
20243 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
20244 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
20245 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
20246 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
20247 accidentally been reverted.
20248 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
20249 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
20250 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
20251 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
20252 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
20253 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
20254 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20255 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
20256 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
20257 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20258 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
20259 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
20260 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
20261 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
20262 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20263 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
20264 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20265 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
20266 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20269 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
20270 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
20271 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
20272 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
20273 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
20274 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
20275 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
20277 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20278 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
20279 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
20280 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
20281 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
20282 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
20283 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
20285 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
20286 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
20287 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
20288 invalid value, rather than just -1.
20289 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
20290 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
20291 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
20292 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
20293 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
20294 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
20295 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
20299 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
20300 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
20301 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
20303 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
20304 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
20305 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
20306 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
20307 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
20308 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
20309 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
20310 (which Tor does not do by default).
20312 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
20313 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
20314 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
20315 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
20316 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
20318 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
20322 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
20323 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
20324 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
20325 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
20328 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
20329 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
20330 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
20331 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
20332 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
20333 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
20334 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
20335 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
20336 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
20337 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
20338 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20341 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20344 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
20345 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
20346 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
20348 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
20349 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
20350 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
20351 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
20352 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
20353 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
20354 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
20355 (which Tor does not do by default).
20357 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
20358 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
20359 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
20360 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
20361 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
20363 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
20364 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
20365 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
20368 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
20369 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
20370 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
20371 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
20372 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
20374 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
20375 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
20378 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
20379 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
20380 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
20381 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
20382 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
20383 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
20384 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
20385 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
20387 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
20388 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
20389 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
20390 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
20391 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
20392 close based on processing a cell on it.
20393 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
20394 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
20395 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
20396 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20397 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
20398 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
20399 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20400 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
20401 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
20402 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
20403 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
20404 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
20405 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
20406 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
20407 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
20410 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
20411 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
20412 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
20413 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
20414 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
20415 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
20416 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
20418 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
20419 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
20420 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
20421 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
20422 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
20423 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20424 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
20425 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
20426 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20427 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
20428 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
20429 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
20430 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
20431 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20432 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
20433 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
20434 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
20435 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
20436 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20437 Reported by "troll_un".
20438 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
20439 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20440 Reported by "troll_un".
20441 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
20442 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
20443 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
20444 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
20447 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
20448 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
20449 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
20450 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
20451 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
20452 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
20453 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
20454 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
20455 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
20456 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
20457 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20459 o Packaging changes:
20460 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
20461 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
20464 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
20465 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
20466 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
20467 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
20468 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
20470 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
20471 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
20473 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
20474 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
20475 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
20476 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
20477 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20478 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
20479 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
20480 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
20481 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
20484 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20487 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
20488 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
20489 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
20490 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
20491 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
20492 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
20493 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
20496 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
20497 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
20498 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
20499 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
20500 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
20501 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
20502 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
20503 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
20504 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
20505 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
20506 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
20507 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
20508 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
20509 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
20510 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
20511 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
20512 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
20513 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
20514 Resolves ticket 4526.
20515 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
20516 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
20517 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
20518 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
20519 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
20520 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
20521 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
20522 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
20523 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
20524 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
20525 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
20526 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
20527 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
20528 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
20529 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
20530 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
20533 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
20534 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
20535 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
20536 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
20537 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
20538 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
20539 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
20540 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
20541 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
20542 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
20544 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
20545 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
20546 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
20547 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
20548 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
20549 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
20550 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
20551 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
20552 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
20554 o Minor features (new/different config options):
20555 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
20556 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
20557 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
20558 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
20559 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
20560 Implements issue 933.
20561 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
20562 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
20563 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
20564 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
20565 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
20566 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
20567 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
20568 appending to the list.
20569 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
20570 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
20571 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
20572 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
20574 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
20575 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
20576 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
20577 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
20578 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
20579 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
20580 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
20581 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
20584 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
20585 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
20586 Resolves ticket 2474.
20587 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
20588 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
20589 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
20590 Required by fix for bug 3460.
20591 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
20592 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
20593 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
20594 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
20595 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
20596 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
20597 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
20598 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
20599 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
20601 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
20602 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
20603 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
20605 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
20607 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
20608 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
20610 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
20611 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
20612 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
20613 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
20614 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
20615 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
20616 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
20618 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
20619 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
20620 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20621 Reported by "troll_un".
20622 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
20623 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20624 Reported by "troll_un".
20625 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
20626 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
20627 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
20628 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
20630 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
20631 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
20633 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
20634 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
20635 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
20636 with help from wanoskarnet.
20637 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
20638 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20641 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
20642 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
20643 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
20644 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20646 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
20647 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
20648 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
20649 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
20650 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
20651 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
20652 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
20653 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
20656 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
20657 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
20658 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
20659 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
20660 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
20661 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
20662 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
20663 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
20664 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
20667 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
20668 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
20669 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
20670 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
20672 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
20673 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
20674 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
20675 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20676 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
20677 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
20678 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
20679 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
20680 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
20681 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
20682 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
20683 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
20684 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
20685 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
20686 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
20687 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
20688 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
20689 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
20690 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
20691 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
20692 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
20693 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
20694 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
20695 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
20698 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
20699 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
20700 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
20701 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
20702 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
20703 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20704 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
20705 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
20708 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
20709 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
20710 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
20711 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
20712 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
20713 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
20714 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
20715 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
20716 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
20717 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
20718 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
20719 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
20720 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
20721 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
20722 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
20724 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
20725 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
20726 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
20727 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
20728 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20729 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
20730 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
20731 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20732 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
20733 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
20734 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
20735 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
20736 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
20737 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20738 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
20739 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
20740 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20742 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
20743 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
20744 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
20745 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
20746 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20747 Found by frosty_un.
20748 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
20749 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
20750 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
20752 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
20753 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
20754 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
20756 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
20757 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
20759 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
20760 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20763 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
20764 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
20765 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
20766 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
20767 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
20768 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
20769 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
20770 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
20771 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
20772 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
20773 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
20774 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
20775 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
20776 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
20778 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
20779 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
20780 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20782 o Packaging changes:
20783 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
20784 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
20786 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20787 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
20788 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
20789 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
20790 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
20791 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
20792 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
20793 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
20794 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
20797 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
20799 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
20800 ./src/test/bench binary.
20801 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
20802 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
20805 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
20806 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
20807 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
20811 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
20812 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
20813 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
20814 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
20815 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
20816 close based on processing a cell on it.
20817 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
20818 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
20819 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20820 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
20821 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
20822 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
20823 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
20824 cells were introduced.
20827 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
20828 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
20831 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
20832 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
20833 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
20834 users. Everybody should upgrade.
20836 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
20837 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
20840 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
20841 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
20842 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
20843 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
20844 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
20845 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
20847 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
20848 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
20849 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
20850 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
20851 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
20852 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
20853 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
20854 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
20855 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
20856 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
20857 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
20858 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
20859 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
20860 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
20861 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
20862 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
20863 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
20864 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
20867 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20868 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
20869 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
20870 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
20871 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
20872 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
20873 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
20874 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
20875 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
20876 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
20877 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
20878 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
20879 Partly fixes bug 3825.
20880 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
20881 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
20882 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
20883 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
20884 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
20885 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
20886 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
20888 o Major bugfixes (other):
20889 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
20890 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
20891 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
20892 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20893 Found by "frosty_un".
20894 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
20895 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
20896 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
20897 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
20898 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
20899 immensely in tracking this bug down.
20900 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
20901 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
20904 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
20905 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
20906 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
20907 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
20908 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
20909 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
20910 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
20911 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
20912 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
20913 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
20914 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
20915 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
20916 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
20917 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20918 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
20919 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
20920 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
20921 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
20922 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
20923 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
20924 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
20926 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
20927 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
20928 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
20929 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20930 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
20931 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
20932 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
20933 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
20934 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
20935 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
20936 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
20939 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
20940 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
20941 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
20942 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
20943 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
20944 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
20945 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
20946 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
20947 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
20948 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
20949 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
20950 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
20951 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
20952 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20954 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
20955 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
20956 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
20957 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
20958 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
20959 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
20960 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
20961 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
20964 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
20965 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
20966 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
20968 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
20969 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
20970 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
20971 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
20972 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
20973 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
20974 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
20975 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
20976 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
20977 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
20978 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
20979 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
20980 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
20982 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
20983 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
20984 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
20985 currently connected to them.
20987 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
20988 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
20989 remain; see for example proposal 188.
20991 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
20992 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
20993 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
20994 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
20995 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
20996 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
20997 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
20998 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
20999 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
21000 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
21001 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
21002 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
21003 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
21004 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
21005 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
21006 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
21007 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
21008 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
21011 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
21012 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
21013 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
21014 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
21015 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
21016 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
21017 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
21018 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
21019 when bridges were introduced.
21020 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
21021 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
21022 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
21023 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21024 Found by "frosty_un".
21027 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
21028 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
21030 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
21031 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
21032 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
21033 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
21034 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
21035 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
21036 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
21039 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
21040 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
21041 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
21042 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
21043 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
21044 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
21045 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
21046 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
21047 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
21048 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
21049 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
21050 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
21051 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
21052 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
21053 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
21054 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
21055 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
21056 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
21058 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
21059 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
21060 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
21061 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21062 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
21063 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
21064 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
21065 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
21066 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
21067 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
21068 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
21069 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21072 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
21073 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
21074 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
21075 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21078 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
21079 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
21080 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
21081 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
21082 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
21084 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
21085 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
21086 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
21087 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
21088 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
21089 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
21090 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
21091 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
21092 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
21093 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21095 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
21096 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
21097 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
21098 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
21099 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
21100 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
21101 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
21102 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
21103 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
21104 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
21105 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
21106 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
21107 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
21108 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
21109 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21110 Found by "frosty_un".
21111 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
21112 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
21113 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
21114 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
21115 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
21116 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
21117 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
21118 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
21119 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
21120 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
21121 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
21122 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
21123 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21124 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
21125 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
21126 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
21127 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
21128 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
21129 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
21131 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
21132 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
21133 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
21134 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
21135 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
21136 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
21137 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
21138 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
21140 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
21141 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
21142 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
21143 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
21144 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
21145 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
21146 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
21147 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
21148 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
21149 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
21150 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
21151 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
21153 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
21154 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21155 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
21156 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21157 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
21158 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21159 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
21160 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
21161 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
21163 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
21165 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
21166 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
21167 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
21168 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21169 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
21170 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
21171 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
21172 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21174 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
21175 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
21176 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
21177 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
21178 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
21180 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
21181 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
21182 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
21183 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
21184 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21187 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
21188 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
21189 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
21190 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
21191 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
21194 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
21195 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
21196 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
21197 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
21198 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
21199 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
21200 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
21201 when bridges were introduced.
21204 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
21205 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
21206 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21208 o Major features (networking):
21209 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
21210 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
21211 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
21212 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
21213 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
21217 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
21218 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
21219 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
21221 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
21222 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
21223 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
21224 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
21225 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21227 o Minor features (diagnostics):
21228 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
21229 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
21232 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
21233 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
21234 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
21235 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
21236 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
21237 listed in the network consensus and republish.
21239 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
21240 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
21241 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
21242 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21244 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
21245 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
21246 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
21247 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
21248 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
21249 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
21250 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
21251 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
21252 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
21253 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
21254 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
21256 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
21257 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
21258 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
21259 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
21260 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
21261 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
21262 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
21263 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
21264 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
21265 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21267 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
21268 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
21269 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
21270 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
21271 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
21272 fixes part of bug 2442.
21273 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
21274 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
21275 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
21277 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
21278 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
21279 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
21280 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
21281 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21283 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
21284 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
21285 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
21286 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
21287 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
21290 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
21291 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
21292 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
21296 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
21297 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
21298 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
21299 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
21300 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
21301 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
21302 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
21305 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
21306 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
21307 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
21308 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
21309 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
21310 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
21311 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
21314 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
21315 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
21316 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
21317 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
21318 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
21319 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21320 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
21321 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
21322 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21324 o Code refactoring:
21325 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
21326 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
21329 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
21330 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
21331 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
21332 reachable from Iran again.
21335 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
21336 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
21337 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21339 o Minor features (security):
21340 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
21341 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
21342 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
21343 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
21344 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
21345 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
21346 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
21347 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
21348 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
21349 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
21352 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
21353 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
21354 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
21355 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
21356 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
21357 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
21358 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
21359 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
21360 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21362 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
21363 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
21364 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
21365 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
21366 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
21367 raised by bug 3898.
21368 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
21369 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
21370 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
21371 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
21372 fixes part of bug 2442.
21373 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
21374 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
21375 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
21377 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
21378 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
21379 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
21380 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
21381 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21384 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
21385 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21386 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
21387 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
21388 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
21389 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
21392 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
21393 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
21394 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
21395 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
21396 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
21397 bufferevent-based networking backend.
21399 o Major features (stream isolation):
21400 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
21401 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
21402 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
21403 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
21404 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
21405 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
21406 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
21407 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
21408 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
21409 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
21410 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
21411 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
21412 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
21413 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
21415 o Major features (other):
21416 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
21417 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
21418 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
21419 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
21420 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
21421 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
21422 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
21423 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
21424 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
21425 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
21426 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
21427 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
21428 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
21430 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
21431 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
21433 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
21434 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
21435 Fixes part of bug 3752.
21436 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
21437 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
21438 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
21439 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
21440 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
21441 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
21442 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
21443 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
21444 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
21445 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
21446 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
21447 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
21448 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
21449 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
21450 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
21451 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
21452 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
21454 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
21455 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
21456 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
21457 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
21458 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
21459 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
21462 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
21463 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
21464 user. Implements ticket 1692.
21465 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
21466 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
21467 best copy data out of a buffer.
21468 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
21469 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
21470 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
21472 o Minor features (build compatibility):
21473 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
21474 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
21475 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21477 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
21478 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21480 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
21481 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
21482 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
21483 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
21484 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
21485 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
21486 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21488 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
21489 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
21490 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
21491 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
21492 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
21493 raised by bug 3898.
21494 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
21495 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
21496 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
21499 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
21500 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
21501 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
21502 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
21503 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
21504 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
21505 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
21506 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
21507 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
21508 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
21509 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
21510 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21511 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
21512 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
21513 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
21514 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
21515 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
21516 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
21517 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
21520 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21521 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
21522 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
21526 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
21527 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
21528 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
21529 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
21530 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
21531 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
21534 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
21535 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
21536 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
21537 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
21538 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
21539 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
21540 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
21541 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
21542 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
21543 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
21545 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
21546 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
21547 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
21548 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
21549 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
21550 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
21551 many many other features and bugfixes.
21554 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
21555 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
21556 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
21559 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
21560 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
21561 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
21562 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
21563 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
21564 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
21565 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
21566 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
21569 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21572 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
21573 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
21574 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21575 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
21576 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
21577 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
21578 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
21579 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
21580 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
21581 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
21582 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
21583 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
21584 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
21585 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21586 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
21587 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
21588 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
21589 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
21593 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
21594 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
21595 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
21596 up a variety of recently introduced features.
21599 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
21600 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
21601 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
21602 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
21603 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
21604 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
21605 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
21606 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
21607 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
21608 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
21609 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
21610 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
21611 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
21612 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
21613 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
21614 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
21616 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
21617 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
21618 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
21619 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
21620 order. Fixes bug 2798.
21621 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
21622 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
21623 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
21624 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
21625 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
21626 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
21630 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
21631 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
21632 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
21633 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
21635 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
21636 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
21637 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
21638 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
21639 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
21640 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
21641 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
21642 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
21643 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
21644 Implements ticket 3264.
21645 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
21646 implements ticket 3439.
21648 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
21649 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
21650 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
21651 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
21652 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
21653 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
21654 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
21655 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
21656 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
21657 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
21658 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
21659 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
21660 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
21661 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
21662 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
21663 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
21664 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
21665 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
21666 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
21667 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
21668 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
21669 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
21670 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
21671 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
21672 fails. Spotted by coverity.
21673 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
21674 present. Found by coverity.
21675 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
21676 a directory cache that provides them.
21678 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
21679 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
21680 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
21681 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
21682 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
21683 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
21685 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
21686 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
21687 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21688 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
21689 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
21690 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21691 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
21692 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
21694 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21695 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
21696 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
21697 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
21698 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
21699 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
21700 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
21702 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
21706 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
21707 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
21708 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
21711 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
21712 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
21713 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
21714 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
21717 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
21718 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
21719 discovered by katmagic.
21720 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
21721 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
21722 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
21723 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21724 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
21725 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
21726 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
21727 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21728 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
21729 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
21730 fixes part of bug 3465.
21731 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
21732 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
21736 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21739 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
21740 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
21741 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
21742 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
21743 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
21746 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
21747 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
21748 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
21749 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
21750 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
21753 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
21754 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
21755 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
21756 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
21757 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
21758 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
21761 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
21762 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
21763 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
21764 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21765 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
21766 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
21767 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
21768 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
21769 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
21770 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
21771 fixes part of bug 3407.
