2 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable release
3 of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in
4 each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
6 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
7 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
8 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
9 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
10 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
11 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
12 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
14 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
15 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
18 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
19 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
20 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
21 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
22 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
23 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
24 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
25 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
27 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
28 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
29 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
30 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
33 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
34 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
35 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
36 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
37 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
40 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
41 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
42 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
43 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
44 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
45 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
46 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
47 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
49 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
50 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
51 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
52 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
53 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
54 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
55 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
56 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
57 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
58 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
59 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
60 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
61 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
62 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
63 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
64 security, and privacy fixes.
66 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
67 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
68 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
69 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
70 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
71 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
72 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
73 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
74 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
75 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
76 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
78 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
79 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
80 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
82 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
84 o Major features (better link encryption):
85 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
86 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
87 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
88 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
89 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
90 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
93 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
94 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
95 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
96 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
98 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
100 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
101 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
102 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
103 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
104 them to solve bug 6033.)
106 o Major features (relay performance):
107 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
108 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
109 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
110 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
111 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
112 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
113 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
114 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
115 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
116 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
117 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
118 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
119 Implements ticket 9574.
121 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
122 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
123 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
124 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
125 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
126 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
127 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
128 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
129 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
130 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
131 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
132 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
133 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
134 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
135 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
136 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
138 o Major features (use of guards):
139 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
140 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
141 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
142 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
143 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
144 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
145 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
146 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
147 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
148 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
149 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
150 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
151 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
152 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
154 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
155 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
156 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
157 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
159 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
160 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
163 o Major features (geoip database):
164 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
165 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
166 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
167 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
168 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
169 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
171 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
173 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
175 o Major features (IPv6):
176 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
177 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
178 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
179 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
180 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
181 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
182 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
183 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
184 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
185 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
186 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
187 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
188 revised in proposal 208.
189 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
190 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
191 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
193 o Major features (directory authorities):
194 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
195 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
197 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
198 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
199 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
200 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
201 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
202 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
203 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
204 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
205 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
206 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
207 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
209 o Major features (build and portability):
210 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
211 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
212 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
213 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
214 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
215 fixes by Jim Meyering.
216 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
217 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
218 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
219 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
220 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
221 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
224 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
225 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
226 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
227 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
228 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
229 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
230 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
231 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
232 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
235 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
236 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
237 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
238 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
239 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
240 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
241 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
242 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
243 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
244 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
245 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
246 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
247 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
248 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
249 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
250 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
251 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
252 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
254 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
255 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
256 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
257 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
259 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
260 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
261 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
263 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
264 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
265 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
266 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
267 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
268 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
269 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
270 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
271 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
273 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
274 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
276 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
277 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
278 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
279 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
280 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
281 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
282 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
283 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
284 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
285 last time we raised it).
286 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
287 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
288 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
290 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
291 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
292 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
293 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
294 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
295 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
296 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
297 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
298 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
299 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
300 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
301 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
302 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
304 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
305 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
306 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
307 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
308 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
309 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
310 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
311 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
312 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
313 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
314 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
315 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
316 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
318 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
319 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
320 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
321 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
322 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
323 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
324 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
325 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
326 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
328 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
329 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
330 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
331 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
332 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
333 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
334 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
335 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
336 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
337 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
338 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
339 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
340 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
341 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
342 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
343 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
344 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
347 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
348 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
349 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
350 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
352 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
353 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
354 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
355 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
357 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
358 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
359 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
360 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
361 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
362 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
365 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
366 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
367 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
368 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
369 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
370 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
371 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
373 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
374 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
375 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
376 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
378 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
379 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
380 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
381 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
382 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
383 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
384 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
385 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
387 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
388 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
389 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
391 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
392 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
393 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
395 o Internal abstraction features:
396 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
397 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
398 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
399 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
400 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
401 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
402 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
403 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
404 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
405 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
406 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
407 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
408 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
409 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
410 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
411 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
412 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
414 o New build requirements:
415 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
416 strongly recommended.
417 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
418 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
419 from a source distribution.)
421 o Minor features (protocol):
422 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
423 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
425 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
426 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
427 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
428 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
429 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
430 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
431 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
432 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
434 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
435 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
437 o Minor features (security):
438 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
439 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
440 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
441 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
442 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
443 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
444 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
445 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
446 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
448 o Minor features (control protocol):
449 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
451 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
452 Implements ticket 4971.
453 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
454 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
455 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
456 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
457 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
459 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
460 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
462 o Minor features (path selection):
463 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
464 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
465 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
466 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
467 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
468 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
469 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
470 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
471 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
472 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
473 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
474 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
475 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
476 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
478 o Minor features (hidden services):
479 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
480 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
481 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
482 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
483 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
484 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
485 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
486 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
487 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
488 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
489 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
490 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
491 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
493 o Minor features (clients):
494 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
495 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
496 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
497 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
498 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
499 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
500 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
501 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
502 the ORPort and the DirPort.
504 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
505 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
506 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
507 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
508 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
509 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
510 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
511 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
512 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
513 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
514 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
515 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
516 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
517 Implements part of proposal 222.
519 o Minor features (bridges):
520 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
521 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
523 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
524 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
525 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
526 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
527 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
528 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
529 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
530 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
531 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
532 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
533 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
535 o Minor features (relays):
536 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
537 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
539 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
540 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
541 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
542 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
543 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
544 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
545 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
546 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
547 connect to the wrong addresses.
548 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
549 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
550 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
551 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
554 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
555 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
556 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
557 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
558 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
559 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
561 o Minor features (directory authorities):
562 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
563 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
564 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
566 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
567 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
568 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
569 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
570 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
571 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
573 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
574 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
575 Implements ticket 8151.
576 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
577 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
578 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
579 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
581 o Minor features (path bias detection):
582 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
583 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
584 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
585 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
586 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
587 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
588 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
589 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
590 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
591 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
592 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
593 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
594 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
595 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
596 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
597 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
598 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
599 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
600 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
601 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
602 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
603 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
604 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
605 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
606 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
607 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
608 detection capability loss.
610 o Minor features (build):
611 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
612 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
613 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
615 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
616 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
617 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
619 o Build improvements (autotools):
620 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
621 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
622 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
624 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
625 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
626 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
627 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
629 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
630 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
631 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
632 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
633 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
634 than to perform erroneously.
635 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
637 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
638 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
639 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
641 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
642 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
643 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
644 hard-to-track-down errors.
645 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
646 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
647 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
648 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
649 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
650 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
651 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
652 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
653 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
654 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
655 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
657 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
658 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
659 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
660 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
661 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
662 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
663 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
664 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
665 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
666 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
668 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
669 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
670 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
671 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
672 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
673 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
674 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
675 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
676 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
677 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
678 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
679 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
680 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
682 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
683 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
684 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
685 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
686 or at least make it more diagnosable.
687 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
688 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
689 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
690 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
692 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
693 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
694 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
696 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
697 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
698 Resolves ticket 6758.
699 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
700 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
701 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
702 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
703 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
704 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
705 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
707 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
708 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
709 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
710 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
712 o Minor features (testing):
713 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
714 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
716 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
717 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
718 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
721 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
722 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
724 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
725 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
726 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
727 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
728 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
729 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
730 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
731 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
732 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
733 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
734 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
735 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
736 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
737 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
738 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
739 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
740 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
742 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
743 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
744 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
745 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
746 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
747 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
748 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
749 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
750 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
751 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
752 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
753 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
754 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
755 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
756 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
757 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
758 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
759 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
760 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
761 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
764 o Minor fixes (config options):
765 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
766 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
767 or we just won't work.)
768 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
769 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
770 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
771 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
772 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
773 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
774 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
775 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
776 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
777 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
778 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
779 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
780 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
781 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
782 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
783 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
784 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
785 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
786 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
788 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
789 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
790 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
792 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
793 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
794 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
797 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
798 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
799 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
800 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
801 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
802 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
803 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
804 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
805 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
806 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
807 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
808 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
809 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
810 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
811 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
812 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
815 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
816 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
817 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
818 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
819 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
820 Should help resolve bug 8235.
821 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
822 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
823 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
824 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
825 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
826 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
827 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
828 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
829 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
830 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
831 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
833 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
834 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
835 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
836 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
837 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
838 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
839 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
840 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
842 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
843 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
844 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
845 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
847 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
848 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
849 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
850 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
851 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
853 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
854 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
855 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
856 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
857 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
858 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
860 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
861 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
862 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
863 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
864 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
865 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
866 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
867 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
868 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
870 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
871 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
872 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
873 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
874 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
875 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
876 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
877 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
878 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
879 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
880 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
881 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
883 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
884 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
886 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
887 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
888 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
889 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
891 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
892 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
894 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
895 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
896 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
897 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
898 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
899 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
900 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
901 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
902 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
903 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
904 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
905 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
906 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
907 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
908 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
909 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
910 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
911 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
913 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
914 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
915 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
916 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
917 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
918 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
919 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
920 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
921 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
922 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
923 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
924 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
925 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
928 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
929 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
930 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
931 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
932 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
934 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
935 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
936 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
937 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
938 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
939 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
940 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
941 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
942 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
945 o Minor bugfixes (build):
946 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
947 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
948 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
950 o Documentation fixes:
951 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
952 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
953 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
954 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
955 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
956 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
957 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
959 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
960 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
961 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
962 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
963 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
964 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
965 message is logged at notice, not at info.
966 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
967 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
968 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
969 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
970 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
971 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
974 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
975 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
976 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
978 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
979 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
980 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
981 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
982 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
986 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
987 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
989 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
990 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
992 o Code simplification:
993 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
994 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
995 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
996 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
998 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
999 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
1001 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
1002 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
1003 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
1004 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
1005 present the same extensions.)
1006 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
1008 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
1009 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
1010 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
1011 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
1013 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
1014 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
1015 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
1016 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
1019 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
1021 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
1022 and the different handshakes it supports.
1023 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
1024 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
1025 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
1026 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
1028 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
1029 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
1030 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
1031 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
1032 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
1033 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
1034 testable, and a little less fragile too.
1035 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
1036 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
1037 Implements ticket 5529.
1038 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
1039 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
1040 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
1043 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
1044 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
1045 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
1046 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
1047 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
1048 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1049 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
1050 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
1051 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
1052 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
1053 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
1054 any encoding is overkill.
1055 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
1056 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1057 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
1058 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
1059 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
1060 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
1061 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
1062 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
1063 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
1066 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
1067 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
1068 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
1069 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
1070 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
1071 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
1072 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
1073 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
1075 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
1076 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
1077 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
1078 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
1079 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
1080 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
1081 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
1082 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
1083 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
1084 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
1085 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
1087 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
1088 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
1089 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
1090 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
1091 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
1092 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
1093 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
1094 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
1095 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
1096 describes microdescriptors.
1098 o Major features (build hardening):
1099 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
1101 o Major features (relay scaling):
1102 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
1103 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
1104 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
1105 much faster than other AES implementations.
1106 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
1107 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
1108 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
1109 Resolves ticket 4526.
1110 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
1111 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
1113 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
1114 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
1115 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
1116 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
1118 o Major features (blocking resistance):
1119 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
1121 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
1122 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
1123 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
1124 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
1125 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
1126 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
1127 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
1128 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
1129 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
1130 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
1131 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
1132 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
1133 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
1134 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
1135 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
1136 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
1137 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
1138 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
1139 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
1141 o Major features (pluggable transports):
1142 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
1143 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
1144 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
1145 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
1147 o Major features (DoS resistance):
1148 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
1149 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
1150 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
1151 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
1152 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
1153 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
1154 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
1155 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
1156 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
1157 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
1158 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
1160 o Major features (hidden services):
1161 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
1162 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
1163 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
1165 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
1166 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
1167 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
1168 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
1169 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
1170 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
1172 o Major features (IPv6):
1173 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
1174 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
1175 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
1176 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
1177 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
1179 o Major features (directory authorities):
1180 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
1181 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
1182 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
1183 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
1184 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
1185 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
1186 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
1187 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
1188 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
1189 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
1191 o Major features (performance):
1192 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
1193 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
1194 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
1195 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
1196 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
1197 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
1198 side of Proposal 174.
1199 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
1200 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
1201 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
1202 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
1203 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
1204 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
1205 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
1206 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
1207 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
1208 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
1209 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
1210 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
1212 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
1213 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
1214 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
1215 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
1216 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
1219 o Major features (relays):
1220 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
1221 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
1222 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
1223 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
1224 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
1225 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
1226 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
1228 o Major features (stream isolation):
1229 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
1230 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
1231 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
1232 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
1233 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
1234 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
1235 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
1236 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
1237 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
1238 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
1239 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
1240 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
1241 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
1242 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
1244 o Major features (bufferevents):
1245 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
1246 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
1247 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
1248 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
1249 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
1250 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
1251 zero-copy transports where available.
1252 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
1253 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
1254 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
1255 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
1256 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
1257 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
1259 o Major features (path selection):
1260 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
1261 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
1262 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
1263 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
1266 o Major features (port forwarding):
1267 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
1268 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
1269 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
1270 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
1271 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
1272 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
1274 o Major features (logging):
1275 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
1276 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
1277 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
1278 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
1279 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
1280 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
1281 Implements enhancement 1668.
1283 o Major features (other):
1284 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
1285 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
1286 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
1287 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
1288 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
1289 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
1290 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
1291 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
1292 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
1293 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
1294 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
1295 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
1296 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
1297 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
1298 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
1299 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
1300 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
1301 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
1302 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
1303 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
1305 o New directory authorities:
1306 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
1307 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
1309 o Security/privacy fixes:
1310 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
1311 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
1312 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1313 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
1314 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
1315 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
1316 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
1317 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
1318 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
1319 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
1320 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
1321 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
1322 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
1323 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
1324 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
1325 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
1326 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
1327 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
1328 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
1329 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
1330 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
1331 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
1332 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
1333 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
1334 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
1335 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
1336 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
1337 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
1338 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
1339 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
1340 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
1342 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
1343 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
1344 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
1345 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
1346 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
1347 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
1348 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
1349 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1350 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
1351 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
1352 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
1353 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
1354 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
1355 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
1358 o Major bugfixes (clients):
1359 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
1360 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
1361 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
1362 which introduced predicted ports.
1363 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
1364 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
1365 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
1366 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
1367 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
1368 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
1369 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1370 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
1371 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
1373 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
1374 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
1375 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
1376 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
1377 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
1378 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
1380 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
1381 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
1382 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
1383 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
1384 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
1385 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
1386 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
1387 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
1388 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
1391 o Major bugfixes (relays):
1392 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
1393 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
1394 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
1395 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
1396 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
1397 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
1398 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
1399 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
1400 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
1401 immensely in tracking this bug down.
1402 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
1403 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
1404 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
1405 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
1406 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
1407 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
1408 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
1410 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
1411 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
1412 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
1413 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
1414 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
1415 cells were introduced.
1416 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
1417 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
1418 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
1419 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
1421 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1422 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
1423 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
1424 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
1425 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
1426 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
1427 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
1428 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
1429 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
1430 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
1431 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
1432 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
1433 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
1434 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
1435 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
1436 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
1437 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
1438 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
1439 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
1440 Fixes part of bug 3825.
1442 o Changes to default torrc file:
1443 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
1444 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
1446 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
1447 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
1448 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
1450 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
1451 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
1452 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
1454 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1455 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
1456 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
1457 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
1458 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
1459 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
1460 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
1461 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
1462 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
1463 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
1464 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
1465 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
1466 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
1467 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
1468 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
1469 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
1472 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
1473 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
1474 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
1475 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
1476 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
1477 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
1478 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
1479 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
1480 sure. Closes bug 5139.