21772 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
21773 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
21774 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
21775 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
21776 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
21777 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
21778 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
21779 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
21780 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
21781 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
21783 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
21784 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
21785 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
21786 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
21789 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21791 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
21792 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
21793 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
21795 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
21797 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
21800 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
21801 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
21802 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
21803 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
21804 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
21805 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
21809 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
21810 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
21811 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
21812 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21813 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
21814 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
21815 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
21817 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
21818 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21819 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
21820 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
21821 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
21822 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
21823 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
21824 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
21825 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
21826 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
21827 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
21828 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
21829 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
21830 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
21831 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
21832 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
21833 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
21834 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
21835 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
21839 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
21840 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
21841 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
21842 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
21843 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
21844 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
21845 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
21846 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
21847 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
21851 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
21852 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
21853 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
21855 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
21857 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
21858 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
21859 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
21860 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
21861 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21862 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
21863 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
21864 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
21865 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
21867 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
21868 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
21869 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
21870 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
21871 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
21872 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
21874 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
21875 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
21877 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
21878 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
21879 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
21882 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
21883 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
21884 Resolves ticket 3252.
21885 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
21886 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
21887 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
21888 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
21889 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
21890 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
21893 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
21894 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
21897 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
21898 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
21899 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
21902 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
21903 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21904 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
21905 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
21906 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
21909 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
21910 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21911 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
21912 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
21913 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
21914 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
21915 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
21916 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
21917 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
21921 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
21922 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
21923 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
21924 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
21925 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
21927 o Security/privacy fixes:
21928 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
21929 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
21930 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
21931 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
21932 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
21933 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
21934 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
21935 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
21936 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
21937 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
21938 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
21939 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
21940 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
21941 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
21942 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21945 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
21946 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
21947 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
21948 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
21949 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
21950 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
21951 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
21952 part of ticket 3076.
21953 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
21954 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
21955 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
21959 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
21960 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
21961 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
21962 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
21963 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
21964 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
21965 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
21966 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
21968 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
21969 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
21970 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
21971 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
21972 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
21973 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
21974 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
21975 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
21976 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
21977 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
21978 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
21979 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
21980 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21983 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
21984 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
21985 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
21986 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
21987 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
21988 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
21989 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
21991 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
21992 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
21993 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
21994 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
21995 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
21996 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
21997 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
21998 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
21999 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
22000 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
22001 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
22002 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
22003 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
22004 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
22005 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
22006 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
22008 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
22009 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
22011 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
22012 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
22014 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
22015 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
22017 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
22018 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
22019 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22021 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
22022 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
22023 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
22024 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
22025 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22026 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
22027 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
22028 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
22029 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
22030 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
22031 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
22033 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
22034 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
22035 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
22036 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
22037 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
22038 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
22039 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
22040 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
22041 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
22042 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
22043 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22044 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
22045 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
22048 o Removed features:
22049 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
22050 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
22051 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
22055 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
22056 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
22057 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
22058 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
22059 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
22060 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
22062 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
22063 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
22064 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
22067 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
22068 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
22069 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
22070 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
22071 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
22072 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
22073 zero-copy transports where available.
22074 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
22075 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
22076 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
22077 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
22078 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
22079 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
22080 debug it as it breaks.
22081 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
22082 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
22083 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
22084 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
22085 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
22086 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
22087 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
22088 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
22089 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
22090 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
22091 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
22092 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
22093 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
22094 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
22095 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
22096 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
22097 PortForwarding option.
22098 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
22099 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
22100 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
22101 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
22102 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
22103 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
22104 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
22107 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
22108 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
22109 Implements enhancement 1668.
22110 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
22112 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
22113 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
22114 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
22115 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
22116 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
22117 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
22118 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
22120 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
22121 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
22122 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
22123 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
22124 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
22125 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
22126 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
22128 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
22129 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
22130 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
22131 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
22132 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
22133 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
22134 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
22136 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
22137 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
22138 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
22139 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
22140 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22141 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
22142 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
22143 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
22144 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
22145 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
22146 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
22147 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
22148 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
22149 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
22150 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
22153 o Minor features (controller):
22154 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
22155 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
22156 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
22157 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
22158 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
22159 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
22160 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
22163 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
22164 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
22165 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
22166 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
22167 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
22168 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
22169 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
22170 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
22172 o Minor packaging issues:
22173 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
22174 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
22176 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22177 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
22178 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
22179 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
22180 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
22181 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
22182 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
22183 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
22184 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
22185 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
22186 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
22187 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
22188 our library structure used to force them to link it.
22190 o Removed features:
22191 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
22192 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
22193 are no longer in use as servers.
22195 o Documentation fixes:
22196 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
22197 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
22198 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
22202 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
22203 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
22204 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
22205 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
22206 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
22207 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
22208 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
22209 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
22210 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
22211 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
22214 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
22215 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
22216 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
22217 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
22218 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
22219 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
22220 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
22221 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
22222 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
22223 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22224 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
22225 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
22226 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22227 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
22228 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
22229 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
22231 o Security and stability fixes:
22232 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
22233 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
22234 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
22235 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
22236 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
22237 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
22238 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
22239 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
22240 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
22241 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
22242 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
22243 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
22244 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22245 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
22246 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
22247 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22250 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
22251 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
22252 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
22253 contributions to the network.
22255 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
22256 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
22257 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
22258 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
22259 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
22260 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
22261 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
22262 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
22263 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
22264 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
22265 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
22266 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
22267 connections to directory servers.
22268 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
22269 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
22270 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
22271 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
22272 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
22273 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
22274 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
22275 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
22276 information, or fetch directory information.
22277 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
22278 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
22279 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
22280 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
22281 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
22282 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
22283 unless you really want your Tor to break.
22284 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
22285 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
22286 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
22287 - When StrictNodes is 1:
22288 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
22289 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
22290 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
22291 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
22292 reachability self-tests.
22293 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
22294 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
22295 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
22296 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
22297 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22298 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
22299 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
22301 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
22302 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22303 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
22304 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
22305 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
22306 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22307 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
22308 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
22309 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
22310 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
22311 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
22314 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
22315 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
22316 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
22317 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
22318 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
22319 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
22320 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
22321 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
22322 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
22323 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
22324 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
22325 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22326 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
22327 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
22328 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
22329 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
22330 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
22332 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
22333 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
22334 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
22335 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
22336 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22337 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
22338 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22339 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
22340 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
22341 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
22342 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
22343 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
22344 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
22345 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
22346 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
22347 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22348 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
22349 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
22350 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
22351 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
22354 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
22355 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
22356 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
22357 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
22358 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
22359 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
22360 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
22361 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
22362 Required by fix for bug 3000.
22363 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
22364 by fix for bug 3000.
22365 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
22366 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
22368 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22369 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
22370 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
22371 send a body too). Since only server versions before
22372 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
22373 keep the workaround in place.
22374 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
22375 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
22376 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
22377 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
22378 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
22379 want to do it differently.
22380 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
22381 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
22382 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
22383 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
22384 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
22388 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
22389 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
22390 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
22391 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
22392 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
22395 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
22396 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
22397 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
22398 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
22399 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
22401 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
22402 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
22403 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
22404 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
22405 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
22406 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
22407 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
22408 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
22409 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
22410 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
22411 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
22412 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
22415 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
22416 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
22417 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
22418 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
22419 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
22420 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
22421 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
22423 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
22424 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
22425 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
22426 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
22427 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
22428 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
22429 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
22430 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
22431 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
22432 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
22433 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
22434 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
22435 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
22436 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
22437 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
22438 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
22439 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
22440 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
22441 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
22442 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
22443 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
22444 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
22445 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22448 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
22449 networkstatus vote.
22450 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
22451 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
22452 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
22454 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
22455 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
22456 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
22457 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
22459 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
22460 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
22461 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
22462 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22465 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
22466 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
22468 o Documentation changes:
22469 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
22470 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
22472 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
22475 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
22476 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
22477 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
22478 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
22479 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
22480 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
22483 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
22484 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
22485 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
22486 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
22487 the rest of bug 1074.
22488 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
22489 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
22490 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22491 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
22492 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
22493 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
22494 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22495 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
22496 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
22497 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
22498 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
22499 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
22500 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
22501 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22504 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
22505 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
22506 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
22507 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
22508 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
22509 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
22510 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
22511 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
22512 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
22513 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
22514 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
22515 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
22516 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
22517 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
22519 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
22520 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
22521 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
22522 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
22523 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
22524 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
22526 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
22527 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
22528 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
22529 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
22530 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
22531 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
22532 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
22533 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
22534 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
22535 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22536 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
22537 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
22538 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
22539 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
22540 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
22541 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
22542 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
22543 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
22544 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
22545 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
22546 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
22547 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
22548 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
22549 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22550 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
22551 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
22553 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
22554 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
22555 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
22556 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
22557 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
22558 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
22560 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
22561 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
22562 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
22564 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
22565 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
22566 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
22567 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
22568 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
22569 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
22570 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
22571 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
22572 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
22573 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
22574 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
22575 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
22576 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
22580 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
22581 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
22582 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
22583 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
22584 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
22585 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
22586 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
22587 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
22588 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
22589 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
22590 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
22591 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
22593 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22595 o Minor features (log subsystem):
22596 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
22597 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
22598 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
22600 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
22601 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
22603 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
22604 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
22605 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
22608 o Packaging changes:
22609 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
22610 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
22611 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
22614 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
22615 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
22616 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
22617 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
22618 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
22619 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
22622 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
22623 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
22624 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
22625 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
22626 the rest of bug 1074.
22627 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
22628 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22629 Found by "piebeer".
22630 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
22631 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
22632 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
22633 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
22634 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
22635 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
22636 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22639 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
22641 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22644 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
22645 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
22646 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
22647 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
22648 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
22649 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
22650 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
22651 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
22652 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
22653 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
22654 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22656 o Packaging changes:
22657 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
22658 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
22659 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
22660 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
22661 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
22662 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
22665 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
22666 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
22667 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
22668 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
22669 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
22670 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
22673 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
22674 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22675 Found by "piebeer".
22676 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
22677 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
22678 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
22679 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
22682 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
22684 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
22685 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
22686 Implements ticket 2432.
22689 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
22690 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
22691 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
22694 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
22695 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
22696 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
22697 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
22698 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
22699 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
22701 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
22702 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
22703 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
22704 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
22706 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
22707 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
22708 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
22709 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
22710 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
22711 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
22712 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
22713 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
22715 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
22716 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
22717 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
22718 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
22719 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
22720 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
22721 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
22722 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
22723 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
22724 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
22725 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
22726 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
22727 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
22728 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
22731 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
22732 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
22733 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
22734 bug reported by doorss.
22735 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
22736 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
22737 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22738 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
22739 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
22741 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
22742 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
22743 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
22744 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
22745 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
22747 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
22748 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22749 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
22751 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
22752 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
22753 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
22754 Automake 1.7 or later.
22755 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
22756 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
22757 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
22758 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
22760 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
22761 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
22762 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
22765 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
22766 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
22767 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
22768 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
22770 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
22771 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
22772 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
22773 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
22774 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
22775 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
22776 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
22777 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
22778 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
22780 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
22781 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
22782 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
22785 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
22786 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
22787 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
22788 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
22789 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
22790 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
22791 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
22792 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
22793 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
22794 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
22795 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
22796 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
22797 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
22799 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
22800 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
22804 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
22805 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
22806 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
22807 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
22808 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
22810 o Major bugfixes (security):
22811 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
22812 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
22813 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
22815 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
22816 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
22817 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
22818 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
22819 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
22820 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
22821 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
22822 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
22824 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22825 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
22826 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
22827 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
22828 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
22829 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
22830 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
22831 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
22832 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
22833 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
22834 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
22835 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
22836 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
22837 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
22840 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22841 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
22842 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
22843 bug reported by doorss.
22844 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
22845 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
22846 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22847 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
22848 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
22850 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
22851 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
22852 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
22853 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
22854 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
22855 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
22856 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
22857 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
22858 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
22861 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22862 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
22865 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
22866 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
22867 Automake 1.7 or later.
22870 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
22871 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
22872 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
22873 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
22874 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
22877 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
22878 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
22879 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
22880 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
22881 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
22882 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
22883 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
22884 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
22885 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
22886 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
22887 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
22889 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
22890 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
22891 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
22892 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
22894 o Directory authority changes:
22895 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
22898 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
22899 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
22900 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
22901 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
22902 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
22903 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
22904 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
22905 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
22906 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
22909 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22910 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
22911 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
22912 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
22913 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
22914 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
22915 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
22916 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
22917 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
22918 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
22922 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
22923 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
22924 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
22925 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
22929 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
22930 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
22931 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
22932 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
22934 o Directory authority changes:
22935 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
22938 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22941 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
22942 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
22943 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
22944 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
22945 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
22948 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
22949 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
22950 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
22951 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
22952 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22953 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
22954 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
22955 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
22956 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
22957 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22958 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
22959 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
22960 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
22961 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
22962 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
22963 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
22964 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
22965 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
22966 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
22967 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
22968 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
22969 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
22970 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
22973 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
22974 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
22975 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
22976 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
22978 o New directory authorities:
22979 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
22983 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
22984 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
22985 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
22987 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
22988 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
22989 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
22990 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
22991 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
22992 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
22994 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
22995 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
22996 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
22999 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
23000 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
23001 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
23002 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
23003 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
23004 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
23005 Patch from mingw-san.
23008 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
23009 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
23010 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
23011 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
23012 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
23013 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
23016 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
23017 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
23018 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
23021 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
23022 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
23023 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
23024 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
23025 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23028 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
23029 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
23030 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
23031 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
23032 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
23033 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
23034 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
23035 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
23036 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
23039 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
23040 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
23041 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
23042 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
23043 to a stable release.
23046 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
23047 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
23048 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
23049 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
23050 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
23051 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
23052 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
23053 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
23054 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23055 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
23056 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
23057 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
23058 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
23059 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
23060 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
23061 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
23062 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
23063 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
23064 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
23065 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
23066 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
23067 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
23068 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
23069 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
23070 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
23071 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
23072 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
23073 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
23074 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
23075 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
23076 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
23079 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
23080 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
23081 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
23082 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
23083 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
23084 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
23085 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
23086 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
23087 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
23088 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
23089 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
23090 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
23091 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
23092 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23093 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
23094 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
23095 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
23097 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
23098 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
23099 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
23100 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
23101 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
23103 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
23104 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
23105 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
23106 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
23109 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
23110 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
23111 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
23112 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
23113 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
23114 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
23115 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
23116 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23118 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23119 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
23120 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
23121 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
23122 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
23123 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
23124 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
23125 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
23126 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
23127 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
23128 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
23129 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
23130 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
23131 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
23132 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
23135 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
23136 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
23137 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
23138 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
23139 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
23140 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
23141 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
23142 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
23143 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
23146 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
23147 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
23148 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
23149 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
23150 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
23152 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
23153 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
23154 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
23155 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
23156 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
23157 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
23158 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23159 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
23160 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
23161 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
23162 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
23163 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
23164 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
23165 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
23167 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
23168 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
23170 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
23171 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
23172 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
23173 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
23174 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
23175 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
23176 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
23177 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
23178 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
23179 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
23180 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
23181 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
23182 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
23183 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
23184 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
23185 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
23186 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
23187 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
23189 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
23190 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
23191 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
23192 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
23193 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
23194 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
23195 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
23196 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
23197 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
23198 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
23199 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
23200 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
23201 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
23203 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
23204 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
23205 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
23206 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23209 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
23210 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
23211 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
23212 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
23213 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
23214 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
23215 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
23216 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
23217 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
23218 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
23219 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
23220 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
23221 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
23222 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
23223 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
23224 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
23225 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
23226 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
23227 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
23230 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
23231 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
23232 based on the time during which we were active and not in
23233 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
23234 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
23235 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
23236 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
23237 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23239 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
23240 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
23241 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
23242 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
23243 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
23244 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
23245 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
23246 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
23247 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
23248 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
23251 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
23252 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
23253 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
23254 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
23256 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
23257 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
23258 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
23259 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
23260 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
23261 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
23262 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
23263 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
23264 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
23265 the longest-lived bug prize.
23266 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
23267 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
23268 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
23269 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
23270 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
23271 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
23273 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
23274 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
23275 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
23276 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
23277 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
23278 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
23282 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23283 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
23284 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
23285 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
23286 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
23287 got suppressed since the last warning.
23288 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
23289 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
23290 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
23291 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
23292 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
23293 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
23294 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
23295 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
23296 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
23297 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
23298 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
23299 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
23300 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
23301 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
23302 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
23303 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
23304 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
23305 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
23306 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
23308 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
23309 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
23310 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
23312 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
23313 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
23314 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
23315 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
23316 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
23317 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
23318 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
23319 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
23320 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
23321 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
23322 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
23323 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
23324 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
23325 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
23326 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
23328 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
23329 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
23330 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
23331 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
23332 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
23333 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23334 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
23336 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
23337 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
23338 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
23339 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
23340 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
23343 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
23344 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
23345 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
23346 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
23347 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
23348 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
23349 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
23350 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
23351 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
23352 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
23353 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
23354 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
23355 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
23356 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
23357 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
23358 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
23359 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
23360 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
23363 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
23366 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
23367 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
23368 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
23369 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
23370 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
23374 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
23375 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
23376 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
23377 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
23378 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
23379 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
23380 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
23381 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
23382 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
23383 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
23384 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
23385 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
23386 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
23387 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
23388 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
23389 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
23390 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
23393 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
23394 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
23395 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
23396 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
23397 they first get the Guard flag.