1481 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
1482 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
1483 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
1484 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
1485 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
1487 o Minor features (IPv6):
1488 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
1489 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
1490 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
1491 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
1492 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
1493 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
1495 o Minor features (hidden services):
1496 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
1497 Required by fix for bug 3460.
1498 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
1499 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
1500 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
1501 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
1502 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
1503 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
1504 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
1505 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
1506 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
1508 o Minor features (relays):
1509 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
1510 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
1511 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
1512 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
1513 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
1514 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
1515 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
1516 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
1517 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
1518 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
1519 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
1522 o Minor features (new config options):
1523 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
1524 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
1525 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
1526 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
1527 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
1528 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
1529 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
1530 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
1531 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
1532 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
1533 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
1534 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
1536 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
1537 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
1538 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
1539 Implements issue 933.
1540 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
1541 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
1542 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
1543 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
1544 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
1545 implements ticket 3439.
1546 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
1547 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
1548 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
1549 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
1550 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
1551 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
1552 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
1553 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
1555 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
1556 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
1557 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
1558 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
1559 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
1560 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
1561 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
1562 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
1563 appending to the list.
1564 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
1565 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
1566 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
1567 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
1570 o Minor features (controller, new events):
1571 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
1572 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
1573 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
1574 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
1575 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
1576 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
1578 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
1579 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
1580 circuit-status' control-port command.
1581 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
1582 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
1583 user. Implements ticket 1692.
1584 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
1585 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
1586 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
1588 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
1589 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
1590 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
1591 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
1592 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
1593 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
1594 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
1595 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
1596 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
1598 o Minor features (controller, other):
1599 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
1600 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
1601 part of ticket 3457.
1602 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
1603 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
1604 file. Resolves bug 1101.
1605 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
1606 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
1608 o Minor features (log messages):
1609 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
1610 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
1611 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
1612 please let us know about it.
1613 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
1614 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
1615 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
1616 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
1617 Resolves ticket 2474.
1618 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
1619 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
1621 o Minor features (other):
1622 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
1623 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
1624 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
1625 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
1627 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
1628 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
1629 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
1630 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
1631 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
1632 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
1633 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
1635 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
1636 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
1637 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
1638 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
1639 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
1641 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
1642 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
1643 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
1644 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
1645 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
1646 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
1647 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
1648 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
1649 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1650 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
1651 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
1652 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
1653 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
1654 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
1655 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
1656 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
1659 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
1660 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
1661 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
1662 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
1663 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
1664 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
1665 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
1666 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
1667 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
1669 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
1670 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
1671 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
1672 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
1673 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
1674 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
1675 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1676 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
1677 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
1678 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
1680 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
1681 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
1682 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1683 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
1684 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
1685 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
1686 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
1687 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
1688 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
1690 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
1691 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
1692 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1693 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
1694 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
1695 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
1696 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
1697 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
1698 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
1700 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
1701 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
1702 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
1703 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
1704 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
1705 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
1706 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
1708 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
1709 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
1710 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
1711 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
1713 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
1714 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
1715 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
1716 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
1717 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
1718 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
1719 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
1720 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
1721 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
1722 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
1723 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
1724 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
1727 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
1728 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
1729 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1730 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
1731 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
1732 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
1734 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
1735 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
1736 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1737 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
1738 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
1739 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
1740 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
1741 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
1742 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
1743 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
1744 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
1745 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
1746 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
1747 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
1748 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
1750 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
1751 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
1752 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
1753 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
1754 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
1755 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
1757 - Avoid undefined behaviour when parsing the list of supported
1758 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
1759 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
1760 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
1761 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
1762 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
1763 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
1764 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
1765 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
1766 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
1767 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
1768 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
1769 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
1770 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
1771 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1773 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
1774 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
1775 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behaviour change can
1776 be disabled using the new
1777 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
1778 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1779 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
1780 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
1781 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
1782 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
1783 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
1785 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
1786 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
1787 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
1788 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1789 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
1790 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
1791 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
1793 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
1794 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
1795 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
1796 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
1797 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1798 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
1799 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
1800 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
1802 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
1803 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
1804 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
1805 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1806 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
1807 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
1808 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
1809 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
1811 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1812 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
1813 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
1814 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
1815 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
1816 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
1817 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
1818 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
1820 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
1821 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
1822 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
1823 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
1825 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
1826 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
1827 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
1829 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
1830 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
1832 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
1833 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
1834 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
1835 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
1836 case for flushing marked connections.
1837 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
1838 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
1839 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
1840 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
1841 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
1842 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1843 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
1844 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
1845 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
1846 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
1848 o Minor bugfixes (other):
1849 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
1850 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
1851 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
1852 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
1853 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
1854 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
1855 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
1856 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
1857 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
1858 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
1860 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
1861 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
1862 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
1863 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
1864 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1866 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
1867 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
1868 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
1869 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
1870 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
1871 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
1872 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
1873 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
1874 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
1875 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
1876 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
1877 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
1878 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
1879 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
1880 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
1881 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
1883 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
1884 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
1885 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
1886 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
1887 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
1888 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
1889 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
1890 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
1891 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
1892 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
1893 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
1894 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
1895 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
1896 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
1897 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
1898 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
1899 Implements ticket 3264.
1900 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
1902 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
1903 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
1904 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
1905 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
1906 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
1907 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
1909 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
1910 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
1911 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
1912 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
1913 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
1914 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
1915 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
1916 them from the other auths.
1917 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
1918 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
1919 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
1920 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1921 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
1922 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
1923 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
1924 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
1928 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
1929 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
1930 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
1932 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
1933 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
1934 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
1935 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
1936 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
1937 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
1938 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
1939 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
1941 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
1942 ./src/test/bench binary.
1943 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
1944 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
1945 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
1946 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
1949 o Build improvements:
1950 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
1951 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
1952 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
1953 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
1954 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
1955 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
1956 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
1957 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
1958 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
1959 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
1960 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
1961 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
1962 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
1963 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
1964 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
1965 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
1966 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
1967 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
1968 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
1969 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
1970 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
1972 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
1974 o Build requirements:
1975 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
1976 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
1977 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
1978 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
1979 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
1980 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
1981 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
1982 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
1983 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
1984 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
1985 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
1986 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
1987 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
1989 o Build fixes (compile/link):
1990 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
1991 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
1993 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
1994 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
1995 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
1996 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
1997 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
1998 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
1999 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2000 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
2001 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
2003 o Build fixes (other):
2004 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
2005 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
2007 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
2008 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
2009 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
2010 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2011 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
2012 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
2013 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
2014 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
2016 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
2017 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
2020 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
2021 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
2022 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
2023 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
2024 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
2025 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
2026 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
2027 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
2029 o Code refactoring (safety):
2030 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
2031 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
2032 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
2033 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
2034 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
2035 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
2036 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
2037 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
2038 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
2039 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
2040 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
2041 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
2043 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
2044 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
2045 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
2046 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
2047 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
2048 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
2049 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
2050 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
2051 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
2052 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
2053 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
2054 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
2055 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
2056 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
2057 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
2058 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
2059 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
2060 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
2062 o Code refactoring (separate):
2063 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
2064 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
2065 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
2067 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
2068 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
2071 o Code refactoring (name changes):
2072 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
2073 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
2074 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
2075 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
2076 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
2077 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
2078 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
2080 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
2081 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
2082 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
2083 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
2084 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
2085 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
2086 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
2087 invalid value, rather than just -1.
2088 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
2089 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
2090 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
2092 o Code refactoring (other):
2093 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
2094 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
2096 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
2097 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
2098 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
2099 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
2100 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
2101 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
2102 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
2103 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
2104 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
2105 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
2106 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
2107 our library structure used to force them to link it.
2109 o Removed features and files:
2110 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
2111 it would be a bad idea to start.
2112 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
2114 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
2115 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
2116 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
2117 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
2118 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
2119 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
2120 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
2121 are no longer in use as relays.
2122 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
2123 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
2124 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
2125 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
2126 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
2127 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
2131 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
2132 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
2133 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
2135 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
2136 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
2138 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
2139 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
2140 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
2142 o Documentation fixes:
2143 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
2144 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
2145 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
2146 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
2147 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
2148 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
2149 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
2150 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
2153 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
2154 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
2158 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
2159 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
2160 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2161 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
2162 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
2163 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
2164 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
2168 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
2169 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
2170 attack that could in theory leak path information.
2173 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
2174 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
2175 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2176 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
2177 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
2178 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
2179 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
2180 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
2181 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
2182 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
2183 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
2184 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
2185 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
2186 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
2189 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
2190 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
2191 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
2195 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
2196 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
2197 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
2198 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
2199 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
2200 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
2201 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2202 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
2203 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
2204 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
2205 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2208 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
2209 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
2212 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
2213 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
2216 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
2217 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
2218 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
2219 and fixes several crash bugs.
2221 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
2222 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
2223 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
2224 those packages and upgrade anyway.
2226 o Directory authority changes:
2227 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
2228 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
2232 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
2233 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
2234 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
2235 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
2236 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
2237 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
2238 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
2239 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
2240 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
2241 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
2242 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
2243 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
2244 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
2245 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
2246 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
2247 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
2248 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
2249 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
2250 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
2251 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
2252 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
2253 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
2254 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
2255 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
2256 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
2257 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
2258 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
2261 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
2262 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2263 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
2264 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
2266 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
2267 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
2269 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
2270 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
2271 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
2272 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
2273 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
2274 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
2275 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
2276 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
2279 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
2280 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
2281 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
2282 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
2283 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
2284 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
2285 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
2286 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
2287 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
2288 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
2289 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
2290 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
2291 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
2292 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
2293 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
2294 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
2295 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
2296 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
2297 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
2298 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
2299 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
2300 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
2301 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
2302 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
2303 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
2304 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
2305 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
2306 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
2307 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
2308 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
2309 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
2310 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
2311 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
2312 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
2313 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
2314 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
2315 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
2316 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
2317 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
2318 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2319 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
2320 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2321 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
2322 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
2323 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
2324 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
2326 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
2327 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
2328 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
2329 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
2330 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
2331 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
2332 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
2333 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
2334 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
2335 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
2336 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2337 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
2338 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
2339 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
2340 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
2343 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
2344 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
2345 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
2346 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
2348 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2351 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
2352 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
2353 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
2354 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
2355 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
2356 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
2357 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
2360 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
2361 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
2362 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
2364 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
2365 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
2366 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
2367 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
2368 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
2369 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
2370 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
2371 (which Tor does not do by default).
2373 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
2374 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
2375 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
2376 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
2377 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
2379 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
2380 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
2381 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
2384 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
2385 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
2386 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
2387 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
2388 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
2390 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
2391 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
2394 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
2395 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
2396 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
2397 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
2398 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
2399 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
2400 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
2401 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
2403 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
2404 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
2405 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
2406 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
2407 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
2408 close based on processing a cell on it.
2409 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
2410 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
2411 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
2412 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2413 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
2414 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
2415 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2416 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
2417 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
2418 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
2419 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
2420 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
2421 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
2422 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
2423 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
2426 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
2427 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
2428 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
2429 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
2430 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
2431 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
2432 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
2434 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
2435 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
2436 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
2437 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
2438 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
2439 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
2440 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
2441 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
2442 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2443 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
2444 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
2445 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
2446 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
2447 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2448 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
2449 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
2450 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
2451 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
2452 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2453 Reported by "troll_un".
2454 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
2455 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2456 Reported by "troll_un".
2457 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
2458 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
2459 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
2460 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
2463 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
2464 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
2465 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
2466 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
2467 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
2468 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
2469 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
2470 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
2471 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
2472 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
2473 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2475 o Packaging changes:
2476 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
2477 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
2480 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
2481 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
2482 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
2483 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
2484 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
2486 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
2487 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
2489 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
2490 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
2491 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
2492 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
2493 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2494 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
2495 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
2496 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
2497 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
2500 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2503 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
2504 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
2505 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
2507 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
2508 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
2509 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
2510 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
2511 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
2512 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
2513 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
2514 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
2515 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
2516 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
2517 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
2518 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
2519 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
2521 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
2522 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
2523 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
2524 currently connected to them.
2526 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
2527 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
2528 remain; see for example proposal 188.
2530 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
2531 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
2532 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
2533 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
2534 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
2535 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
2536 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
2537 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
2538 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
2539 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
2540 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
2541 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
2542 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
2543 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
2544 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
2545 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
2546 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
2547 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
2550 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
2551 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
2552 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
2553 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
2554 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
2555 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
2556 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
2557 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
2558 when bridges were introduced.
2559 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
2560 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
2561 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
2562 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2563 Found by "frosty_un".
2566 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
2567 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
2569 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
2570 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
2571 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
2572 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
2573 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
2574 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
2575 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
2578 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
2579 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
2580 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
2581 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
2582 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
2583 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
2584 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
2585 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
2586 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
2587 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
2588 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
2589 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
2590 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
2591 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
2592 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
2593 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
2594 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
2595 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
2597 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
2598 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
2599 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
2600 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2601 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
2602 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
2603 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
2604 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
2605 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
2606 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
2607 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
2608 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2611 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
2612 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
2613 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
2614 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2617 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
2618 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
2619 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
2620 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
2621 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
2623 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
2624 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
2625 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
2626 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
2627 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
2628 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
2629 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
2630 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
2631 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
2632 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
2634 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
2635 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
2636 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
2637 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
2638 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
2639 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
2640 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
2641 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
2642 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
2643 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
2644 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
2645 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
2646 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
2647 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
2648 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2649 Found by "frosty_un".
2650 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
2651 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
2652 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
2653 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
2654 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
2655 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
2656 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
2657 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
2658 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2659 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
2660 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
2661 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
2662 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2663 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
2664 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
2665 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
2666 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
2667 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
2668 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
2670 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
2671 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
2672 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
2673 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
2674 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
2675 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
2676 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
2677 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
2679 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
2680 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
2681 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
2682 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
2683 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
2684 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
2685 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
2686 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
2687 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
2688 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
2689 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
2690 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
2692 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
2693 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2694 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
2695 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2696 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
2697 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2698 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
2699 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
2700 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
2702 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
2704 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
2705 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
2706 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
2707 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2708 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
2709 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
2710 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
2711 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
2713 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
2714 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
2715 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
2716 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
2717 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
2719 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
2720 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
2721 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
2722 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
2723 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2726 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
2727 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
2728 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
2729 reachable from Iran again.
2732 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
2733 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
2734 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
2736 o Minor features (security):
2737 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
2738 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
2739 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
2740 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
2741 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
2742 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
2743 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
2744 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
2745 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
2746 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
2749 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
2750 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
2751 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
2752 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
2753 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
2754 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
2755 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
2756 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
2757 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
2759 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
2760 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
2761 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
2762 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
2763 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
2765 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
2766 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
2767 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
2768 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
2769 fixes part of bug 2442.
2770 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
2771 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
2772 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
2774 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
2775 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
2776 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
2777 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
2778 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
2781 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
2782 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
2783 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
2784 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
2785 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
2786 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
2789 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
2790 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
2791 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
2792 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
2793 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
2794 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
2795 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
2796 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
2797 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
2798 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
2800 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
2801 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
2802 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
2803 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
2804 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
2805 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
2806 many many other features and bugfixes.
2808 o Major features (client performance):
2809 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
2810 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
2811 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
2812 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
2813 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
2814 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
2816 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
2817 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
2818 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
2819 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
2820 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
2821 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
2822 the first implementation of this feature.