23398 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
23402 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23403 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
23404 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
23405 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
23406 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
23407 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
23408 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
23409 Patch from mingw-san.
23410 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
23411 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
23413 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
23414 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
23415 Implements enhancement 1790.
23417 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
23418 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
23419 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
23420 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
23421 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
23422 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
23423 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
23424 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
23425 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
23426 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
23427 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
23428 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
23429 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
23430 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
23431 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
23432 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
23433 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
23434 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
23435 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
23436 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
23438 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
23439 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
23440 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
23441 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
23442 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
23443 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
23444 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
23445 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
23446 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
23447 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
23448 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
23449 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
23450 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
23452 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
23453 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
23454 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
23455 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
23456 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
23457 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
23459 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
23460 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
23461 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
23462 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
23463 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
23464 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
23465 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
23466 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23467 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
23468 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
23469 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
23470 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
23472 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
23473 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
23474 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
23475 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
23476 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
23477 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
23478 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
23480 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
23482 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
23483 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
23484 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
23485 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
23486 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
23487 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
23489 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23490 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
23491 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
23492 structures and defines in or.h for now.
23493 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
23494 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
23495 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
23496 statistics code to be more easily tested.
23497 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
23498 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
23499 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
23502 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
23503 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
23504 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
23505 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
23506 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
23507 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
23511 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
23512 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
23513 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
23514 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
23515 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
23516 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
23517 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
23518 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
23519 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
23520 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
23521 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
23522 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
23523 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
23525 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
23526 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
23527 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
23528 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
23529 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
23530 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
23531 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
23532 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
23533 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
23534 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
23535 can be controlled by the consensus.
23538 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
23539 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
23540 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
23541 more accurate data for many African countries.
23542 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
23543 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
23544 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23545 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
23546 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
23547 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
23548 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
23549 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
23550 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
23551 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23552 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
23553 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
23555 o New directory authorities:
23556 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
23560 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
23561 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
23562 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
23563 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
23564 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
23565 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
23566 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
23567 what should go in a patch.
23568 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
23569 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
23570 over our stored history.
23571 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
23572 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
23573 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
23574 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
23575 file. Fixes bug 1296.
23576 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
23577 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
23578 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
23582 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
23584 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
23585 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
23586 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
23587 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
23588 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
23589 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
23590 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
23591 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
23592 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
23593 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
23594 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
23595 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23596 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
23597 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
23598 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
23599 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
23600 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
23601 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
23602 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
23603 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
23604 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
23605 two-hop circuits are actually created.
23606 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
23607 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
23608 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
23609 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
23612 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
23613 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
23614 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
23615 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
23616 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
23618 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
23619 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
23622 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
23623 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
23624 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
23625 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
23626 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
23627 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
23628 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
23629 their directory fetches over TLS).
23630 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
23631 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
23632 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
23633 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
23634 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
23635 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
23636 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
23637 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
23640 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
23641 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
23645 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
23646 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23647 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
23648 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
23649 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
23650 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
23651 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23654 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
23655 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
23656 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
23657 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
23658 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
23661 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
23662 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
23663 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
23664 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
23665 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
23666 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
23667 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
23668 their directory fetches over TLS).
23671 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
23672 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
23674 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
23675 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
23676 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
23677 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
23678 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
23679 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
23680 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
23681 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
23682 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
23683 hour of their uptime.
23686 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
23687 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
23688 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
23692 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
23693 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
23694 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
23695 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
23696 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
23697 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
23699 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
23700 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
23701 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
23703 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
23704 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
23708 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
23709 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
23710 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
23714 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
23715 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
23716 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
23719 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
23720 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
23721 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
23722 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
23723 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
23724 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
23725 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
23726 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
23727 about the option without breaking older ones.
23728 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
23729 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
23730 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
23731 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
23734 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
23735 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
23736 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
23737 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
23739 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
23740 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
23741 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
23744 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
23745 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
23747 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
23748 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
23749 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
23750 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
23751 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
23752 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
23753 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
23754 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
23755 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
23756 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
23757 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
23760 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
23761 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23762 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
23763 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
23764 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
23765 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
23766 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23769 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
23770 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
23771 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
23772 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
23773 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
23774 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
23777 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
23778 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
23779 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
23780 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
23782 o Major features (performance):
23783 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
23784 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
23785 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
23786 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
23787 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
23788 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
23789 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
23791 o Minor features (performance):
23792 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
23793 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
23794 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
23795 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
23796 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
23800 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
23801 speeds up the build considerably.
23803 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
23804 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
23805 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
23806 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
23807 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
23808 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
23809 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
23810 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
23812 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
23813 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
23814 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
23816 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
23817 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
23818 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
23819 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
23821 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23822 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
23823 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
23824 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
23825 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
23826 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
23829 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
23830 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
23831 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
23833 o Directory authority changes:
23834 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
23835 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
23836 service directory authority) from the list.
23839 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
23840 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
23841 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
23842 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
23843 libraries in a security patch.
23844 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
23845 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
23846 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
23847 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
23849 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
23850 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
23851 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
23852 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
23853 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
23854 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
23855 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
23858 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
23859 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
23860 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
23861 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
23862 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
23863 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
23864 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
23865 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
23866 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
23867 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
23868 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
23869 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
23870 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
23872 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
23873 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
23874 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
23875 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
23876 control-spec.txt said they were.
23877 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
23878 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
23879 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
23880 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
23881 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23883 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23884 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
23885 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
23886 produce nicer HTML.
23887 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
23888 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
23889 iPhone SDK versions.
23890 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
23891 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
23892 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
23893 projects directory in svn.
23894 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
23895 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
23896 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
23897 high latency links.
23900 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
23901 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
23902 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
23904 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
23905 to the circuit build timeout.
23906 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
23907 arguments we do not recognize.
23908 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
23909 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
23910 open() without checking it.
23913 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
23914 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
23915 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
23916 several minor potential security bugs.
23919 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
23920 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
23921 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
23922 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
23923 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
23924 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
23925 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
23928 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
23929 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
23931 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
23932 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
23933 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
23934 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
23938 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
23939 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
23943 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
23944 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
23945 customized patches to run/build.
23948 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
23949 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
23950 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
23953 o Major bugfixes (performance):
23954 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
23955 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
23956 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
23957 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
23958 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
23959 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
23960 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
23963 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
23964 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
23965 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
23966 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
23967 libraries in a security patch.
23968 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
23969 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
23970 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
23971 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
23974 o Directory authority changes:
23975 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
23976 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
23977 service directory authority) from the list.
23980 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
23981 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
23984 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
23985 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
23986 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
23987 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
23988 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
23991 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
23992 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
23993 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
23997 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
23998 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
23999 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
24000 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
24001 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
24004 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
24005 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
24006 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
24010 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
24011 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
24012 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
24013 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
24014 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
24016 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
24017 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
24019 o Directory authority changes:
24020 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
24023 o Major features (performance):
24024 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
24025 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
24026 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
24027 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
24028 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
24029 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
24030 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
24031 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
24032 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
24033 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
24034 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
24035 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
24036 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
24038 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
24039 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
24040 but never per-conn write limits.
24041 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
24042 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
24043 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
24044 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
24046 o Major features (relay selection options):
24047 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
24048 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
24049 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
24050 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
24051 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
24052 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
24053 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
24055 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
24056 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
24058 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
24059 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
24060 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
24061 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
24062 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
24063 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
24064 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
24065 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
24066 the network changes.
24069 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
24070 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
24071 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24074 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
24075 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
24076 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
24077 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
24078 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
24079 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
24080 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
24081 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
24082 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
24083 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
24084 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
24085 generated while acting as a relay.
24086 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
24087 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
24088 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
24089 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
24090 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
24091 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
24093 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
24094 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
24095 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24096 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
24097 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
24098 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
24101 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
24102 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
24103 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
24105 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
24106 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
24107 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
24109 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
24110 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
24112 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
24113 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
24114 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
24116 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
24117 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
24120 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24121 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
24122 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
24123 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
24124 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
24125 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
24126 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
24127 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
24128 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
24130 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
24133 o Removed features:
24134 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
24135 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
24136 hidden service usage.
24139 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
24140 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
24141 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
24142 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
24143 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
24145 o Directory authority changes:
24146 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
24150 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
24151 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
24152 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24155 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
24156 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
24157 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
24158 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
24159 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
24162 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
24163 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
24164 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
24165 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
24166 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
24167 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
24168 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
24171 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
24172 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
24173 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24174 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
24175 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
24176 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
24178 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
24179 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
24182 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
24183 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
24184 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
24185 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
24186 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
24187 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
24190 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
24191 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
24192 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
24194 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
24195 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
24196 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
24197 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
24198 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
24199 download consensus + microdescriptors".
24200 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
24201 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
24202 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
24203 hash algorithm in the future.
24204 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
24205 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
24206 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
24207 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
24208 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
24209 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
24210 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
24211 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
24212 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
24215 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
24216 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
24217 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
24218 won't work unless we say we are.
24221 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
24222 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
24223 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
24224 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
24225 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
24226 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
24227 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
24228 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
24229 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24230 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
24231 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
24232 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
24233 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
24234 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
24235 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
24236 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
24237 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
24238 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
24239 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
24240 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
24241 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
24242 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
24245 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
24246 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
24247 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
24248 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
24250 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
24251 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
24253 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
24254 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
24255 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
24256 in the Vidalia Settings window.
24259 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
24260 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
24261 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
24262 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
24263 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
24265 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
24266 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
24268 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
24269 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
24270 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
24273 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
24274 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
24275 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
24277 o New directory authorities:
24278 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
24280 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
24283 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
24284 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
24286 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
24287 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
24288 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24289 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
24290 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
24291 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
24292 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24293 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24294 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
24295 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
24296 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
24297 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
24298 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
24299 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
24300 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
24301 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
24302 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
24304 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
24305 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
24306 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
24308 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
24309 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
24313 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
24314 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
24315 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
24316 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
24317 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
24320 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
24321 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
24324 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
24326 o Directory authorities:
24327 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
24331 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
24332 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
24333 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
24334 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
24335 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
24338 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
24339 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
24340 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
24341 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
24343 o New directory authorities:
24344 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
24347 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
24348 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
24349 SSL handshake issues.
24350 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
24351 during the TLS handshake.
24352 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
24353 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
24354 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
24355 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
24356 none of which are very big.
24359 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
24361 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
24362 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
24363 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
24364 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
24365 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
24366 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
24367 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
24368 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
24371 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24372 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
24373 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
24374 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
24375 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
24378 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
24379 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
24382 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
24383 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
24386 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
24387 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
24388 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
24391 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
24392 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
24393 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
24394 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
24395 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
24396 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
24399 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
24400 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
24401 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
24402 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
24403 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
24404 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
24405 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
24406 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
24407 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
24408 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
24409 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
24410 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
24411 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
24412 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
24413 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
24414 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
24415 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
24416 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
24419 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
24420 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
24424 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
24425 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
24426 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24427 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
24428 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
24429 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
24430 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24431 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
24432 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
24433 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
24434 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24435 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24436 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
24437 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
24438 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
24439 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
24440 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
24441 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
24442 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
24443 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
24444 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
24446 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
24447 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
24448 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
24449 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24450 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
24451 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
24453 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
24454 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
24455 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
24458 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
24459 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
24460 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
24461 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
24462 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
24463 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
24466 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
24467 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
24468 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
24469 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
24470 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
24473 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
24474 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
24475 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
24478 o New directory authorities:
24479 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
24483 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
24484 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
24485 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
24486 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
24487 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
24490 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
24491 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
24492 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
24493 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
24494 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
24497 o New options for gathering stats safely:
24498 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
24499 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
24500 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
24501 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
24502 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
24503 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
24504 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
24505 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
24506 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
24508 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
24509 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
24510 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
24511 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
24513 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
24514 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
24515 their extra-info documents.
24518 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
24519 source files Tor was built with.
24520 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
24521 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
24522 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
24523 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
24524 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
24525 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
24527 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
24528 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
24529 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
24530 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
24531 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
24533 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
24534 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
24537 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
24538 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
24539 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
24540 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
24541 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
24543 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
24544 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
24546 o Deprecated and removed features:
24547 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
24548 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
24549 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
24550 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
24551 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
24552 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
24553 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
24554 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
24556 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
24557 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
24558 via application-level web tricks.
24560 o Packaging changes:
24561 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
24562 installer bundles. See
24563 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
24564 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
24565 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
24566 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
24567 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
24568 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
24569 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
24570 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
24571 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
24572 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
24573 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
24574 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
24577 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
24578 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
24579 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
24582 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
24583 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
24584 part of patch provided by "optimist".
24587 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
24588 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
24589 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
24590 and confuse fewer users.
24593 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
24594 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
24595 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
24596 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
24597 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
24598 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
24599 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
24602 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
24603 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
24604 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
24605 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
24606 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
24607 other features and bug fixes.
24610 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
24613 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
24614 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
24615 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
24616 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
24617 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
24620 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
24621 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
24622 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
24623 failure message (oops).
24626 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
24627 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
24628 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
24629 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
24633 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
24634 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
24635 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
24636 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
24637 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
24638 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
24639 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24640 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
24641 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
24642 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
24643 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
24644 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
24645 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
24646 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
24647 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
24650 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
24651 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
24652 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
24653 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
24654 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
24655 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
24656 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
24657 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
24658 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
24659 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
24660 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
24661 Workaround for bug 1024.
24662 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
24666 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
24667 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
24668 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
24671 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
24673 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
24674 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
24675 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
24676 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
24677 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24680 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
24681 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
24682 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
24683 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
24684 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
24685 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
24686 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
24687 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
24688 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
24689 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
24692 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
24693 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
24694 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
24695 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
24696 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
24697 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
24698 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
24699 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
24702 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
24703 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
24704 a bunch of minor bugs.
24707 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
24708 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
24709 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24711 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
24712 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
24713 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
24714 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
24716 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
24720 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
24721 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
24722 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
24724 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
24725 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
24727 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
24728 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
24730 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
24731 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
24732 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
24733 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
24734 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
24735 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
24736 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
24737 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
24739 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
24740 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
24741 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
24743 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
24744 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
24745 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
24746 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
24747 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
24751 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
24752 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
24753 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
24754 of more minor bugs.
24756 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
24757 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
24758 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
24759 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
24761 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
24762 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
24763 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
24764 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24765 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
24766 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
24767 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
24768 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
24769 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
24770 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
24771 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
24772 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24773 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
24774 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
24775 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
24776 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
24777 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
24779 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
24780 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
24781 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
24782 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24784 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
24785 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
24786 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
24789 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
24790 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
24791 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
24792 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
24793 addresses to fall out of the directory.
24796 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
24797 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
24798 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
24799 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
24801 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
24802 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
24803 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
24804 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
24805 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
24806 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
24807 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
24808 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
24809 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
24810 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
24811 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
24812 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
24813 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
24814 patch by Sebastian.
24815 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
24816 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
24819 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
24820 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
24821 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
24822 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
24823 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
24824 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
24826 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
24827 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
24828 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
24829 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
24830 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
24832 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
24835 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
24836 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
24838 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
24839 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
24840 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24841 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24842 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
24843 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
24845 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
24846 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24847 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
24848 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
24849 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
24850 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24851 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
24852 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
24853 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
24854 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
24855 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
24856 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
24860 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
24861 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
24862 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
24865 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
24866 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
24867 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24869 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
24870 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
24871 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
24872 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
24873 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
24874 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
24875 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
24876 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
24877 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
24878 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
24879 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
24880 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24881 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
24882 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
24883 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
24884 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
24885 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
24886 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
24887 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
24888 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
24889 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
24890 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
24891 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
24892 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
24893 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
24894 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
24896 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
24897 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
24898 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
24899 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
24900 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
24901 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
24902 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
24903 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
24904 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
24905 of 0. Suggested by lark.
24907 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
24908 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
24909 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
24910 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
24911 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
24914 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
24916 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
24917 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
24918 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
24919 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
24922 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
24923 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
24924 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
24925 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
24926 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
24928 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
24929 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
24930 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
24931 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
24934 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
24935 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24936 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
24937 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
24938 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
24939 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
24940 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
24941 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
24944 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
24945 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
24946 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
24947 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
24950 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
24951 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
24952 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
24953 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
24954 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
24955 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
24958 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
24959 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24960 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
24961 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
24962 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
24963 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24966 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
24967 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
24968 reported by Matt Edman.
24969 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
24971 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
24972 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
24973 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
24974 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
24976 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
24977 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24978 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
24979 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24980 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
24981 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
24982 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
24983 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
24984 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
24985 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
24986 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
24987 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
24988 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
24989 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24990 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
24991 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24992 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
24993 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
24994 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24997 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
24998 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
24999 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
25000 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
25003 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
25004 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
25005 the letter of C99's alias rules.
25008 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
25009 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
25010 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
25011 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
25013 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
25014 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
25015 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
25018 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
25019 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
25022 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
25023 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
25024 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
25025 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
25026 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
25027 reported by "wood".
25028 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
25029 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
25030 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
25031 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
25032 identify a connection.
25033 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
25034 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
25035 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
25036 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
25037 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
25038 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
25039 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25040 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
25041 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
25042 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
25044 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
25045 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
25046 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
25047 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
25048 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
25049 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
25050 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
25053 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
25054 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
25056 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
25057 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
25058 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
25059 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
25060 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
25061 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
25062 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25063 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
25065 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
25066 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
25067 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
25068 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
25069 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
25070 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
25071 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
25072 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
25073 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
25074 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
25075 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
25076 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
25077 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
25078 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
25079 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25080 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
25081 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
25082 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25083 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
25084 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
25085 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
25086 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
25087 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
25088 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
25089 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
25090 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
25091 840. Patch from rovv.
25092 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
25093 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
25094 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
25096 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
25097 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
25098 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
25099 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
25100 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
25101 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
25102 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
25104 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25105 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
25106 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
25109 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
25110 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
25112 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
25113 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
25114 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
25115 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
25116 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
25117 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
25118 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
25119 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
25120 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
25122 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
25124 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
25125 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
25129 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
25130 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
25131 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
25132 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
25133 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
25134 have had some time to upgrade.)
25137 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
25138 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
25141 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
25142 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
25143 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
25144 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
25145 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
25148 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
25149 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
25151 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
25152 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
25153 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
25154 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
25155 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
25156 entirely. Patch from coderman.
25159 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
25160 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
25161 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
25162 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
25163 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
25164 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25165 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
25169 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
25170 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
25171 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
25172 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
25173 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
25174 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
25175 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
25178 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
25179 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
25180 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
25181 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
25182 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
25184 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
25185 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
25186 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
25187 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
25188 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
25189 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
25190 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25191 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
25192 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
25193 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
25197 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
25198 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
25199 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
25201 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
25202 without support for deprecated functions.
25203 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
25205 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
25206 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
25207 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
25208 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
25209 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25210 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
25211 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
25212 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
25213 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
25214 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
25215 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
25216 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
25217 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
25218 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
25219 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
25220 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
25221 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
25222 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
25223 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
25224 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
25225 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
25226 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
25227 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
25229 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
25230 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
25231 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
25232 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
25233 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
25234 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
25236 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
25237 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
25238 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
25239 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
25240 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
25242 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
25243 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
25244 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
25246 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
25247 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
25250 o Deprecated and removed features:
25251 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
25252 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
25253 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
25256 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25257 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
25258 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
25259 with log.h on Android.
25260 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
25261 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
25264 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
25265 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
25267 o New directory authorities:
25268 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
25272 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
25273 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
25274 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
25275 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
25276 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
25277 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
25280 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
25281 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
25282 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
25283 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
25284 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
25285 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
25286 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
25287 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
25288 reported by "wood".
25289 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
25290 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
25291 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
25292 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
25295 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
25296 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
25298 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
25299 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
25300 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
25301 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
25302 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
25303 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
25304 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
25305 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
25306 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
25307 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
25308 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
25309 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
25310 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
25311 Implements proposal 148.
25312 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
25313 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
25314 system to do it for us.
25315 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
25316 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
25317 this fix will be slightly helpful.
25318 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
25319 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
25320 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
25321 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
25322 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
25323 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
25324 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
25325 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
25326 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
25329 o Minor features (controller):
25330 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
25331 been fetched and validated.
25332 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
25333 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
25334 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
25335 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
25336 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
25337 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
25340 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
25341 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
25342 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
25343 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
25344 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
25346 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
25347 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
25348 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25349 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
25350 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
25351 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25352 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
25353 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
25354 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
25356 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25357 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
25358 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
25359 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
25360 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
25361 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
25362 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
25363 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
25365 o Deprecated and removed features:
25366 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
25368 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
25369 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
25370 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
25372 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25373 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
25374 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
25376 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
25377 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
25378 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
25379 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
25380 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
25381 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
25384 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
25385 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
25386 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
25387 fixes a variety of other issues.
25390 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
25391 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
25392 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
25393 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
25396 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
25397 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
25398 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
25399 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25402 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
25403 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25404 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
25408 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
25410 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
25411 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
25412 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
25413 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
25414 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
25415 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
25416 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
25418 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
25419 rest, and don't automatically fail.
25420 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
25421 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
25422 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
25423 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
25425 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
25426 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
25427 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
25428 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
25429 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
25430 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
25431 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
25432 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
25433 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
25434 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
25436 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
25440 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
25441 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
25442 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
25444 o Minor features (controller):
25445 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
25449 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
25450 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
25451 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
25452 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
25453 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
25454 variety of other issues.
25457 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
25458 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
25459 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
25460 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
25461 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
25462 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
25463 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
25464 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
25465 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
25466 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
25467 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
25468 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
25471 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
25472 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25474 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25475 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
25476 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
25477 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
25478 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
25479 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
25480 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25481 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
25482 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
25483 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
25484 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
25485 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
25486 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
25487 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
25488 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
25492 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
25493 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
25494 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
25495 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
25496 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
25497 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
25498 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
25499 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
25500 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
25501 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
25502 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
25503 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
25504 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
25505 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
25506 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
25507 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
25508 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
25509 list. It has been gone for many months.
25510 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
25511 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
25512 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
25515 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25516 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
25517 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
25520 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
25521 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
25522 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
25523 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
25524 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
25525 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
25526 variety of other issues.
25529 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
25530 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
25531 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
25532 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
25533 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
25534 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
25535 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
25536 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
25537 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
25538 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
25539 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
25540 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
25541 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
25542 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
25545 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
25546 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
25547 Suggested by Lucky Green.
25548 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
25549 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
25550 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
25551 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
25552 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
25553 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
25555 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
25556 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
25558 o Hidden service performance improvements:
25559 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
25560 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
25561 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
25562 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
25563 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
25564 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
25565 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
25566 faster after restart.
25569 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
25570 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
25571 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
25572 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
25573 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
25574 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
25575 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
25576 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
25577 840. Patch from rovv.
25578 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
25579 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
25580 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
25581 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
25582 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
25583 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
25584 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
25585 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
25586 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
25588 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
25589 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
25590 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
25591 have already been marked for close.
25592 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
25593 introduction points.
25594 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
25595 memory performance during directory parsing.
25596 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
25597 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
25598 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
25599 because of a pending download.
25602 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
25603 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
25604 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
25605 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25608 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
25609 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
25610 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
25611 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
25612 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
25613 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
25614 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
25615 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
25616 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
25617 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
25618 lookups more reliable.
25619 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
25620 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
25621 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
25622 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
25623 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
25624 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
25625 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25628 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
25629 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
25630 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25631 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
25632 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
25633 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
25634 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
25635 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
25636 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
25637 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
25638 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
25640 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
25641 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
25642 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
25643 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
25644 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
25645 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25646 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
25647 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
25648 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25651 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
25652 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
25653 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
25654 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
25655 locked down these days.
25656 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
25657 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
25658 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
25659 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
25660 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
25662 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
25663 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
25664 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
25665 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
25666 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
25667 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
25668 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
25669 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
25670 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
25671 people find host:port too confusing.
25672 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
25673 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25674 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
25677 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25679 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
25680 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
25681 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
25682 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
25683 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
25685 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
25686 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
25687 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
25688 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
25689 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
25690 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
25691 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
25692 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
25693 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
25694 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
25695 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
25696 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
25698 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
25699 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
25700 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
25701 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
25702 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
25703 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
25704 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25705 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
25706 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
25708 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
25709 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
25710 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
25711 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
25712 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
25713 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25714 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
25715 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
25716 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
25717 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
25718 bug 820, reported by seeess.
25719 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
25720 list. It has been gone for many months.
25722 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25723 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
25724 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
25725 actual mistakes we're making here.
25726 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
25727 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
25728 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
25729 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
25732 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
25733 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
25734 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
25735 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25738 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25739 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25740 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25741 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
25742 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
25743 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
25745 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
25746 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
25747 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
25748 pointed out by rovv.
25751 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
25752 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25753 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
25754 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25755 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
25756 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
25757 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
25758 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
25759 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
25760 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25761 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
25762 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
25763 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
25764 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25765 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
25766 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
25767 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
25768 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
25769 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
25770 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
25771 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
25774 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
25775 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
25776 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
25777 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
25778 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
25779 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
25780 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25783 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
25785 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
25786 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
25787 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
25788 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
25789 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
25790 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
25791 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
25793 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
25794 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
25795 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
25796 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
25797 known descriptor before building circuits.
25799 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
25800 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
25801 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
25802 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
25803 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
25804 identify a connection.
25805 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
25806 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
25807 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
25809 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
25810 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
25811 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
25812 pointed out by rovv.
25815 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
25816 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25817 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
25818 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
25819 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
25820 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25821 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
25822 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25823 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
25824 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
25825 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
25826 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
25827 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
25828 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
25829 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25832 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
25833 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
25834 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
25835 answer sections match.
25836 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
25837 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
25840 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
25841 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25844 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
25845 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
25846 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
25848 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
25849 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
25850 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25853 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
25854 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
25855 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
25856 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
25859 o Removed features:
25860 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
25861 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
25864 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
25865 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
25866 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
25867 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
25868 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
25869 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
25871 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
25872 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
25873 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
25876 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
25877 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
25878 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
25879 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
25880 be sent using an "early" cell.
25883 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
25884 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
25885 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
25886 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
25887 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25888 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25889 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25892 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
25893 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
25894 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
25895 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
25896 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
25897 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
25898 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
25899 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
25900 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
25901 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
25902 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
25903 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
25904 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
25905 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
25906 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
25907 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
25910 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
25911 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
25912 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
25913 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
25914 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
25915 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
25916 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
25917 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
25918 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
25920 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
25921 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
25922 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
25923 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
25924 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
25927 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25928 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
25929 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
25930 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
25932 o Removed features:
25933 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
25934 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
25938 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
25940 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
25941 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
25942 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
25945 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
25946 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
25947 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
25950 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
25951 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
25952 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
25953 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
25954 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25955 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
25956 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
25957 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
25958 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25959 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
25960 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
25961 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
25962 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
25963 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
25964 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
25965 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
25966 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
25967 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
25968 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
25969 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
25970 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
25971 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
25972 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
25975 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
25976 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
25978 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
25979 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
25980 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
25981 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
25982 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
25983 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
25984 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
25986 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
25987 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
25988 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
25989 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
25990 found by Geoff Goodell.
25993 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
25994 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
25995 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
25996 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
25997 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
25998 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
26001 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
26002 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
26003 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
26006 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
26007 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
26008 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
26009 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
26010 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26011 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
26012 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
26013 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
26014 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26015 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
26016 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
26017 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
26018 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
26019 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
26022 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
26023 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
26024 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
26026 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
26027 fingerprints with or without space.
26028 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
26029 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
26030 partway through and wants to catch up.
26031 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
26032 state to start out in.
26035 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
26036 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
26037 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
26038 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
26039 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
26042 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
26043 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
26044 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
26045 some of the connection attempts fail.
26046 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
26047 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
26048 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
26049 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
26050 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
26051 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
26053 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
26054 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
26055 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
26058 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
26059 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
26060 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
26061 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
26062 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
26063 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
26064 and adds a variety of smaller features.
26067 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
26068 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
26069 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
26070 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
26072 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
26073 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
26074 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
26075 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
26077 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
26078 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
26079 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
26080 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
26081 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
26082 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
26083 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
26086 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
26087 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
26088 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
26089 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
26090 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
26092 o Memory fixes and improvements:
26093 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
26094 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
26095 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
26096 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
26097 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
26098 on a typical directory cache.
26099 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
26100 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
26101 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
26102 and may reduce fragmentation.
26103 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
26104 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
26105 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
26107 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
26108 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
26109 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
26111 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
26112 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
26116 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
26117 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
26118 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
26119 done that for a long time.
26120 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
26121 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
26122 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
26123 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
26126 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
26127 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
26128 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
26129 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
26130 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
26131 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
26133 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
26134 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
26135 output to messages of warning and error severity.
26136 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
26137 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
26138 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
26139 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
26140 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
26141 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
26142 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
26143 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
26144 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
26145 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
26146 directory requests we should expect to see.
26147 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
26149 - Lots of new unit tests.
26150 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
26151 two parallel lists in lockstep.
26154 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
26155 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
26156 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
26159 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
26160 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
26161 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
26162 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
26163 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
26164 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
26165 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
26168 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
26169 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
26170 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
26174 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
26175 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
26176 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
26179 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
26180 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
26181 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
26183 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
26184 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
26186 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
26187 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
26188 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
26189 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
26190 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26191 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
26192 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
26194 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
26195 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
26196 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
26197 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
26198 - Fix compile on Windows.
26201 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
26202 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
26203 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
26204 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
26205 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
26206 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
26207 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
26210 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
26211 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
26214 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
26215 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
26216 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
26217 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
26219 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
26220 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
26221 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
26224 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
26225 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
26226 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
26227 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
26231 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
26232 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
26233 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
26234 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
26236 o Major security fixes:
26237 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
26238 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
26239 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
26240 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
26241 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
26244 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
26245 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26248 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
26249 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
26252 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
26253 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
26256 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
26257 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
26258 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
26261 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
26262 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26265 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
26266 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
26267 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
26268 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
26269 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
26271 o New directory authorities:
26272 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
26273 it has been down for months.
26274 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
26278 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
26279 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
26281 o Minor features (security):
26282 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
26283 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
26284 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
26287 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
26288 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
26289 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
26290 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
26291 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
26292 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
26293 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
26294 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
26295 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26297 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
26298 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
26299 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26300 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
26301 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
26302 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
26303 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26304 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
26305 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
26307 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26308 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
26309 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
26310 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
26311 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
26312 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
26313 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
26314 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
26315 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
26316 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
26317 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26318 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
26319 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
26320 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
26321 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
26322 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
26323 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
26324 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
26325 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
26328 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
26329 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
26330 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
26331 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
26334 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
26335 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
26336 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
26337 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
26340 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
26341 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
26342 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
26343 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
26344 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
26347 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
26348 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
26349 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
26350 certain censored countries by default again.
26353 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
26354 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26355 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
26356 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
26357 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26358 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
26359 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
26360 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
26362 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
26363 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
26364 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
26365 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
26366 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
26367 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
26368 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
26369 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
26370 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
26371 a directory. Fix from lodger.
26373 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
26374 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
26375 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
26376 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
26377 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
26378 RelayBandwidth* values.
26379 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
26380 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
26381 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
26382 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
26383 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
26384 get_interface_address6().
26385 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
26386 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
26387 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
26389 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
26390 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
26391 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
26392 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26393 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
26394 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
26395 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26396 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
26397 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
26398 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26401 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
26402 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
26403 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
26406 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
26407 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
26408 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
26409 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
26410 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
26413 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
26414 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
26415 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
26416 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
26417 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
26418 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
26419 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
26420 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
26421 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
26424 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
26425 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
26426 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
26427 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26430 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
26431 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
26432 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
26433 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
26434 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
26435 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
26436 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
26439 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
26440 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
26441 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
26442 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
26443 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
26444 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
26445 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
26447 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
26448 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
26449 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
26450 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
26451 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
26454 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
26455 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
26456 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
26457 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
26458 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
26459 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
26460 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26461 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
26462 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
26463 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
26464 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
26465 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
26466 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
26467 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
26468 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
26469 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26470 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
26471 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26472 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26473 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
26474 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
26475 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
26476 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
26477 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
26478 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
26479 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
26481 o Minor features (performance):
26482 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
26484 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
26485 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
26486 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
26487 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
26488 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
26489 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
26490 non-system include paths.
26491 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
26492 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
26495 o Minor features (other):
26496 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
26498 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
26499 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
26500 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
26503 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
26504 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
26505 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
26506 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
26508 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
26509 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
26510 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
26511 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
26512 Should fix bug 537.
26513 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
26514 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
26515 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26516 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
26517 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26519 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26520 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
26521 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
26522 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
26523 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
26524 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
26525 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
26526 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
26527 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
26528 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
26529 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
26530 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
26531 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
26532 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
26533 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
26534 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26535 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
26536 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
26537 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
26538 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
26539 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
26540 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
26541 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
26542 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
26543 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
26546 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26547 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
26548 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
26552 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
26553 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
26554 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
26555 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
26556 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
26559 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
26560 Tor's x509 certificates.
26563 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
26564 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
26565 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26566 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
26567 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
26568 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26570 o Minor features (security):
26571 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
26572 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
26574 o Minor features (directory authority):
26575 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
26576 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
26577 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
26578 bandwidthburst values.
26580 o Minor features (controller):
26581 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
26582 processes from running us out of memory.
26584 o Minor features (misc):
26585 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
26586 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
26587 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
26588 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
26590 o Deprecated features (controller):
26591 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
26592 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
26593 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
26596 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
26597 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
26599 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
26600 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
26601 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26602 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
26603 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
26604 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26605 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
26606 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
26608 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
26609 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26610 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
26611 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26612 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
26613 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
26614 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
26615 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
26617 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
26618 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
26619 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
26620 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
26621 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26622 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
26623 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26624 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
26625 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26626 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
26627 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
26628 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26630 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26631 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
26633 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
26634 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
26635 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
26636 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
26637 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
26638 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
26641 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
26642 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
26643 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
26644 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
26645 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
26647 o New directory authorities:
26648 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
26652 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
26653 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
26654 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
26655 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
26656 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
26657 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
26658 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
26659 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
26663 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
26664 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
26665 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
26666 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
26667 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
26668 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
26669 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
26670 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
26671 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
26672 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
26675 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
26676 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
26677 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
26678 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
26682 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
26683 the request isn't encrypted.
26684 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
26685 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
26686 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
26687 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
26688 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
26691 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
26692 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
26695 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
26698 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
26699 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
26700 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
26702 o New directory authorities:
26703 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
26706 o Major performance improvements:
26707 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
26708 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
26709 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
26710 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
26711 memory fragmentation.
26714 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
26715 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
26716 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
26717 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
26718 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
26719 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
26720 bodies when they receive them.
26721 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
26722 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
26723 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
26725 o Minor performance improvements:
26726 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
26727 of them were actually distinct.
26728 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
26729 interested in a given message.
26732 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
26733 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
26734 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
26735 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
26736 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
26737 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
26738 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
26739 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
26740 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
26741 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
26742 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
26744 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
26745 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
26746 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
26747 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
26748 this country" and "1 person from this country".
26749 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
26750 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
26751 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
26752 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
26753 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
26755 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
26756 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
26757 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
26759 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
26760 but client versions are not.