2824 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
2825 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
2826 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
2827 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
2828 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
2829 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
2830 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
2831 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
2832 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
2833 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
2834 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
2835 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
2836 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
2837 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
2838 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
2839 file. Implements ticket 1296.
2841 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
2842 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
2843 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
2844 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
2845 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
2846 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
2847 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
2848 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
2849 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
2850 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
2851 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
2852 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
2853 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
2854 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
2855 they first get the Guard flag.
2856 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
2857 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
2858 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
2859 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
2860 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
2861 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
2862 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
2863 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
2865 o Major features (relays control their load better):
2866 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
2867 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
2868 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
2869 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
2870 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
2871 based on a variant of proposal 163.
2872 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
2873 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
2874 but never per-conn write limits.
2875 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
2876 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
2877 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
2878 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
2880 o Major features (controllers):
2881 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
2882 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
2883 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
2884 contributions to the network.
2885 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
2886 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
2887 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
2889 o Major features (directory authorities):
2890 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
2891 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
2892 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
2894 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
2895 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
2896 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
2897 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
2898 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
2899 download consensus + microdescriptors".
2900 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
2901 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
2902 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
2903 hash algorithm in the future.
2904 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
2905 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
2906 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
2908 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
2909 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
2910 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
2911 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
2912 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
2913 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
2914 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
2915 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
2916 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
2917 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
2918 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
2919 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
2920 connections to directory servers.
2921 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
2922 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
2923 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
2924 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
2925 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
2926 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
2927 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
2928 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
2929 information, or fetch directory information.
2930 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
2931 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
2932 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
2933 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
2934 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
2936 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
2937 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
2938 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
2939 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
2940 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
2941 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
2942 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
2943 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
2944 the network changes.
2945 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
2946 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
2948 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
2949 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
2950 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
2951 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
2952 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
2953 unless you really want your Tor to break.
2954 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
2955 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
2956 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
2957 - When StrictNodes is 1:
2958 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
2959 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
2960 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
2961 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
2962 reachability self-tests.
2963 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
2964 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
2965 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
2966 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
2967 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
2969 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
2970 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2971 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
2973 o Major features (misc):
2974 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
2975 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
2976 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
2977 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
2978 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
2979 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
2980 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
2981 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
2982 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
2983 part of ticket 3076.
2984 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
2985 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
2986 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
2988 o Code security improvements:
2989 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
2990 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
2991 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
2992 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
2993 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
2994 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
2995 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
2996 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
2997 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
2998 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
2999 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
3000 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
3001 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
3002 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
3003 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
3004 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
3005 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
3006 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
3007 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
3008 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
3009 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
3010 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
3011 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
3012 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
3013 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
3014 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
3015 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
3016 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
3018 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
3019 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
3020 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
3021 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
3022 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
3023 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
3024 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
3025 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
3026 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
3027 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
3028 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
3029 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
3030 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
3032 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
3033 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
3034 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
3036 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
3037 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
3039 o Major bugfixes (stability):
3040 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
3041 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
3042 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
3043 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
3044 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3045 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
3046 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
3047 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
3048 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
3049 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
3050 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
3051 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
3052 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
3053 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
3054 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
3055 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
3057 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
3058 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
3059 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
3061 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
3062 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
3063 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
3064 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
3065 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
3066 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
3067 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
3068 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
3069 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
3070 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
3071 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
3072 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
3073 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
3074 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
3075 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
3076 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
3077 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
3078 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
3079 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3081 o Privacy fixes (clients):
3082 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
3083 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
3084 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
3085 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
3086 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
3087 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
3088 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
3089 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
3090 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
3092 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
3093 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
3094 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
3095 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
3096 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
3097 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
3098 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
3099 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
3100 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
3101 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
3103 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
3104 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
3105 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
3106 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3107 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
3108 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
3109 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3110 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
3111 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
3112 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
3113 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
3114 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
3115 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
3117 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
3118 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
3119 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
3120 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
3121 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
3122 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
3123 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
3124 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
3125 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
3126 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3128 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
3129 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
3130 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
3131 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
3132 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
3133 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
3134 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
3136 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
3137 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
3138 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
3139 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
3140 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
3141 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
3142 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
3143 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
3144 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
3145 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
3146 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
3147 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
3148 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
3149 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
3150 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
3152 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
3153 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
3154 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
3155 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
3156 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
3157 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
3158 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
3160 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
3161 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
3162 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
3163 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
3164 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
3165 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
3166 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
3167 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
3169 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
3170 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
3171 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
3172 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
3173 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
3174 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
3175 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
3176 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
3177 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
3178 the longest-lived bug prize.
3179 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
3180 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
3181 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
3182 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
3183 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
3184 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
3185 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
3186 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
3187 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
3188 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
3190 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
3191 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
3192 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
3193 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
3194 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
3195 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
3198 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
3199 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
3200 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
3201 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
3202 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
3203 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
3204 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
3205 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
3206 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
3207 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
3208 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
3209 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3210 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
3211 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
3212 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
3213 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
3214 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
3215 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
3216 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
3217 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
3218 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
3219 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
3220 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
3221 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
3222 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
3223 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
3225 o Major bugfixes (misc):
3226 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
3227 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
3228 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
3229 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
3230 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
3231 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
3232 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
3233 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
3235 o Minor features (relays):
3236 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
3237 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
3238 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
3239 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
3240 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
3241 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
3242 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
3243 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
3245 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
3246 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
3247 Resolves ticket 3252.
3248 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
3249 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
3251 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
3252 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
3253 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
3254 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
3255 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
3257 o Minor features (network statistics):
3258 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
3259 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
3260 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
3261 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
3262 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
3263 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
3264 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
3265 measure download times.
3266 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
3267 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
3269 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
3270 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
3271 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
3272 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
3274 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
3275 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
3276 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
3278 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
3279 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
3280 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
3281 Implements ticket 2432.
3282 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
3283 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
3284 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
3285 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
3286 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
3287 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
3288 Implements enhancement 1790.
3289 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
3290 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
3292 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
3293 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
3294 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
3295 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
3296 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
3297 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
3298 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
3300 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
3302 o Minor features (clients):
3303 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
3304 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
3305 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
3306 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
3308 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
3309 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
3310 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
3311 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
3312 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
3313 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
3314 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
3315 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
3317 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
3318 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
3319 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
3320 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
3321 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
3322 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
3323 SSL handshake issues.
3325 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3326 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
3327 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
3328 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
3329 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
3330 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
3331 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
3332 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
3333 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
3334 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
3335 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
3336 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
3337 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
3338 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
3339 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
3340 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
3341 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
3342 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
3343 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
3344 hour of their uptime.
3345 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
3346 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
3347 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
3348 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
3350 o Minor features (hidden services):
3351 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
3352 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
3353 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
3354 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
3355 Required by fix for bug 3000.
3356 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
3357 by fix for bug 3000.
3358 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
3359 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
3360 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
3361 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
3362 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
3364 o Minor features (controller interface):
3365 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
3366 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
3367 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
3368 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
3369 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
3370 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
3371 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
3372 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
3373 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
3374 over our stored history.
3375 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
3376 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
3377 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
3379 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
3380 to the circuit build timeout.
3381 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
3382 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
3383 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
3385 o Minor features (controller protocol):
3386 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
3387 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
3388 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
3390 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
3391 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
3392 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
3393 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
3394 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
3395 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
3396 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
3397 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
3398 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
3399 arguments we do not recognize.
3401 o Minor features (more useful logging):
3402 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
3403 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
3404 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
3405 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
3406 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
3407 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
3408 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
3409 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
3410 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
3411 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
3412 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
3413 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
3414 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
3415 got suppressed since the last warning.
3416 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
3417 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
3418 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
3419 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
3420 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
3421 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
3422 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
3424 o Minor features (log domains):
3425 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
3426 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
3427 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
3429 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
3430 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
3432 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
3433 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
3434 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
3436 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
3437 during the TLS handshake.
3439 o Minor features (build process):
3440 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
3441 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
3442 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
3444 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
3445 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
3446 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
3448 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
3449 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
3450 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
3451 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
3452 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
3453 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
3455 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
3456 source files Tor was built with.
3457 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
3458 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
3459 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
3460 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
3461 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
3462 speeds up the build considerably.
3464 o Minor features (options / torrc):
3465 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
3466 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
3467 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
3468 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
3469 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
3470 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
3471 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
3472 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
3473 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
3474 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
3475 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
3476 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
3477 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
3478 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
3479 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
3480 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
3481 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
3482 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
3483 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
3484 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
3485 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
3486 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
3487 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
3488 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
3489 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
3490 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
3491 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
3493 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
3494 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
3495 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
3498 o Minor features (unit tests):
3499 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
3500 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
3501 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
3502 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
3503 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
3504 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
3506 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
3507 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
3510 o Minor features (misc):
3511 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
3512 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
3513 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
3514 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
3516 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
3517 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
3518 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
3519 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
3520 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
3522 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
3523 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
3524 open() without checking it.
3525 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
3526 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
3527 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
3528 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
3530 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
3531 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
3532 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
3533 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
3534 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
3535 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
3536 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
3537 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
3538 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
3539 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
3540 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
3541 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
3542 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
3543 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
3544 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
3545 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
3546 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
3547 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
3548 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
3549 based on the time during which we were active and not in
3550 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
3551 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
3552 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
3553 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
3554 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3555 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
3556 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
3557 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
3559 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
3560 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
3561 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
3562 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
3564 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
3565 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
3566 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
3567 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
3568 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
3570 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
3571 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
3572 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3573 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
3574 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
3575 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
3576 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
3577 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
3578 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
3579 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
3580 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
3581 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
3582 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
3584 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
3585 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
3586 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
3587 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
3588 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
3589 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
3590 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
3591 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
3592 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
3593 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
3594 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
3595 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
3596 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
3597 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
3598 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
3599 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
3600 two-hop circuits are actually created.
3601 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
3602 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
3603 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
3604 behaviour for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
3606 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3607 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
3608 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
3609 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
3610 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
3611 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
3612 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
3613 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
3614 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
3616 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
3617 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
3618 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
3619 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
3620 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
3621 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
3622 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
3623 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
3624 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
3625 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
3626 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
3627 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
3628 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
3631 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
3632 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
3633 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
3634 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
3635 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3636 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
3637 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
3638 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
3639 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
3640 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
3641 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
3643 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
3644 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
3646 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
3647 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
3648 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
3649 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
3650 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3651 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
3652 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
3653 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
3655 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
3656 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
3657 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
3658 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3659 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
3660 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
3661 discovered by katmagic.
3662 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
3663 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
3665 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
3666 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3667 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
3668 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
3669 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
3670 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
3671 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
3672 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
3673 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
3675 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
3676 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
3678 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
3679 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
3681 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
3682 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
3684 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
3685 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
3686 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
3687 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
3688 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
3689 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
3690 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
3691 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
3692 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
3693 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
3694 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
3695 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
3696 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
3697 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
3698 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
3700 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
3701 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
3702 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
3703 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
3704 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
3705 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
3706 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
3707 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
3708 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
3710 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
3711 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
3712 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
3714 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
3715 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
3716 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
3717 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
3719 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
3720 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
3721 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
3722 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
3723 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
3724 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
3725 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
3727 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
3728 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
3729 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
3730 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3731 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
3732 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
3734 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
3735 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
3736 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
3737 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
3738 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
3739 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
3740 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
3741 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3742 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
3744 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
3745 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
3746 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3747 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
3748 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3749 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
3750 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
3751 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
3752 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
3753 control-spec.txt said they were.
3755 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3756 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
3757 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
3759 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
3760 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3761 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
3762 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
3763 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
3765 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
3766 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
3768 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
3769 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
3770 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
3771 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
3772 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
3773 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
3774 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
3776 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
3777 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
3778 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
3779 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3780 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
3781 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
3782 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
3783 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
3786 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3787 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
3788 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
3789 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
3790 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
3791 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
3792 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
3793 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
3794 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
3795 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
3796 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
3797 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3798 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
3799 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
3800 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
3802 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
3803 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
3804 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
3805 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
3806 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
3807 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3808 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
3810 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
3811 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
3814 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
3815 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
3816 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
3817 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
3818 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3819 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
3820 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
3821 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
3822 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
3823 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
3824 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
3825 fixes part of bug 3407.
3826 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behaviour sane. Its callers
3827 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
3828 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
3829 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
3830 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
3831 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
3832 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
3833 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
3834 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
3835 consensus. Bugfix on tor-0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
3837 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
3838 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
3839 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
3840 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
3841 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
3842 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
3843 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
3844 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3845 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
3846 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
3847 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
3848 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3849 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
3850 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
3851 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
3852 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
3853 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
3855 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
3856 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
3857 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
3858 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
3859 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
3860 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
3862 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
3863 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
3864 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
3865 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
3866 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
3868 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
3869 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
3870 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
3871 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
3872 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
3874 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
3875 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
3876 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
3877 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
3879 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
3880 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
3881 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
3882 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
3883 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
3884 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
3885 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
3886 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
3887 structures and defines in or.h for now.
3888 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
3890 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
3891 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
3892 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
3893 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
3894 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
3895 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
3896 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
3897 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
3899 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
3900 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
3901 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
3903 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
3904 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
3905 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
3906 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
3907 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
3908 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
3909 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
3910 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
3911 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
3912 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
3914 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
3916 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
3917 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
3918 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
3919 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
3920 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
3921 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
3922 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
3923 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
3924 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
3925 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
3927 o Documentation changes:
3928 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
3929 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
3931 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
3932 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
3933 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
3934 what should go in a patch.
3935 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
3937 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
3938 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
3939 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
3940 projects directory in svn.
3942 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
3943 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
3944 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
3945 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
3946 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
3947 hidden service usage.
3948 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
3949 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
3950 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
3951 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
3952 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
3955 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
3956 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
3957 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
3958 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
3959 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
3962 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
3963 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
3964 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
3965 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
3966 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
3967 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
3968 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
3969 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
3970 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
3971 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
3972 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
3973 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
3974 via application-level web tricks.
3975 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
3976 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
3977 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
3978 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
3979 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
3980 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
3981 send a body too). Since only server versions before
3982 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
3983 keep the workaround in place.
3984 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
3985 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
3986 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
3987 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
3988 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
3989 want to do it differently.
3990 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
3991 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
3992 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
3995 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
3996 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
3997 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
3998 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
3999 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
4000 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
4003 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
4004 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
4005 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
4006 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
4007 the rest of bug 1074.
4008 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
4009 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4011 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
4012 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
4013 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
4014 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
4015 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
4016 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
4017 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4020 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
4022 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4025 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
4026 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
4027 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
4028 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
4029 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
4030 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
4031 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
4032 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
4033 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
4034 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
4035 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4037 o Packaging changes:
4038 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
4039 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
4040 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
4041 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
4042 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
4043 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
4046 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
4047 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
4048 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
4049 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
4050 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
4052 o Major bugfixes (security):
4053 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
4054 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
4055 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
4057 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
4058 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
4059 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
4060 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
4061 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
4062 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
4063 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
4064 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
4066 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
4067 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
4068 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
4069 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
4070 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
4071 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
4072 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
4073 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
4074 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
4075 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
4076 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
4077 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
4078 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
4079 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
4082 o Minor bugfixes (other):
4083 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
4084 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
4085 bug reported by doorss.