26761 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
26762 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
26764 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
26765 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
26766 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
26767 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
26768 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
26770 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
26771 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
26772 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
26775 o Minor features (controller):
26776 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
26777 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
26778 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
26779 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
26781 o Minor features (directory authorities):
26782 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
26783 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
26784 running a test network on a single host.
26785 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
26786 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
26788 o Minor features (bridges):
26789 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
26790 unencrypted connections.
26792 o Minor features (other):
26793 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
26794 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
26795 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
26796 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
26799 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
26800 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
26801 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
26802 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
26805 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
26806 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
26807 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
26808 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
26809 on network address.
26812 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
26813 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
26814 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
26815 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
26816 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
26817 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
26818 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
26819 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
26820 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
26821 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
26822 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
26823 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
26826 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
26827 rebuild our server descriptor.
26828 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
26829 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
26830 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
26831 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
26832 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
26833 nonstandard integer types.
26834 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
26835 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
26836 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
26837 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
26838 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
26840 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
26841 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
26842 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
26843 when they receive them.
26844 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
26845 This includes some 64-bit systems.
26846 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
26847 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
26848 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
26849 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
26850 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
26851 router_get_by_hexdigest().
26852 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
26853 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
26857 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
26858 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
26859 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
26862 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
26863 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
26864 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
26865 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
26866 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
26867 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
26868 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
26869 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26872 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
26873 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
26874 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
26875 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
26877 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
26878 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
26881 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
26882 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
26885 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
26887 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
26888 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
26890 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
26891 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
26892 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
26893 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26894 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
26895 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
26896 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
26897 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
26898 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
26899 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
26903 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
26904 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
26905 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
26908 - Make the unit tests build again.
26909 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
26910 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
26911 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
26912 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
26913 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
26914 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
26915 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
26916 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
26917 the next one as a duplicate.
26920 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
26921 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
26922 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
26923 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
26926 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
26927 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
26928 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
26931 o New directory authorities:
26932 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
26936 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
26937 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
26938 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
26939 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
26940 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
26941 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
26942 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
26944 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
26945 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
26947 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
26948 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
26949 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
26950 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
26951 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
26952 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
26954 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
26955 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
26956 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
26957 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
26958 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
26959 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26962 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
26963 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
26964 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
26965 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
26966 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
26967 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
26968 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
26969 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
26970 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
26971 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
26972 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
26973 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
26974 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
26975 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
26976 where Tor is blocked.
26977 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
26978 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
26979 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
26980 to a file periodically.
26981 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
26982 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
26983 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
26987 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
26988 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
26989 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
26990 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
26991 in the relevant networkstatus document.
26992 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
26993 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
26994 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
26995 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
26996 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
26997 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
26998 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
26999 by Karsten Loesing.
27000 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
27001 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
27002 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
27003 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
27004 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
27005 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27006 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
27007 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
27008 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
27009 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27010 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
27011 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
27012 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
27013 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27014 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
27015 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
27016 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
27017 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
27018 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
27019 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27020 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27021 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
27022 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27023 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
27024 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
27025 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
27026 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
27027 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27030 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
27031 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
27032 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
27033 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
27034 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
27035 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
27036 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
27037 even if your DirPort isn't on.
27038 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
27039 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
27040 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
27042 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
27043 multiple controller passwords.
27044 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
27045 router based on the router's purpose.
27046 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
27047 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
27048 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
27049 the approved-routers file.
27052 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
27053 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
27054 well as a few minor bugs.
27057 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
27058 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
27059 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
27061 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
27062 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
27063 rebuild our server descriptor.
27065 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
27066 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
27067 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
27068 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
27069 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
27070 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
27071 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
27072 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
27073 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
27074 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
27076 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
27077 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
27078 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
27079 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
27080 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
27081 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
27082 then be flexible about families.
27085 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
27086 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
27087 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
27091 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
27092 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
27093 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
27094 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
27095 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
27098 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
27099 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
27100 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
27101 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
27102 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27105 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
27106 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
27108 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
27109 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
27110 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
27111 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
27112 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
27113 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
27114 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
27116 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
27117 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
27118 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
27119 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
27122 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
27123 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
27126 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
27127 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
27128 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27131 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
27132 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
27133 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
27134 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
27135 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
27136 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
27137 addresses many more minor issues.
27139 o New directory authorities:
27140 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
27143 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
27144 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
27145 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
27146 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
27148 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
27149 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
27150 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
27151 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
27152 and are reaching it.
27153 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
27154 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
27155 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
27156 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
27157 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
27158 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
27161 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
27162 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
27164 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
27165 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
27166 no longer work for clients.
27167 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
27168 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
27170 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
27171 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
27172 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
27173 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
27174 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
27175 enough directory information to build a circuit.
27176 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
27177 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
27178 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
27179 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
27180 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
27181 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
27183 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
27184 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
27185 requests for all of them.
27186 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
27188 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
27189 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
27190 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
27192 o New requirements:
27193 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
27194 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
27198 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
27199 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
27200 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
27201 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
27202 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
27203 networkstatuses that we already have.
27204 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
27205 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
27206 we start knowing some directory caches.
27207 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
27208 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
27209 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
27210 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
27211 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
27212 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
27213 Good in combination with --hash-password.
27214 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
27215 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
27217 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
27218 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
27219 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
27221 o Minor features (bridges):
27222 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
27223 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
27224 back to trying the bridge directly.
27225 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
27226 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
27228 o Minor features (controller):
27229 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
27230 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
27231 report the value as a "minimum skew."
27234 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
27235 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
27239 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
27240 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
27241 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
27242 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
27243 reported by tup and ioerror.
27244 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
27245 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
27247 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
27248 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
27250 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
27251 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
27252 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
27254 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
27255 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27256 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
27257 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27258 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
27259 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27260 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
27262 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
27263 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
27264 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27266 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
27267 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
27268 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
27269 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
27270 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
27273 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
27274 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
27275 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
27276 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
27277 lists for a few hours each day.
27279 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
27280 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
27281 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
27282 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
27283 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
27284 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
27285 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
27286 rend_process_relay_cell().
27288 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
27289 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
27290 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
27291 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
27292 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
27293 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
27294 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
27295 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
27297 o Major bugfixes (other):
27298 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
27299 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
27300 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
27301 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
27302 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
27303 circuit cannibalization).
27304 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
27305 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
27306 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
27307 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
27308 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
27309 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
27312 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
27313 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
27315 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
27316 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
27317 absent. Resolves bug 467.
27318 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
27319 a way to trigger this remotely.)
27320 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
27321 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
27322 were reporting the dir port.)
27323 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
27324 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
27325 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
27326 the future. Fixes bug 434.
27327 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
27329 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
27330 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
27331 the onion key from getting rotated.
27332 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
27333 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
27334 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
27335 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
27336 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
27337 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
27338 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
27339 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
27340 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
27343 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
27344 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
27345 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
27346 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
27347 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
27348 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
27350 o Major features (directory system):
27351 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
27352 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
27353 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
27354 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
27355 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
27356 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
27357 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
27358 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
27359 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
27360 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
27361 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
27362 Partially implements proposal 122.
27363 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
27364 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
27367 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
27368 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
27369 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
27370 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
27372 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
27373 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
27374 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
27375 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
27376 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
27377 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27378 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
27379 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
27380 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27382 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
27383 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
27385 - Allow certificates to include an address.
27386 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
27387 and download operations.
27388 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
27389 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
27390 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
27391 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
27392 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
27393 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
27395 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
27396 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
27399 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
27400 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
27401 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
27402 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
27404 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
27405 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
27406 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
27408 o Minor features (performance):
27409 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
27410 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
27411 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
27412 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
27413 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
27414 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
27415 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
27418 o Minor features (compilation):
27419 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
27420 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
27422 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
27423 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
27424 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
27425 stick around indefinitely.
27426 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
27428 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
27429 v3 directory authority.
27430 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
27431 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
27433 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
27434 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
27435 "moria on moria:9031."
27436 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
27437 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
27438 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
27439 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
27440 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
27441 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
27442 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
27443 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
27445 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
27446 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
27447 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
27448 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
27449 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
27450 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
27451 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
27452 downloads than for other types.
27454 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
27455 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
27457 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
27458 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
27459 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27461 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
27462 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
27463 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27464 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
27465 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
27466 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
27467 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
27468 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
27470 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
27471 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
27472 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
27473 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
27474 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27475 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
27476 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
27477 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27478 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
27479 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
27480 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
27482 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
27483 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
27486 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27487 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
27488 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
27489 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
27490 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
27491 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
27492 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
27493 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
27494 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
27495 so that they all take the same named flags.
27498 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
27499 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
27500 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
27503 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
27504 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
27505 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
27506 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
27507 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
27508 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
27510 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
27511 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
27512 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
27513 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
27514 annotations along with descriptors.
27515 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
27516 source, and its purpose.
27517 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
27519 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
27520 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
27521 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
27522 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
27525 o Major features (directory authorities):
27526 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
27528 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
27529 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
27530 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
27531 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
27532 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
27533 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
27535 o Major features (v3 directory system):
27536 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
27537 and download the descriptors listed in them.
27538 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
27539 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
27540 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
27542 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
27543 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
27544 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
27545 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
27548 o Major bugfixes (performance):
27549 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
27550 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
27551 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
27552 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
27554 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
27555 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
27556 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
27557 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
27558 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
27559 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
27561 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
27562 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
27564 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
27565 certificate is requested.
27566 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
27567 certificate requests.
27569 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
27570 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
27571 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
27572 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
27575 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
27576 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
27577 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
27578 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27580 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
27581 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
27583 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
27584 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
27585 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27586 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
27587 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
27588 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
27589 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
27590 downloads more sensible.
27591 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
27592 another when serving certificates.
27594 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
27595 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
27596 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
27597 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
27599 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
27600 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27601 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
27603 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
27604 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
27606 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
27607 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
27608 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
27609 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
27610 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27612 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
27613 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
27614 WARN-severity events.
27615 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
27616 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
27617 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
27619 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
27620 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
27621 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
27623 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
27624 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
27625 circuit cannibalization).
27627 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27628 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
27629 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
27630 new module, networkstatus.c.
27631 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
27632 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
27633 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
27634 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
27635 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
27636 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
27637 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
27638 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
27639 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
27641 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
27643 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
27644 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
27647 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
27648 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
27649 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
27650 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
27652 o New directory authorities:
27653 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
27654 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
27656 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
27657 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
27658 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27660 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
27661 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
27662 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
27663 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
27664 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
27665 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
27666 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
27667 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
27668 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
27669 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
27670 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27672 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
27673 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
27674 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
27675 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
27676 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
27677 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
27678 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
27679 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
27680 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
27682 o Minor features (security):
27683 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
27684 address maps to an internal address space.
27685 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
27686 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
27688 o Minor features (guard nodes):
27689 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
27690 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
27691 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
27692 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
27694 o Minor features (speed):
27695 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
27696 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
27697 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
27698 on big-endian hosts.)
27700 o Minor features (controller):
27701 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
27702 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
27703 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
27704 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
27707 o Removed features:
27708 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
27709 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
27710 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
27711 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
27712 implementation of proposal 104.
27713 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
27714 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
27715 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
27716 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
27717 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
27718 patch from Karsten Loesing.
27719 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
27720 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
27723 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
27724 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
27725 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27726 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
27727 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27728 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
27729 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27730 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
27731 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
27732 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27733 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
27734 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
27735 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
27736 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27737 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
27738 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
27739 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
27740 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27741 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
27742 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
27744 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27745 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
27746 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
27748 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
27749 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
27750 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
27751 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
27754 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
27755 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
27756 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
27757 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
27758 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
27761 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
27762 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
27765 o Major bugfixes (security):
27766 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
27767 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
27768 become more of a headache than it's worth.
27770 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
27771 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
27772 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
27774 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
27775 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
27776 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
27777 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
27778 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
27779 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
27781 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
27782 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
27783 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
27784 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
27785 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
27787 o Minor features (controller):
27788 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
27789 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
27790 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
27791 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
27793 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
27794 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
27795 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
27796 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
27797 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
27798 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
27799 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
27800 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
27802 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
27803 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
27804 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
27805 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
27806 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
27807 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
27808 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
27809 if we ran off the end of the list.
27810 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
27811 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
27812 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
27813 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
27814 every time we change any piece of our config.
27815 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
27816 encourage people using them to stop.
27817 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
27819 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
27820 servers to choose a circuit.
27821 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
27822 unparseable piece of it.
27825 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
27826 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
27827 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
27828 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
27831 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
27832 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
27833 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
27834 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
27835 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
27837 o New directory authorities:
27838 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
27841 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
27842 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
27843 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
27844 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
27846 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
27847 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
27848 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
27850 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
27851 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
27852 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
27853 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
27854 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
27855 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
27857 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
27858 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
27859 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
27862 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
27863 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
27864 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
27865 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
27869 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
27870 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
27871 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
27872 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
27874 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
27875 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
27877 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
27878 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
27879 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
27880 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
27881 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
27882 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
27883 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27884 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
27885 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
27886 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
27889 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
27890 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
27891 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
27892 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
27893 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
27894 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
27896 o Removed features:
27897 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
27898 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
27899 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
27900 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
27903 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
27904 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
27905 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
27906 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
27907 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
27910 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
27911 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
27912 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
27913 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
27914 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
27915 reported by lodger.
27917 o Minor features (directory servers):
27918 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
27919 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
27921 o Minor features (directory voting):
27922 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
27925 o Minor features (security):
27926 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
27927 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
27928 encourage people using them to stop.
27930 o Minor features (controller):
27931 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
27932 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
27933 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
27934 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
27935 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
27936 cookie authentication file, and config option
27937 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
27939 o Minor features (unit testing):
27940 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
27941 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
27942 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
27943 logging for the unit tests.
27945 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
27946 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
27947 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
27948 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
27949 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
27950 every time we change any piece of our config.
27951 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
27952 the future. Fixes bug 434.
27953 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
27955 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
27956 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
27957 the onion key from getting rotated.
27958 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
27959 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
27960 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
27963 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
27964 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
27965 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
27967 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
27968 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
27969 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
27970 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
27973 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
27974 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
27975 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
27976 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
27977 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
27978 TorK, etc. Or worse.
27980 o Major security fixes:
27981 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
27982 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
27985 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
27986 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
27987 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
27988 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
27990 o Major security fixes:
27991 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
27992 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
27994 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
27995 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
27998 o Minor features (performance):
27999 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
28000 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
28001 performance-intensive.
28002 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
28003 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
28004 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
28005 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
28006 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
28007 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
28011 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
28012 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
28013 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
28014 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
28018 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
28019 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
28020 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
28021 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
28022 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
28024 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
28025 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
28026 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
28027 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
28029 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
28030 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
28031 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
28032 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
28033 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
28035 o Major features (experimental):
28036 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
28037 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
28038 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
28039 handling before it's ready for use.
28042 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
28043 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
28044 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
28045 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
28046 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
28047 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
28049 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
28050 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
28051 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
28052 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
28053 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
28055 o Major bugfixes (directory):
28056 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
28057 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
28059 o Minor features (controller):
28060 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
28061 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
28062 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
28063 from Robert Hogan.)
28064 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
28065 from Robert Hogan.)
28066 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
28067 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
28069 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
28070 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
28071 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
28072 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
28073 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
28074 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
28075 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
28078 o Minor features (misc):
28079 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
28081 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
28082 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
28083 the authority identity key.
28084 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
28086 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
28087 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
28088 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
28091 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
28092 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
28093 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
28094 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
28095 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
28096 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
28097 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
28098 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
28100 o Performance improvements:
28101 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
28103 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
28104 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
28107 o Deprecated and removed features:
28108 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
28109 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
28110 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
28111 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
28113 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
28114 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
28115 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
28116 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
28117 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
28118 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
28119 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
28120 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
28121 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
28124 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
28125 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
28126 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
28127 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
28128 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
28130 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
28131 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
28134 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
28135 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
28136 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
28137 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
28138 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
28139 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
28140 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
28141 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
28142 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
28145 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
28146 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
28147 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
28148 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
28150 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
28151 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
28153 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
28154 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
28155 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
28156 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
28157 routerlist while inserting a new router.
28158 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
28159 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
28161 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
28162 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
28163 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
28165 o Major bugfixes (security):
28166 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
28168 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
28169 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
28170 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
28171 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
28172 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
28173 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
28174 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
28175 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
28176 guard list unless we need to.
28178 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
28179 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
28180 don't get overused as guards.
28182 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
28183 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
28184 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
28185 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
28186 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
28188 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
28189 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
28190 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
28193 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
28194 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
28195 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
28196 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
28197 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
28198 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
28199 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
28200 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
28203 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
28204 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
28205 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
28206 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
28208 o Minor features (directory):
28209 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
28210 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
28211 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
28212 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
28214 o Minor build issues:
28215 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
28216 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
28217 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
28218 in the tarball, not as "x".
28221 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
28222 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
28223 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
28224 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
28225 forward on a lot of fronts.
28227 o Major features, server usability:
28228 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
28229 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
28230 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
28231 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
28233 o Major features, client usability:
28234 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
28235 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
28236 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
28237 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
28238 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
28239 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
28240 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
28241 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
28243 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
28244 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
28245 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
28246 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
28247 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
28248 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
28250 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
28251 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
28252 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
28254 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
28255 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
28256 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
28257 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
28258 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
28260 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
28261 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
28262 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
28263 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
28265 o Major features, other:
28266 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
28267 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
28268 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
28269 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
28270 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
28273 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
28274 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
28275 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
28278 o Minor fixes (resource management):
28279 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
28280 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
28281 our allocated connection limit.
28282 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
28283 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
28284 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
28285 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
28286 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
28288 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
28289 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
28290 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
28292 o Minor features (build):
28293 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
28294 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
28295 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
28296 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
28298 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
28299 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
28300 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
28301 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
28302 Use this version consistently in log messages.
28304 o Minor features (logging):
28305 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
28306 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
28307 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
28308 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
28309 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
28312 o Minor features (directory system):
28313 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
28314 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
28315 not to serve V2 directory information.
28316 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
28317 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
28318 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
28320 o Minor features (controller):
28321 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
28322 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
28324 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
28325 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
28326 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
28327 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
28328 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
28329 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
28331 o Minor features (hidden services):
28332 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
28333 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
28334 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
28335 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
28337 o Minor features (other):
28339 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
28340 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
28341 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
28342 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
28343 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
28344 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
28345 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
28346 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
28347 longer a completely silly thing to do.
28348 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
28349 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
28350 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
28351 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
28353 o Removed features:
28354 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
28355 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
28356 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
28357 back an error and close the connection.
28358 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
28359 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
28362 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
28363 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
28364 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
28365 makes the log messages nicer.
28366 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
28367 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
28368 partial results on small file reads.
28370 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
28371 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
28372 more often than they are allowed to appear.
28373 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
28374 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
28376 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
28377 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
28378 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
28379 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
28381 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28382 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
28383 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
28384 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
28385 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
28386 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
28387 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
28388 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
28389 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
28390 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
28391 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
28393 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
28394 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
28395 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
28397 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
28398 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
28399 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
28400 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
28402 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
28403 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
28404 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
28406 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
28407 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
28410 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28411 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
28412 implicit in other procedure arguments.
28413 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
28414 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
28415 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
28416 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
28417 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
28418 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
28419 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
28420 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
28421 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
28424 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
28425 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
28426 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
28427 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
28429 o Directory authority changes:
28430 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
28431 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
28432 or use hidden services.
28434 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
28435 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
28436 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
28437 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
28438 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
28439 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
28440 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
28441 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
28442 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
28445 o Major bugfixes (security):
28446 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
28447 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
28448 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
28450 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
28451 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
28452 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
28453 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
28454 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
28455 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
28456 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
28457 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
28458 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
28459 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
28462 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
28463 purpose=controller.
28464 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
28465 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
28467 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
28468 having a hard time downloading.
28469 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
28470 partial results on small file reads.
28471 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
28472 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
28473 the gaps in the store get very large.
28476 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
28477 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
28479 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
28480 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
28483 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
28484 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
28485 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
28486 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
28487 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
28488 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
28490 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
28491 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
28492 free speech on the Internet.
28495 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
28496 get one we don't recognize.
28497 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
28498 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
28501 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
28503 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
28504 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
28505 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
28506 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
28509 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
28510 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
28513 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
28514 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
28515 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
28516 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
28517 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
28518 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
28519 ask for GUARDS too.
28522 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
28523 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
28524 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
28525 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
28526 on Win98 and friends again.
28528 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28529 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
28530 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
28533 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
28534 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
28535 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
28536 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
28537 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
28538 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
28539 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
28540 and maybe also bug 397.)
28542 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
28543 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
28544 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
28546 o Minor bugfixes (server):
28547 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
28550 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
28551 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
28552 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
28553 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
28554 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
28556 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
28557 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
28558 load on authorities.
28560 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28561 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
28562 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
28563 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
28565 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
28567 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
28568 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
28569 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
28570 the last of bug 326.)
28571 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
28572 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
28576 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
28577 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
28578 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
28579 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
28580 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
28581 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
28582 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
28584 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
28585 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
28587 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
28588 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
28589 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
28591 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
28592 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
28593 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
28595 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
28596 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
28597 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
28598 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
28600 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
28601 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
28603 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
28604 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
28605 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
28608 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28609 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
28610 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
28611 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
28612 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
28613 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
28614 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
28615 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
28616 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
28617 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
28618 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
28619 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
28620 other than file-not-found.
28621 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
28622 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
28623 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
28624 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
28625 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
28626 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
28627 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
28628 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
28629 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
28630 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
28631 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
28632 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
28633 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
28634 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
28635 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
28637 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
28639 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
28640 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
28642 o Minor features (controller):
28643 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
28644 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
28645 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
28647 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
28648 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
28649 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
28650 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
28651 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
28652 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
28653 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
28654 connected or resolved cell.
28656 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
28657 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
28658 some profiles, but not others.)
28659 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
28660 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
28661 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
28664 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
28666 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
28667 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
28668 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
28669 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
28670 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
28671 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
28672 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
28673 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
28674 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
28675 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
28676 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
28677 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
28678 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
28679 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
28680 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
28682 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
28685 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
28686 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
28687 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
28688 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
28689 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
28690 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
28691 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
28693 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
28694 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
28695 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
28696 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
28697 buckets go absurdly negative.
28698 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
28699 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
28702 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
28703 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
28704 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
28705 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
28706 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
28707 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
28708 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
28709 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
28712 o Major bugfixes (other):
28713 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
28714 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
28715 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
28716 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
28718 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
28720 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
28721 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
28723 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
28724 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
28725 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
28726 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
28727 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
28728 to wait for 0.2.0.)
28730 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
28731 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
28732 possible memory-stomping bugs.
28733 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
28734 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
28736 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
28737 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
28738 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
28739 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
28740 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
28741 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
28743 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28744 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
28745 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
28746 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
28748 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
28749 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
28750 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
28751 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
28752 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
28753 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
28754 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
28755 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
28756 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
28757 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
28758 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
28759 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
28760 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
28762 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
28763 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
28764 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
28765 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
28766 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
28767 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
28768 to the resulting address.
28771 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
28772 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
28773 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
28774 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
28777 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
28778 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
28780 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
28781 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
28782 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
28783 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
28784 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
28785 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
28786 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
28787 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
28788 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
28789 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
28790 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
28791 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
28792 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
28793 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
28794 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
28795 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
28796 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
28799 o Minor features (controller):
28800 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
28801 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
28802 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
28803 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
28804 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
28805 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
28806 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
28810 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
28812 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
28813 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
28814 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
28815 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
28816 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
28817 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
28820 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
28821 weren't planning to resolve.
28822 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
28823 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
28824 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
28825 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
28826 the controller from learning about current events.
28828 o Minor features (more controller status events):
28829 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
28830 learn when our address changes.
28831 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
28832 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
28833 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
28834 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
28836 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
28837 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
28838 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
28839 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
28840 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
28841 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
28842 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
28843 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
28844 are accepted by a directory.
28845 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
28846 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
28847 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
28848 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
28849 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
28851 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
28852 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
28853 about changes to DNS server status.
28855 o Minor features (directory):
28856 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
28857 too much load to the exit nodes.
28860 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
28862 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
28863 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
28864 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
28865 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
28866 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
28868 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
28869 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
28870 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
28872 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
28873 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
28874 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
28875 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
28876 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
28877 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
28878 config options if you like.
28880 o Minor features (config and docs):
28881 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
28882 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
28883 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
28884 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
28885 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
28887 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
28888 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
28889 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
28890 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
28891 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
28893 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
28894 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
28895 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
28896 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
28897 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
28898 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
28899 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
28900 documentation: "make check-docs".
28901 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
28902 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
28904 o Minor features (DNS):
28905 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
28906 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
28907 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
28908 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
28909 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
28910 our tests for DNS hijacking.
28912 o Minor features (directory):
28913 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
28914 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
28915 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
28916 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
28917 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
28918 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
28919 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
28920 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
28921 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
28922 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
28923 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
28924 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
28925 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
28926 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
28927 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
28928 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
28929 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
28930 for the thing we're trying to download.
28931 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
28932 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
28933 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
28935 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
28936 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
28937 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
28940 o Minor features (controller):
28941 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
28942 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
28944 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
28945 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
28946 entry guard status as it changes.
28948 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
28949 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
28950 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
28951 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
28952 to set log options.
28953 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
28954 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
28955 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
28956 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
28959 o Major bugfixes (security):
28960 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
28961 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
28962 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
28963 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
28965 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
28966 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
28967 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
28968 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
28969 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
28971 o Major bugfixes (other):
28972 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
28973 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
28974 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
28975 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
28977 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
28978 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
28979 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
28980 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
28981 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
28982 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
28986 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
28987 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
28988 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
28989 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
28990 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
28992 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
28993 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
28995 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
28996 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
28997 family lists conveniently.
28998 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
28999 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
29000 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
29002 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
29003 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
29005 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
29006 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
29007 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
29008 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
29009 if their identity keys are as expected.
29010 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
29011 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
29012 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
29014 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
29015 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
29016 reported by Mike Perry.
29017 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
29018 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
29019 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
29020 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
29023 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
29024 o Security bugfixes:
29025 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
29026 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
29027 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
29028 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
29032 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
29033 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
29034 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
29037 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
29039 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
29040 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
29041 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
29044 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
29045 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
29046 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
29047 watching for STREAM events.
29048 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
29049 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
29050 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
29051 operations, for profiling.
29054 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
29055 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
29056 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
29057 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
29058 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
29059 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
29061 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
29065 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
29066 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
29067 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
29068 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
29069 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
29071 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
29072 correctly in the Windows installer.
29073 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
29074 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
29075 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
29076 MIPSpro C compiler.
29077 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
29078 when we're running as a client.
29081 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
29083 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
29084 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
29085 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
29086 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
29087 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
29088 its circuits on demand.
29089 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
29090 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
29091 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
29092 connections more stable on average.
29093 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
29094 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
29095 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
29097 o Security bugfixes:
29098 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
29099 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
29102 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
29104 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
29105 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
29106 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
29107 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
29108 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
29109 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
29110 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
29111 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
29114 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
29116 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
29117 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
29118 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
29119 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
29120 routers for even longer.
29121 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
29122 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
29123 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
29124 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
29125 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
29126 caching HTTP proxies.
29127 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
29130 o Minor features, controller:
29131 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
29132 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
29133 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
29134 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
29136 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
29137 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
29138 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
29139 working much like those for circuit events.
29140 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
29141 about the current status of a router.
29142 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
29143 a router's status has changed.
29144 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
29145 can tell which events and features are supported.
29146 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
29147 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
29149 o Security bugfixes:
29150 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
29151 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
29154 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
29155 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
29156 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
29157 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
29158 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
29159 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
29160 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
29161 long nicknames where appropriate.
29162 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
29163 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
29164 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
29165 chews through many circuits before giving up.
29166 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
29167 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
29168 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
29169 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
29170 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
29171 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
29173 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
29174 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
29175 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
29177 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
29178 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
29179 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
29180 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
29181 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
29182 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
29183 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
29184 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
29185 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
29186 (reported by fookoowa).
29187 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
29188 and reported by some Centos users.
29189 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
29190 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
29191 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
29192 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
29193 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
29194 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
29195 before we check for libevent.
29198 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
29200 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
29201 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
29202 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
29203 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
29204 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
29205 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
29206 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
29207 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
29208 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
29209 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
29210 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
29211 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
29212 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
29213 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
29214 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
29215 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
29216 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
29217 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
29218 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
29219 lets you turn it off.
29220 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
29221 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
29222 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
29223 us into the directory more quickly.
29225 o New/improved config options:
29226 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
29227 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
29228 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
29229 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
29230 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
29231 all the machines on the same subnet.
29232 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
29233 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
29234 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
29235 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
29236 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
29237 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
29238 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
29239 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
29240 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
29241 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
29243 o Minor features, controller:
29244 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
29245 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
29246 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
29247 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
29248 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
29249 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
29250 for more information.
29251 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
29252 best guess to the user.
29253 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
29254 descriptor has changed.
29255 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
29257 o Minor features, other:
29258 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
29259 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
29260 useful to the network.
29261 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
29262 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
29263 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
29264 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
29265 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
29266 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
29267 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
29268 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
29269 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
29270 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
29271 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
29272 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
29273 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
29274 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
29275 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
29277 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
29278 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
29279 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
29280 could return an unnamed server instead.
29281 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
29282 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
29283 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
29284 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
29285 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
29286 a more attractive target for compromise.)
29287 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
29288 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
29289 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
29291 o Major bugfixes, other:
29292 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
29293 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
29294 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
29295 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
29296 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
29297 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
29298 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
29299 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
29300 its circuits on demand.
29301 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
29302 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
29303 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
29304 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
29306 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
29307 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
29308 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
29309 we don't recognize.
29310 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
29312 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
29313 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
29314 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
29315 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
29316 "extendcircuit" request.
29317 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
29318 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
29319 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
29321 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
29322 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
29323 instead of "X resolved to X".
29324 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
29325 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
29326 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
29327 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
29328 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
29329 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
29330 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
29331 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
29332 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
29334 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
29335 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
29336 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
29337 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
29338 result more than once.
29339 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
29340 non-versioning dirservers.
29341 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
29342 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
29344 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
29345 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
29346 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
29347 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
29348 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
29349 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
29350 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
29351 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
29352 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
29354 o Packaging, features:
29355 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
29356 now universal binaries.
29357 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
29358 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
29359 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
29361 o Packaging, bugfixes:
29362 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
29363 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
29364 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
29365 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
29367 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
29368 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
29369 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
29372 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
29373 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
29374 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
29378 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
29380 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
29381 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
29382 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
29383 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
29384 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
29385 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
29386 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
29387 it can't resolve its hostname.
29390 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
29391 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
29392 "extendcircuit" request.
29393 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
29394 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
29395 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
29396 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
29398 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
29399 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
29400 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
29402 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
29403 methods: these are known to be buggy.
29404 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
29405 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
29406 we don't recognize.
29409 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
29411 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
29412 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
29413 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
29414 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
29415 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
29416 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
29417 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
29418 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
29419 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
29420 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
29421 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
29422 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
29423 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
29424 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
29425 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
29426 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
29427 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
29428 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
29429 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
29430 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
29431 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
29432 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
29433 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
29434 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
29437 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
29438 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
29439 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
29440 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
29441 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
29442 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
29443 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
29444 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
29445 recommendation system saner.)
29446 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
29448 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
29449 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
29450 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
29451 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
29452 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
29453 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
29454 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
29455 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
29456 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
29457 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
29458 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
29459 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
29460 your ORPort is set.
29461 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
29462 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
29463 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
29464 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
29465 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
29466 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
29467 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
29468 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
29469 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
29470 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
29471 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
29472 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
29474 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
29475 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
29476 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
29477 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
29478 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
29479 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
29482 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
29483 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
29484 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
29485 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
29486 our DirPort now, etc.
29487 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
29488 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
29489 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
29490 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
29491 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
29492 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
29493 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
29495 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
29496 whether the config options are bad or good.
29497 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
29498 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
29499 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
29500 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
29501 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
29502 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
29503 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
29504 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
29507 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
29508 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
29509 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
29510 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
29511 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
29512 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
29513 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
29514 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
29515 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
29516 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
29517 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
29518 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
29519 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
29520 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
29521 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
29522 of it), is not therefore "up".
29523 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
29524 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
29525 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
29526 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
29527 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
29528 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
29531 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
29533 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
29534 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
29535 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
29536 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
29537 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
29538 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
29539 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
29540 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
29541 test reachability, so you won't publish.
29544 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
29545 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
29546 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
29547 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
29548 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
29550 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
29551 own server descriptor yet.
29554 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
29556 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
29557 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
29558 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
29559 make sure to test via one of these.
29560 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
29561 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
29562 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
29563 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
29564 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
29566 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
29567 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
29568 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
29571 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
29572 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
29573 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
29574 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
29575 directory authority.
29576 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
29577 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
29578 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
29579 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
29582 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
29583 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
29584 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
29586 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
29587 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
29588 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
29589 current guards when picking a new guard.
29590 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
29591 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
29592 when we had more than one pending.
29593 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
29594 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
29595 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
29596 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
29597 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
29598 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
29599 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
29600 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
29601 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
29602 debug the reachability problems better.
29604 o Log / documentation fixes:
29605 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
29606 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
29607 about protocol violations by others.
29608 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
29609 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
29610 about what happened to our old torrc.
29613 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
29615 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
29617 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
29618 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
29619 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
29620 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
29623 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
29625 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
29626 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
29627 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
29628 old ORPort and receive connections.
29629 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
29631 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
29632 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
29633 and network-statuses.
29634 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
29635 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
29636 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
29637 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
29639 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
29642 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
29643 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
29644 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
29647 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
29649 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
29650 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
29651 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
29652 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
29653 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
29656 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
29657 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
29659 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
29660 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
29661 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
29662 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
29663 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
29664 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
29665 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
29666 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
29667 rather than not sending anything back at all.
29668 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
29669 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
29670 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
29671 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
29672 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
29673 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
29674 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
29675 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
29676 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
29677 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
29678 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
29679 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
29680 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
29681 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
29682 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
29683 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
29684 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
29685 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
29686 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
29687 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
29688 default ulimit -n is 1024.
29691 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
29692 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
29693 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
29694 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
29697 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
29699 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
29700 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
29701 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
29702 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
29703 entry guards running these flawed versions.
29704 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
29705 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
29706 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
29707 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
29708 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
29711 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
29712 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
29714 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
29715 and it is confusing some users.
29716 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
29717 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
29718 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
29719 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
29720 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
29723 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
29725 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
29726 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
29727 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
29728 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
29729 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
29730 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
29731 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
29732 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
29733 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
29734 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
29735 dirport is set for now.