4086 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
4087 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
4088 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4089 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
4090 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
4092 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
4093 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
4094 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
4095 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
4096 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4099 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4100 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
4103 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
4104 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
4105 Automake 1.7 or later.
4106 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
4107 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
4108 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
4109 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
4112 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
4113 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
4114 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
4115 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
4119 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
4120 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
4121 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
4122 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
4124 o Directory authority changes:
4125 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
4128 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4131 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
4132 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
4133 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
4134 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
4135 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
4138 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
4139 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
4140 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
4141 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
4142 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4143 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
4144 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
4145 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
4146 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
4147 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4148 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
4149 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
4150 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
4151 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
4152 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
4153 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
4154 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
4155 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
4156 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
4157 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
4158 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
4159 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
4160 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
4163 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
4164 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
4165 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
4166 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
4168 o New directory authorities:
4169 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
4173 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
4174 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
4175 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
4177 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
4178 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
4179 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
4180 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
4181 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
4182 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
4184 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
4185 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
4186 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
4189 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
4190 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
4191 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
4192 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
4193 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
4194 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
4195 Patch from mingw-san.
4198 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
4199 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
4200 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
4201 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
4202 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
4203 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
4206 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
4207 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
4208 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
4209 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
4210 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
4212 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
4213 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
4216 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
4217 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
4218 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
4219 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
4220 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
4221 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
4222 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
4223 their directory fetches over TLS).
4224 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
4225 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
4226 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
4227 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
4228 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
4229 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
4230 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
4231 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
4234 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
4235 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
4239 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
4240 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4241 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
4242 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
4243 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
4244 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
4245 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4248 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
4249 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
4250 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
4251 several minor potential security bugs.
4254 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
4255 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
4256 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
4257 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
4258 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
4259 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
4260 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
4263 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
4264 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
4266 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
4267 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
4268 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
4269 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
4272 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
4273 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
4277 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
4278 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
4279 customized patches to run/build.
4282 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
4283 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
4284 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
4287 o Major bugfixes (performance):
4288 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
4289 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
4290 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
4291 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
4292 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
4293 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
4294 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
4297 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
4298 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
4299 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
4300 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
4301 libraries in a security patch.
4302 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
4303 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
4304 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
4305 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
4309 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
4310 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
4313 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
4314 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
4315 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
4316 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
4317 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
4320 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
4321 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
4322 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
4323 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
4324 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
4326 o Directory authority changes:
4327 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
4331 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
4332 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
4333 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4336 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
4337 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
4338 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
4339 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
4340 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
4343 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
4344 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
4345 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
4346 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
4347 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
4348 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
4349 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
4352 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
4353 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
4354 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4355 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
4356 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
4357 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
4359 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
4360 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
4363 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
4364 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
4365 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
4366 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
4368 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
4369 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
4371 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
4372 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
4373 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
4374 in the Vidalia Settings window.
4377 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
4378 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
4379 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
4380 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
4381 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
4383 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
4384 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
4386 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
4387 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
4388 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
4391 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
4392 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
4393 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
4395 o New directory authorities:
4396 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
4398 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
4401 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
4402 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
4404 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
4405 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
4406 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4407 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
4408 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
4409 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
4410 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
4411 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
4412 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
4413 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
4414 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
4415 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
4416 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
4417 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
4418 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
4419 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
4420 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
4422 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
4423 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
4424 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
4426 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
4427 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
4431 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
4432 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
4433 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
4434 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
4435 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
4438 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
4439 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
4443 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
4444 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
4445 part of patch provided by "optimist".
4448 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
4449 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
4450 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
4451 and confuse fewer users.
4454 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
4455 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
4456 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
4457 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
4458 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
4459 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
4460 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
4463 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
4464 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
4465 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
4466 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
4467 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
4468 other features and bug fixes.
4470 o Major features (clients):
4471 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
4472 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
4473 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
4474 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
4476 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
4477 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
4478 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
4479 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
4480 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
4481 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
4482 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
4483 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
4484 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
4485 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
4487 o Major features (relays):
4488 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
4489 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
4490 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
4491 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
4492 data. Found by Jacob.
4493 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
4494 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
4495 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
4496 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
4498 o Major features (hidden services):
4499 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
4500 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
4501 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
4502 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
4503 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
4504 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
4505 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
4506 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
4507 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
4508 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
4509 lookups more reliable.
4511 o Major features (path selection):
4512 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
4513 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
4514 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
4515 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
4516 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
4518 o Major features (misc):
4519 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
4520 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
4522 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
4523 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
4524 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
4525 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
4526 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
4527 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
4529 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
4530 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
4531 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
4532 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
4534 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
4537 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
4538 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
4539 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
4540 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
4541 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
4542 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
4543 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
4544 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
4545 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
4546 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
4547 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
4548 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
4549 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
4550 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
4551 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
4552 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
4553 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
4554 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
4555 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
4556 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
4557 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4558 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
4559 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
4560 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
4561 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
4562 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
4563 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
4564 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
4565 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
4566 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
4567 Implements proposal 148.
4569 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
4570 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
4571 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
4572 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
4573 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
4574 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
4576 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
4577 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
4578 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
4579 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
4580 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
4581 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
4582 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
4583 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4584 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
4586 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
4587 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
4588 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
4589 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
4591 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
4592 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
4593 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
4594 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
4595 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
4596 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
4597 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
4598 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
4599 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4601 o Major bugfixes (clients):
4602 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
4603 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
4604 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
4605 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
4606 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
4607 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
4608 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
4609 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
4610 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
4611 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
4612 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
4613 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
4614 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
4615 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
4616 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
4619 o Major bugfixes (relays):
4620 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
4621 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
4622 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
4623 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
4624 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
4626 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
4627 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
4628 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
4629 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
4630 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
4631 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
4632 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
4633 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
4634 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
4635 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
4638 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
4639 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
4640 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
4641 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
4642 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
4643 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
4645 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
4646 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
4647 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
4648 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
4649 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
4650 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
4651 on a typical directory cache.
4652 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
4653 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
4654 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
4655 and may reduce fragmentation.
4657 o New/changed config options:
4658 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
4659 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
4660 Suggested by Lucky Green.
4661 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
4662 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
4663 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
4664 locked down these days.
4665 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
4666 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
4667 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
4668 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
4669 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
4670 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
4671 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
4672 output to messages of warning and error severity.
4673 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
4674 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
4675 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
4676 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
4677 directory requests we should expect to see.
4678 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
4679 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4680 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
4681 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
4682 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
4683 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
4684 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
4686 o Minor features (relays):
4687 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
4688 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
4689 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
4690 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
4691 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
4693 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
4694 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
4695 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
4696 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
4697 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
4698 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
4699 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
4700 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
4701 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
4702 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
4703 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
4704 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
4705 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
4707 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4708 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
4709 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
4710 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
4711 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
4712 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
4713 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
4714 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
4715 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
4716 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
4717 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
4719 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
4720 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
4721 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
4722 fingerprints with or without space.
4724 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
4725 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
4726 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
4727 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
4728 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
4729 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
4730 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
4731 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
4732 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
4734 o Minor features (bridges):
4735 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
4736 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
4738 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
4739 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
4742 o Minor features (hidden services):
4743 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
4744 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
4745 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
4746 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
4747 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
4748 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
4749 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
4750 faster after restart.
4751 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
4752 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
4754 o Minor features (build and packaging):
4755 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
4757 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
4758 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
4760 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
4761 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
4762 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
4763 entirely. Patch from coderman.
4764 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
4765 are built without support for deprecated functions.
4766 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
4767 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
4768 system to do it for us.
4769 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
4770 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
4771 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
4772 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
4773 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
4774 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
4775 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
4776 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
4777 the letter of C99's alias rules.
4778 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
4779 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
4780 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
4781 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
4782 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
4783 with log.h on Android.
4784 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
4785 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
4787 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
4788 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
4789 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
4790 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
4792 o Minor features (controllers):
4793 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
4794 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
4795 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
4796 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
4797 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
4798 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
4799 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
4800 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
4801 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
4802 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
4804 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
4805 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
4806 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
4807 been fetched and validated.