29737 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
29738 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
29739 unattached before we fail it?
29740 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
29741 at least this many seconds ago.
29742 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
29743 at least this many seconds ago.
29746 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
29747 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
29748 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
29749 or resolve-wait stream.
29750 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
29751 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
29752 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
29753 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
29754 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
29755 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
29756 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
29757 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
29759 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
29760 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
29761 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
29762 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
29763 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
29764 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
29765 given as hex digests.
29766 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
29767 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
29768 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
29769 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
29770 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
29771 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
29772 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
29773 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
29776 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29777 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
29778 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
29779 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
29780 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
29781 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
29782 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
29783 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
29784 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
29785 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
29786 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
29789 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
29790 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
29791 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
29792 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
29793 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
29794 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
29795 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
29798 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
29799 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
29800 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
29801 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
29802 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
29803 misreading their logs.
29804 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
29805 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
29806 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
29807 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
29808 valid router descriptors.
29809 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
29810 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
29811 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
29812 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
29813 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
29814 silently resetting it to its default.
29815 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
29817 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
29820 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
29821 use clean circuits.
29822 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
29823 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
29824 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
29825 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
29826 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
29828 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
29829 because older Tors do not understand it.
29830 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
29834 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
29835 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
29836 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
29837 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
29838 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
29839 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
29840 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
29841 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
29842 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
29843 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
29844 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
29846 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
29847 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
29848 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
29849 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
29851 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
29852 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
29855 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
29856 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
29857 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
29858 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
29859 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
29860 without getting overloaded.
29861 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
29863 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
29864 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
29865 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
29866 be forward-compatible.
29867 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
29868 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
29869 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
29870 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
29872 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
29873 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
29874 and OR conns to port 443.
29875 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
29876 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
29878 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
29879 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
29880 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
29881 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
29882 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
29883 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
29884 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
29887 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
29888 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
29889 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
29890 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
29892 o Other important bugfixes:
29893 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
29894 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
29895 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
29896 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
29898 o Backported features:
29899 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
29900 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
29901 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
29902 without getting overloaded.
29903 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
29904 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
29905 503's whenever they feel busy.
29906 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
29907 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
29908 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
29909 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
29910 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
29913 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
29914 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
29915 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
29916 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
29917 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
29918 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
29919 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
29920 know if the crashes continue.
29921 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
29922 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
29923 seg faults in at least some cases.)
29924 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
29925 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
29926 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
29929 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
29930 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
29931 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
29932 try to be a bit more fair.
29933 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
29934 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
29935 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
29936 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
29937 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
29938 bug that let it go negative.
29939 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
29940 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
29941 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
29942 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
29943 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
29944 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
29945 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
29946 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
29947 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
29948 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
29949 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
29952 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
29954 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
29955 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
29956 service descriptors.
29959 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
29960 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
29961 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
29962 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
29964 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
29965 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
29966 versions *are* still recommended.
29967 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
29968 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
29969 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
29970 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
29971 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
29972 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
29973 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
29974 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
29976 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
29977 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
29978 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
29979 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
29980 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
29981 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
29982 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
29983 on it. Not used by clients yet.
29984 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
29985 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
29986 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
29987 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
29988 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
29989 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
29990 established a circuit.
29991 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
29992 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
29993 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
29994 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
29997 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
29998 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
29999 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
30000 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
30001 quickly enough. Oops.
30002 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
30004 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30005 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
30008 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
30009 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
30010 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
30011 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
30012 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
30013 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
30014 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
30015 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
30016 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
30017 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
30018 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
30019 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
30020 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
30021 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
30022 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
30023 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
30024 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
30027 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
30028 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
30029 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
30030 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
30031 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
30032 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
30033 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
30034 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
30035 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
30036 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
30037 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
30038 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
30039 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
30040 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
30041 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
30042 connections more reliable.
30045 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
30046 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
30047 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
30048 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
30049 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
30050 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
30051 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
30052 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
30053 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
30054 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
30055 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
30056 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
30057 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
30058 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
30062 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
30063 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
30064 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
30065 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
30066 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
30067 need to be uint64_t's.
30068 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
30069 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
30070 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
30072 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
30074 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
30075 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
30076 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
30077 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
30078 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
30079 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
30080 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
30082 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
30083 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
30084 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
30085 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
30086 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
30087 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
30088 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
30089 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
30090 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
30091 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
30092 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
30093 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
30094 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
30097 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
30098 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
30099 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
30100 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
30101 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
30102 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
30103 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
30105 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
30106 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
30107 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
30108 can answer v2 directory requests too.
30109 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
30110 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
30111 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
30112 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
30114 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
30115 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
30116 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
30117 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
30118 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
30119 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
30120 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
30121 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
30122 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
30123 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
30124 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
30125 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
30126 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
30127 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
30128 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
30130 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
30131 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
30134 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
30135 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30136 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
30137 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
30138 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
30139 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
30140 too -- so detect and avoid this.
30141 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
30143 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
30144 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
30145 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
30146 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
30147 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
30148 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
30149 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
30150 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
30151 rendezvous circuits.
30152 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
30154 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30155 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
30156 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
30157 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
30158 advertising it because of hibernation.
30159 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
30160 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
30161 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
30162 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
30163 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
30164 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
30165 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
30166 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
30167 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
30168 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
30169 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
30170 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
30171 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
30172 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
30175 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
30176 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30177 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
30178 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
30179 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
30180 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
30181 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
30182 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
30183 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
30184 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
30185 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
30186 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
30187 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
30188 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
30189 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
30190 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
30191 connections once a week.
30192 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
30193 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
30194 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
30195 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
30196 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
30197 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
30199 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
30200 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
30201 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
30203 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30204 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
30205 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
30206 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
30207 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
30208 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
30209 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
30210 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
30211 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
30212 firewall options forbid.
30213 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
30214 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
30215 can only proxy to certain destinations.
30216 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
30217 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
30218 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
30219 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
30220 aids some statistical attacks.
30221 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
30222 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
30223 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
30224 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
30226 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
30227 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
30228 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
30229 server descriptor sometimes.
30230 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
30231 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
30232 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
30233 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
30234 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
30235 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
30236 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
30237 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
30239 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
30240 case the controller wants to change that too.
30241 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
30242 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
30243 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
30244 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
30246 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
30247 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
30248 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
30250 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
30251 descriptors that they know they will reject.
30253 o Features and updates:
30254 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
30255 significantly faster.
30256 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
30257 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
30258 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
30259 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
30260 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
30261 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
30262 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
30263 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
30264 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
30265 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
30266 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
30267 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
30268 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
30269 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
30270 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
30271 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
30272 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
30273 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
30274 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
30275 as authoritative dirserver.
30276 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
30277 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
30278 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
30281 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
30282 o Usability improvements:
30283 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
30284 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
30286 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
30287 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
30288 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
30290 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
30291 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
30292 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
30293 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
30294 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
30295 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
30296 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
30297 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
30298 memory leaks better.
30299 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
30300 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
30301 their operators to pay close attention.
30302 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
30303 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
30305 o Performance improvements:
30306 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
30307 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
30308 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
30309 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
30310 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
30311 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
30312 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
30313 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
30314 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
30315 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
30316 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
30317 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
30318 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
30319 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
30320 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
30321 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
30322 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
30324 o Security improvements:
30325 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
30326 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
30327 fingerprint of server.
30328 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
30329 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
30330 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
30332 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30333 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
30334 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
30335 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
30336 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
30337 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
30338 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
30339 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
30340 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
30341 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
30342 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
30343 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
30344 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
30345 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
30346 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
30347 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
30348 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
30349 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
30350 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
30351 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
30352 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
30354 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
30355 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
30356 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
30358 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
30359 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
30361 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
30362 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
30363 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
30364 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
30365 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
30366 of the controller protocol.
30367 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
30368 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
30369 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
30372 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
30373 o New features (major):
30374 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
30375 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
30376 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
30377 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
30378 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
30379 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
30380 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
30381 we're using a default DirPort.
30382 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
30384 o New features (minor):
30385 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
30386 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
30387 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
30388 mirrors still cache and serve it).
30389 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
30390 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
30391 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
30392 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
30393 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
30394 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
30395 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
30396 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
30397 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
30398 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
30399 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
30400 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
30401 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
30402 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
30403 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
30405 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
30406 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
30407 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
30408 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
30409 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
30410 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
30411 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
30412 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
30414 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
30415 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
30416 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
30417 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
30418 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
30419 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
30420 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
30421 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
30422 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
30423 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
30425 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
30426 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
30427 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
30428 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
30429 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
30431 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
30432 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
30433 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
30435 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
30436 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
30438 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
30439 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
30440 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
30441 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
30442 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
30443 don't warn twice about the same name.
30444 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
30445 if we've not heard of the server.
30446 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
30447 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
30450 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
30451 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30452 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
30453 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
30454 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
30455 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
30456 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
30457 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
30458 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
30459 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
30460 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
30461 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
30462 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
30463 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
30464 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
30467 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
30468 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
30469 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
30470 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
30471 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
30473 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
30474 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
30475 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
30476 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
30477 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
30478 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
30482 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
30483 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
30484 nickname) is reachable by you.
30485 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
30488 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
30489 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
30490 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
30491 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
30492 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
30493 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
30494 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
30495 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
30496 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
30497 we fail to connect).
30498 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
30499 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
30500 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
30501 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
30503 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
30504 it was self-testing that told us so.
30507 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
30508 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
30509 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
30510 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
30511 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
30512 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
30513 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
30514 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
30515 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
30516 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
30517 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
30518 exit policy using him for any exits.
30519 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
30522 o New controller features/fixes:
30523 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
30524 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
30525 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
30526 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
30527 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
30528 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
30529 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
30530 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
30531 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
30533 o Start on the new directory design:
30534 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
30535 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
30537 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
30538 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
30539 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
30540 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
30542 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
30543 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
30544 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
30545 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
30546 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
30547 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
30548 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
30549 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
30552 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
30553 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
30554 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
30555 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
30556 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
30557 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
30558 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
30559 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
30560 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
30561 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
30563 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
30564 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
30565 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
30566 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
30567 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
30568 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
30569 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
30570 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
30571 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
30573 o Config option changes:
30574 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
30575 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
30576 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
30577 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
30578 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
30579 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
30581 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
30582 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
30583 people have started using them for spam too.
30584 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
30585 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
30586 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
30587 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
30588 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
30589 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
30590 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
30591 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
30592 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
30593 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
30594 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
30595 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
30596 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
30597 services faster on the service end.
30598 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
30599 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
30600 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
30601 it a fair shake next time we try.
30602 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
30603 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
30604 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
30605 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
30606 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
30607 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
30608 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
30609 able to discover them.
30610 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
30611 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
30612 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
30613 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
30614 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
30615 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
30616 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
30617 testing for reachability.
30618 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
30619 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
30621 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
30623 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
30624 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
30627 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
30628 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
30630 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30631 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
30632 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
30633 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
30636 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
30637 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30638 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
30640 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
30641 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
30644 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
30645 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
30648 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
30649 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
30650 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
30651 options, getinfo keys.
30654 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
30655 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30656 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
30657 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
30658 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
30659 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
30660 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
30662 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
30663 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
30667 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
30668 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
30669 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
30671 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
30673 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
30674 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
30675 circuit events and we go offline.
30676 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
30677 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
30678 you don't have enough intro points already.
30680 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
30681 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
30682 many bytes we've used in this time period.
30683 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
30684 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
30685 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
30686 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
30687 enabled by default yet.
30689 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
30690 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
30691 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
30692 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
30693 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
30696 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
30697 o New directory servers:
30698 - tor26 has changed IP address.
30700 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30701 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
30702 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
30703 pthreads libraries.
30704 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
30705 claims its dirport is 0.
30706 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
30707 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
30711 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
30712 o New directory servers:
30713 - tor26 has changed IP address.
30715 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
30716 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
30718 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
30719 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
30720 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
30721 ports that have changed.
30722 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
30724 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
30725 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
30726 Windows-style errno back.
30727 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
30729 want to make it an NT service.
30730 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
30731 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
30732 name, give the full name in our response.
30733 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
30734 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
30735 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
30736 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
30737 pthreads libraries.
30739 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
30740 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
30744 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
30745 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
30746 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
30747 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
30748 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
30751 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
30752 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
30753 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
30754 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
30755 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
30756 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
30757 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
30758 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
30761 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
30763 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
30764 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
30765 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
30766 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
30767 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
30768 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
30770 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
30771 temporarily unreachable.
30772 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
30776 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
30777 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
30778 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
30779 our protocol works.
30780 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
30784 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
30785 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
30786 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
30787 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
30788 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
30792 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
30793 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
30794 libevent before 1.1a.
30797 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
30799 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
30800 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
30801 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
30802 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
30803 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
30805 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
30806 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
30807 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
30808 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
30809 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
30810 of CPU time plus memory.
30811 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
30812 normal web requests.
30813 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
30814 tor_lookup_hostname().
30815 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
30816 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
30817 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
30818 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
30819 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
30820 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
30822 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
30823 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
30824 HttpProxyAuthenticator
30825 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
30826 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
30827 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
30829 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
30830 the user asks you to.
30831 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
30832 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
30833 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
30834 their descriptors are being rejected.
30835 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
30839 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
30841 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
30842 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
30843 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
30845 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
30847 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
30849 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
30850 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
30851 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
30852 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
30853 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
30854 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
30855 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
30856 keys) from the exit server's process.
30857 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
30858 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
30859 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
30860 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
30861 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
30862 point at your Tor server.
30863 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
30864 you're not sending a socks reply back.
30867 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
30868 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
30869 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
30870 to make it easier to write controllers.
30873 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
30875 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
30876 installing on Tiger.
30877 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
30878 complain during installation.
30879 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
30880 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
30881 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
30882 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
30883 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
30884 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
30886 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
30887 something more reasonable when first installing.
30888 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
30891 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
30893 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
30894 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
30896 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
30897 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
30898 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
30899 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
30900 when using the default exit policy.
30901 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
30902 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
30903 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
30904 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
30905 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
30906 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
30907 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
30908 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
30909 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
30910 we fetched a new directory.
30911 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
30912 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
30915 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
30916 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
30917 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
30918 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
30919 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
30920 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
30921 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
30922 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
30924 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
30925 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
30926 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
30927 save memory on systems that need to fork.
30928 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
30929 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
30930 is valid without actually launching Tor.
30931 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
30932 rather than just rejecting it.
30935 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
30937 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
30938 we didn't like its cert.
30940 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
30941 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
30942 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
30943 on patch from Adam Langley.
30944 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
30945 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
30946 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
30947 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
30949 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
30950 directory every time you regenerate it.
30951 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
30952 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
30955 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
30956 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
30957 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
30958 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
30959 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
30962 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
30964 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
30965 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
30966 TLS errors better in other situations too.
30967 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
30968 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
30969 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
30970 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
30971 and don't log when you are.
30972 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
30973 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
30975 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
30976 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
30977 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
30978 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
30979 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
30982 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
30983 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
30984 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
30985 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
30986 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
30987 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
30988 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
30989 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
30990 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
30991 nickname+key are allowed.
30992 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
30993 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
30994 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
30995 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
30996 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
30997 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
30998 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
30999 have quite wrong clocks).
31000 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
31001 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
31002 - Efficiency improvements:
31003 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
31004 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
31005 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
31006 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
31007 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
31008 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
31009 lowercase and be done with it.
31010 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
31011 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
31012 to abandon partially built circuits.
31013 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
31014 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
31016 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
31018 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
31019 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
31020 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
31021 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
31023 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
31024 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
31026 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
31027 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
31028 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
31029 obeying the exit policy internally.
31030 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
31031 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
31033 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
31034 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
31035 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
31036 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
31038 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
31039 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
31040 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
31041 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
31042 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
31044 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
31045 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
31046 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
31047 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
31048 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
31049 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
31050 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
31051 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
31052 descriptors we just dropped.
31053 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
31054 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
31055 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
31056 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
31057 artificially capped at 500kB.
31060 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
31061 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
31062 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
31063 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
31064 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
31065 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
31066 busy for more than 100 seconds.
31069 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
31070 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
31071 - Fixes on reachability detection:
31072 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
31073 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
31074 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
31075 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
31076 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
31077 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
31078 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
31079 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
31080 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
31081 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
31082 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
31083 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
31084 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
31085 server not already connected to them.
31086 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
31087 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
31088 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
31090 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
31092 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
31093 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
31094 are in a different state than they actually are.
31095 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
31096 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
31097 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
31099 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
31100 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
31101 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
31103 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
31104 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
31105 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
31106 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
31107 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
31108 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
31109 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
31111 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
31112 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
31113 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
31114 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
31117 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
31118 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
31119 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
31120 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
31121 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
31122 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
31123 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
31124 creating actual system users.
31125 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
31126 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
31130 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
31132 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
31133 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
31134 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
31135 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
31136 hidden services better.
31137 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
31139 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
31140 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
31141 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
31142 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
31143 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
31144 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
31145 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
31146 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
31147 patch by Matt Edman).
31148 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
31149 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
31150 required exit node for certain sites.
31151 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
31152 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
31153 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
31154 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
31155 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
31156 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
31157 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
31158 rather than just "success" or "failure".
31159 - A more sane version numbering system. See
31160 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
31161 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
31162 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
31164 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
31165 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
31166 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
31167 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
31168 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
31169 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
31170 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
31172 o Robustness/stability fixes:
31173 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
31174 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
31175 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
31177 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
31178 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
31179 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
31181 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
31182 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
31183 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
31185 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
31186 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
31187 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
31188 that will want high uptime circuits.