4808 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
4809 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
4811 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
4813 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
4814 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
4815 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
4816 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
4817 partway through and wants to catch up.
4818 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
4820 o Minor features (tools):
4821 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
4822 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
4823 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
4824 people find host:port too confusing.
4825 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
4826 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
4828 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
4829 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
4830 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4831 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
4832 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
4833 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
4834 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
4835 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
4836 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
4838 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
4839 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
4840 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
4841 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
4842 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
4844 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
4845 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
4846 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
4848 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
4849 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4850 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
4851 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
4852 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
4853 have already been marked for close.
4854 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
4855 memory performance during directory parsing.
4857 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
4858 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
4859 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
4860 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
4861 done that for a long time.
4862 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
4863 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
4864 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
4865 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
4866 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
4867 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
4868 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
4869 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
4870 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
4871 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
4872 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
4873 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
4874 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
4875 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
4876 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
4877 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
4878 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
4879 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
4880 because of a pending download.
4881 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
4882 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
4883 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
4884 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
4885 bug 820, reported by seeess.
4887 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
4888 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
4889 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
4890 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
4891 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
4892 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
4893 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
4894 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
4895 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
4897 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
4898 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
4900 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
4901 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
4902 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4903 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
4904 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
4905 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
4906 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
4907 of 0. Suggested by lark.
4908 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
4909 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
4910 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4911 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
4912 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
4914 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
4915 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
4916 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
4918 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
4919 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
4921 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
4922 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
4923 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
4924 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
4925 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
4926 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
4927 rest, and don't automatically fail.
4928 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
4929 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
4930 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
4931 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
4932 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
4933 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
4935 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4936 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
4937 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
4938 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
4939 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
4940 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
4941 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
4943 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
4944 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4946 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
4947 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
4948 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
4949 Workaround for bug 1024.
4950 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
4951 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
4952 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
4953 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
4954 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
4955 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
4956 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
4957 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
4960 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
4961 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
4964 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
4965 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
4966 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
4967 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
4968 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
4969 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
4970 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
4972 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
4973 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
4974 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
4975 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
4976 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
4977 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
4978 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
4979 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
4982 o Deprecated and removed features:
4983 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
4984 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
4985 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
4987 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
4989 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
4990 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
4991 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
4992 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
4993 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
4994 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
4995 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
4996 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
4997 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
4998 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
4999 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
5000 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
5001 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
5002 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
5005 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5006 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
5007 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
5008 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
5009 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
5011 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
5012 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
5013 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
5014 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
5015 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
5016 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
5017 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
5018 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
5019 actual mistakes we're making here.
5020 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
5021 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
5022 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
5023 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
5024 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
5025 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
5026 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
5027 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
5028 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
5029 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
5030 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
5031 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
5032 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
5033 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
5034 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
5037 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
5039 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
5040 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
5041 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
5042 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
5043 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
5046 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
5047 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
5048 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
5049 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
5050 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
5051 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
5052 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
5053 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
5054 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
5055 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
5058 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
5059 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
5060 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
5061 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
5062 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
5063 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
5064 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
5065 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
5068 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
5069 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
5070 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
5071 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
5072 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
5074 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
5075 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
5076 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
5077 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
5080 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
5081 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5082 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
5083 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
5084 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
5085 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
5086 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
5087 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
5090 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
5091 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
5092 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
5093 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
5096 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
5097 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
5098 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
5099 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
5101 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
5102 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
5103 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
5106 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
5107 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
5110 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
5111 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
5112 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
5113 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
5114 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
5116 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
5117 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
5118 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
5119 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
5120 identify a connection.
5121 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
5122 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
5123 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
5124 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
5125 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
5126 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
5127 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
5128 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
5129 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
5130 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
5132 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
5133 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
5134 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
5135 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
5136 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
5137 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
5138 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
5141 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
5142 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
5144 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
5145 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
5146 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
5147 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
5148 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
5149 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
5150 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5151 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
5153 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
5154 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
5155 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
5156 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
5157 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
5158 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
5159 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
5160 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
5161 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
5162 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
5163 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
5164 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
5165 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
5166 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
5167 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
5168 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
5169 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
5170 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
5171 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
5172 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
5173 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
5174 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
5175 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
5176 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
5177 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
5178 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
5179 840. Patch from rovv.
5180 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
5181 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
5182 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
5184 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
5185 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
5186 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
5187 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
5188 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
5189 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
5190 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
5192 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
5193 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
5194 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
5197 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
5198 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
5200 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
5201 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
5202 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
5203 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
5204 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
5205 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
5206 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
5207 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
5208 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
5210 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
5212 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
5213 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
5217 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
5218 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
5219 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
5220 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
5221 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
5222 variety of other issues.
5225 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
5226 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
5227 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
5228 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
5229 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
5230 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
5231 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
5232 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
5233 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
5234 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
5235 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
5236 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
5239 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
5240 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
5242 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
5243 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
5244 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
5245 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
5246 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
5247 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
5248 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5249 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
5250 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
5251 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
5252 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
5253 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
5254 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
5255 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
5256 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
5260 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
5261 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
5262 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
5263 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
5264 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
5265 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
5266 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
5267 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
5268 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
5269 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
5270 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
5271 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
5272 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
5273 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
5274 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
5275 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
5276 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
5277 list. It has been gone for many months.
5278 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
5279 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
5280 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
5283 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5284 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
5285 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
5288 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
5289 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
5290 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
5291 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
5294 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
5295 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
5296 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
5297 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
5298 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
5299 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
5301 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
5302 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
5303 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
5304 pointed out by rovv.
5307 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
5308 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5309 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
5310 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
5311 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
5312 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
5313 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
5314 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
5315 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
5316 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5317 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
5318 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
5319 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
5320 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
5321 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
5322 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
5323 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
5324 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
5325 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
5326 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
5327 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
5330 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
5331 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
5332 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
5333 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
5334 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
5335 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
5336 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
5338 o New v3 directory design:
5339 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
5340 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
5341 network status document rather than each publishing their own
5342 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
5343 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
5344 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
5345 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
5347 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
5348 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
5349 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
5350 dannenberg (run by CCC).
5351 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
5352 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
5353 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
5354 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
5355 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
5356 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
5357 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
5358 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
5359 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
5360 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
5362 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
5363 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
5364 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
5365 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
5366 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
5367 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
5368 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
5369 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
5370 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
5371 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
5372 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
5373 certain censored countries by default again.
5374 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
5375 Tor's x509 certificates.
5377 o Implement bridge relays:
5378 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
5379 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
5380 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
5381 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
5382 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
5383 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
5384 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
5385 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
5386 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
5387 rather than "v2,v3".
5388 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
5389 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
5390 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
5391 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
5392 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
5393 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
5394 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
5395 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
5396 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
5397 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
5398 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
5400 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
5401 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
5402 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
5403 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
5404 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
5405 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
5406 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
5407 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
5408 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
5409 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
5410 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
5411 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
5412 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
5413 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
5414 bridges are functioning.
5415 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
5416 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
5417 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
5418 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
5419 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
5420 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
5421 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
5422 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
5423 knows that password. Unset by default.
5424 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
5425 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
5426 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
5427 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
5428 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
5429 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
5430 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
5431 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
5432 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
5433 and bridges@torproject.org.
5435 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
5436 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
5437 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
5438 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
5439 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
5440 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
5441 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
5442 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
5443 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
5444 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
5445 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
5446 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
5447 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
5448 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
5449 longer a completely silly thing to do.
5451 o Major features (relay usability):
5452 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
5453 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
5454 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
5455 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
5456 proposal 111 for details.
5457 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
5458 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
5459 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
5460 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
5462 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
5463 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
5464 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
5466 o Major features (directory authorities):
5467 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
5468 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
5469 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
5470 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
5471 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
5472 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