31189 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
31190 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
31191 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
31192 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
31193 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
31194 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
31195 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
31196 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
31197 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
31198 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
31199 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
31200 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
31201 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
31202 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
31203 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
31204 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
31205 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
31206 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
31207 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
31208 when we try to launch one.
31209 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
31210 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
31211 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
31212 "ShutdownWaitLength".
31213 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
31214 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
31215 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
31216 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
31217 and to take errno into account where possible.
31220 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
31221 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
31222 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
31223 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
31224 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
31225 file more reasonable.
31226 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
31227 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
31228 addresses -- it won't.
31229 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
31230 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
31231 for google.com" problem.
31232 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
31233 so it's not just "unknown platform".
31234 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
31235 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
31236 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
31237 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
31239 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
31240 they could use instead.
31241 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
31242 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
31243 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
31244 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
31245 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
31246 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
31247 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
31248 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
31249 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
31251 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
31255 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
31256 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
31258 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
31259 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
31260 private-IP addresses.
31261 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
31262 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
31264 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
31265 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
31266 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
31267 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
31268 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
31269 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
31270 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
31272 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
31273 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
31274 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
31275 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
31276 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
31277 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
31278 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
31279 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
31281 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
31283 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
31284 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
31285 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
31286 whether the server is hibernating.
31289 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
31290 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
31291 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
31292 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
31293 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
31294 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
31295 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
31296 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
31297 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
31298 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
31299 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
31300 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
31301 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
31302 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
31303 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
31305 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
31306 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
31307 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
31308 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
31309 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
31310 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
31311 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
31312 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
31313 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
31314 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
31315 existing torrc files.
31316 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
31319 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
31320 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
31321 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
31322 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
31323 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
31324 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
31325 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
31326 the win32 SYSTEM account.
31327 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
31328 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
31329 file descriptors available.
31330 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
31331 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
31332 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
31335 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
31336 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
31337 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
31338 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
31340 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
31341 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
31342 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
31343 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
31344 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
31346 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
31347 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
31348 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
31349 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
31350 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
31351 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
31352 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
31353 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
31354 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
31355 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
31356 800kB/s of capacity.
31357 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
31360 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
31361 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
31362 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
31363 need as much processor time.
31364 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
31365 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
31366 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
31367 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
31368 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
31369 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
31370 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
31371 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
31372 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
31373 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
31374 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
31375 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
31377 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
31378 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
31379 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
31380 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
31381 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
31382 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
31383 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
31386 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
31387 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
31388 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
31390 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
31391 style address, then we'd crash.
31392 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
31393 a dirserver is broken.
31394 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
31396 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
31397 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
31398 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
31400 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
31401 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
31402 name out of the warning/assert messages.
31403 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
31404 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
31405 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
31407 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
31408 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
31409 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
31411 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
31413 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
31414 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
31415 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
31416 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
31417 values at once couldn't work.
31418 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
31419 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
31420 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
31421 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
31422 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
31423 they can handle any number of routers.
31424 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
31425 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
31426 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
31427 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
31428 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
31429 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
31430 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
31431 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
31432 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
31435 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
31436 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
31437 - Make hibernation actually work.
31438 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
31439 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
31440 don't use the stream status code.
31443 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
31445 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
31446 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
31448 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
31451 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
31452 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
31453 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
31454 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
31455 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
31456 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
31457 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
31458 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
31459 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
31460 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
31462 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31463 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
31464 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
31465 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
31466 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
31467 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
31468 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
31469 - Make unit tests work on win32.
31472 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
31473 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
31474 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
31476 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
31477 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
31478 than just chopping them off.
31479 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
31481 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31482 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
31483 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
31484 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
31485 right after sending the begin cell.
31486 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
31487 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
31488 exit nodes too. Oops.
31491 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
31492 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
31493 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
31494 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
31495 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
31496 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
31497 the user knows which one it's talking about.
31498 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
31499 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
31500 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
31503 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
31504 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31505 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
31506 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
31508 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
31510 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
31511 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
31512 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
31514 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
31515 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
31516 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
31517 Clip rather than rejecting.
31518 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
31519 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
31522 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
31523 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
31524 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
31525 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
31527 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
31530 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
31531 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31532 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
31533 win32 socket errors better.
31535 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
31536 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
31539 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
31540 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31541 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
31542 so we don't see those messages days later.
31544 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
31545 - Make tor-resolve work again.
31546 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
31547 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
31550 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
31551 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
31552 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
31553 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
31555 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
31556 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
31557 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
31560 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
31561 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31562 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
31563 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
31564 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
31565 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
31566 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
31567 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
31568 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
31570 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
31571 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
31572 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
31573 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
31575 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
31576 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
31579 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
31580 hibernation properties by
31581 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
31582 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
31583 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
31584 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
31585 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
31586 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
31587 get back to normal.)
31588 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
31590 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
31591 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
31592 to fill the last cell completely.
31593 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
31596 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
31597 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31598 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
31599 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
31600 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
31601 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
31602 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
31603 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
31604 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
31605 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
31606 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
31608 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
31609 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
31610 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
31611 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
31612 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
31613 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
31614 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
31615 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
31617 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
31618 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
31619 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
31620 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
31621 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
31622 have it on start-up.
31625 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
31626 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
31627 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
31628 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
31629 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
31630 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
31631 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
31632 configuration to torrc.
31633 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
31634 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
31635 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
31636 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
31637 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
31639 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
31640 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
31641 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
31642 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
31643 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
31644 log more informatively.
31645 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
31646 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
31647 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
31648 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
31649 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
31650 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
31651 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
31652 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
31653 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
31654 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
31655 from each other, to hinder linkability.
31658 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
31659 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
31660 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
31661 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
31662 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
31663 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
31664 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
31666 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
31667 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
31668 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
31669 they ran out of file descriptors.
31670 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
31671 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
31672 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
31673 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
31674 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
31675 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
31676 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
31678 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
31681 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
31682 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
31683 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
31684 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
31685 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
31686 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
31687 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
31688 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
31689 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
31690 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
31691 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
31692 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
31693 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
31694 with the control port.
31695 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
31696 use in authenticating to the control interface.
31697 - New log format in config:
31698 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
31699 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
31702 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
31703 from their dirserver.
31704 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
31706 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
31707 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
31708 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
31709 them act more like real nodes.
31710 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
31711 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
31713 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
31714 nickname to its identity key.
31715 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
31716 not on the command line.
31717 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
31718 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
31719 1024) file descriptors.
31721 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
31722 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
31724 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
31725 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
31726 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
31729 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
31730 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
31731 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
31732 exit policy, not reject *:*.
31733 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
31734 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
31735 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
31736 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
31737 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
31738 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
31739 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
31742 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
31743 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
31744 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
31745 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
31746 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
31747 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
31748 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
31751 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
31752 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
31753 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
31754 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
31755 the ones we find in directories.)
31756 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
31758 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
31759 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
31761 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
31762 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
31763 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
31765 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
31766 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
31767 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
31768 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
31770 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
31771 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
31772 any more exit policy lines.
31775 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
31776 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
31777 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
31778 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
31779 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
31780 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
31781 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
31782 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
31783 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
31784 will be able to get a directory.
31785 - Http proxy support
31786 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
31787 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
31788 be routed through this host.
31789 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
31790 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
31791 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
31792 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
31795 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
31797 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
31798 clients/servers with an open dirport.
31799 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
31800 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
31801 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
31802 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
31803 intermittent connections.
31804 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
31805 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
31807 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
31808 in reporting stats locally.
31809 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
31810 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
31811 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
31814 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
31816 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
31817 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
31820 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
31822 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
31823 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
31824 if you don't want it open.
31825 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
31826 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
31827 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
31828 intermittent connections.
31829 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
31831 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
31832 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
31833 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
31834 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
31835 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
31836 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
31837 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
31838 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
31839 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
31840 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
31841 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
31842 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
31843 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
31844 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
31845 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
31846 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
31849 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
31850 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
31851 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
31852 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
31853 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
31855 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
31857 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
31858 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
31859 specified in HTTP 1.0.
31860 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
31861 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
31862 than once per minute.
31863 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
31864 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
31867 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
31868 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
31871 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
31872 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
31873 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
31874 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
31877 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
31878 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
31880 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
31881 don't put it into the client dns cache.
31882 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
31883 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
31884 until we get our next directory.
31886 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
31887 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
31888 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
31889 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
31890 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
31891 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
31892 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
31893 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
31894 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
31895 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
31896 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
31898 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
31900 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
31901 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
31903 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
31904 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
31905 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
31907 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
31909 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
31910 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
31911 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
31912 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
31913 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
31914 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
31915 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
31916 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
31919 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
31920 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
31921 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
31922 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
31925 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
31926 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
31927 ask them to resolve the host "".
31930 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
31931 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
31932 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
31933 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
31934 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
31935 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
31936 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
31937 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
31938 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
31939 clients don't use this yet.)
31940 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
31941 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
31942 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
31943 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
31944 for pointing out this bug.)
31945 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
31946 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
31947 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
31948 kazaa, gnutella ports.
31949 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
31951 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
31952 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
31953 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
31954 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
31955 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
31956 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
31957 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
31958 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
31959 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
31960 wolf unpredictably.
31961 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
31962 that's still handshaking.
31963 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
31964 you'll choose it for your path.
31965 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
31966 end relay cell, etc.
31967 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
31968 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
31969 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
31972 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
31973 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
31975 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
31976 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
31977 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
31978 list to decide who's running or verified.
31979 - Bugfixes and features:
31980 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
31981 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
31982 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
31983 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
31984 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
31985 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
31987 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
31988 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
31989 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
31990 know you might want to get it verified.
31991 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
31994 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
31996 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
31997 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
31998 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
31999 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
32001 o Protocol changes:
32002 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
32003 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
32004 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
32005 hadn't heard of before.
32008 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
32009 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
32010 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
32011 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
32012 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
32013 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
32014 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
32015 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
32016 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
32017 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
32018 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
32019 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
32020 - Directory caching.
32021 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
32022 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
32023 directory they've pulled down.
32024 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
32025 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
32026 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
32027 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
32028 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
32029 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
32030 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
32032 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
32033 This isn't used yet.
32034 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
32035 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
32036 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
32037 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
32038 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
32039 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
32040 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
32041 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
32042 - File and name management:
32043 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
32044 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
32046 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
32047 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
32048 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
32049 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
32050 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
32051 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
32052 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
32054 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
32055 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
32056 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
32057 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
32058 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
32060 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
32061 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
32062 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
32063 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
32064 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
32065 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
32066 - New docs in the tarball:
32068 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
32071 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
32072 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
32073 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
32076 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
32077 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
32078 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
32081 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
32082 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
32085 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
32086 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
32087 - Make it build on Win32 again.
32088 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
32089 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
32093 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
32095 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
32096 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
32097 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
32098 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
32099 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
32100 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
32101 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
32102 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
32103 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
32104 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
32107 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
32110 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
32111 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
32112 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
32113 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
32115 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
32116 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
32117 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
32119 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
32120 hidden service per 15-minute period.
32121 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
32122 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
32123 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
32124 o Fixes for security bugs:
32125 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
32126 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
32127 a trusted dirserver.
32129 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
32130 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
32131 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
32132 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
32133 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
32134 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
32135 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
32136 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
32137 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
32138 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
32140 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
32141 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
32142 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
32143 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
32145 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
32146 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
32147 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
32148 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
32149 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
32150 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
32151 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
32152 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
32153 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
32154 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
32155 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
32156 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
32157 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
32160 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
32161 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
32162 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
32163 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
32166 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
32167 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
32168 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
32169 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
32170 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
32171 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
32172 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
32176 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
32177 [version bump only]
32180 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
32181 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
32182 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
32183 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
32184 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
32186 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
32189 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
32190 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
32191 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
32192 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
32193 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
32194 o Better debugging for tls errors
32195 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
32196 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
32197 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
32198 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
32199 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
32200 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
32201 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
32202 o win32's close can't close a socket.
32205 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
32206 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
32207 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
32208 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
32209 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
32210 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
32211 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
32212 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
32213 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
32214 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
32215 just close the circ.
32216 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
32217 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
32218 (this was quite rare).
32221 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
32222 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
32223 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
32224 if you decrypted them correctly.
32225 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
32226 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
32227 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
32230 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
32231 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
32232 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
32233 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
32234 a second one and it works.
32235 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
32236 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
32237 alice would just have to wait to time out.
32238 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
32239 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
32240 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
32241 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
32242 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
32243 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
32244 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
32245 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
32246 i'd still like to find the bug though.
32247 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
32249 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
32253 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
32254 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
32255 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
32256 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
32257 he retries a couple of times
32258 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
32259 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
32260 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
32261 too long (they were sticking around forever).
32262 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
32266 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
32267 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
32268 - make hup work again
32269 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
32270 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
32271 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
32272 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
32273 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
32274 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
32276 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
32277 o changes from 0.0.5:
32278 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
32279 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
32280 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
32281 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
32282 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
32284 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
32285 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
32286 in-memory directories too
32289 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
32290 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
32293 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
32295 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
32296 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
32297 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
32298 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
32301 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
32302 [version bump only]
32305 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
32306 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
32308 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
32309 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
32310 but that aren't warnings
32313 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
32314 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
32315 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
32316 the dns farm to do it.
32317 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
32318 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
32320 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
32321 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
32322 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
32325 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
32326 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
32327 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
32328 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
32329 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
32330 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
32331 expect it to have a nickname.
32332 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
32333 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
32336 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
32337 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
32341 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
32342 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
32343 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
32344 - include missing header fcntl.h
32345 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
32346 - deal with hardware word alignment
32347 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
32348 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
32349 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
32350 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
32351 by kill -USR1 currently.
32352 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
32353 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
32354 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
32357 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
32358 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
32359 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
32362 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
32364 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
32365 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
32366 - And fix a few endian issues.
32369 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
32371 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
32372 try that circuit again: try a new one.
32373 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
32374 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
32375 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
32376 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
32377 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
32378 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
32380 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
32381 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
32382 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
32384 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
32386 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
32387 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
32388 side isn't reading right then.
32389 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
32390 RecommendedVersions
32391 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
32392 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
32393 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
32396 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
32398 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
32399 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
32402 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
32406 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
32408 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
32409 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
32410 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
32411 connection is finished.
32412 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
32413 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
32414 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
32415 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
32416 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
32417 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
32418 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
32419 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
32420 rather than warn and continue.
32421 - Make --version work
32422 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
32425 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
32427 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
32428 knows it's working.
32429 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
32430 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
32432 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
32433 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
32434 so you can collect coredumps there.
32436 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
32437 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
32438 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
32439 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
32440 dns cache actually gets populated.
32441 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
32442 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
32443 end cell down it first.
32444 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
32445 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
32448 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
32450 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
32451 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
32453 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
32454 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
32455 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
32456 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
32457 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
32458 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
32460 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
32462 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
32463 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
32464 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
32465 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
32466 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
32467 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
32469 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
32470 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
32473 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
32475 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
32476 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
32477 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
32478 tor. It even has a man page.
32479 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
32480 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
32481 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
32482 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
32484 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
32486 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
32489 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
32491 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
32492 it, apt-getters. :)
32493 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
32494 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
32495 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
32496 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
32497 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
32498 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
32499 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
32500 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
32501 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
32502 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
32503 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
32505 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
32506 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
32509 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
32511 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
32512 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
32515 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
32517 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
32518 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
32519 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
32520 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
32521 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
32522 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
32523 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
32524 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
32525 logfile so you know it's working.
32526 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
32527 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
32530 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
32532 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
32533 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
32534 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
32537 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
32539 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
32540 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
32541 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
32544 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
32545 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
32546 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
32548 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
32549 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
32551 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
32552 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
32553 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
32555 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
32556 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
32560 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
32562 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
32563 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
32564 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
32567 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
32568 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
32569 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
32570 - Add port ranges to exit policies
32571 - Add a conservative default exit policy
32572 - Warn if you're running tor as root
32573 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
32574 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
32575 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
32576 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
32578 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
32581 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
32582 o Robustness and bugfixes:
32583 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
32584 really screw things up.
32585 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
32587 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
32588 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
32590 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
32591 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
32592 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
32593 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
32594 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
32595 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
32598 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
32601 - Change default loglevel to warn.
32602 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
32603 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
32605 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
32608 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
32609 o Robustness and bugfixes:
32610 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
32611 - to get ownership/permissions right
32612 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
32613 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
32614 pull down a directory again
32615 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
32616 causing server crashes
32617 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
32618 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
32619 - exit if bind() fails
32620 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
32621 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
32622 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
32623 - fix minor bias in PRNG
32624 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
32627 - Wrote the design document (woo)
32629 o Circuit building and exit policies:
32630 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
32632 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
32633 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
32634 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
32635 exists, rather than failing
32636 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
32637 which AP connections are standing by
32638 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
32639 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
32640 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
32642 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
32643 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
32646 - APPort is now called SocksPort
32647 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
32649 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
32650 hardcoded (for dirservers)
32651 - Reloads config on HUP
32652 - Usage info on -h or --help
32653 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
32656 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
32657 o General stability:
32658 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
32659 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
32660 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
32661 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
32662 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
32663 to take down the network when I approve a new router
32664 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
32667 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
32668 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
32670 o Autoconf improvements:
32671 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
32672 - Make install now works
32673 - create var/lib/tor on make install
32674 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
32675 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
32677 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
32678 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
32679 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
32680 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup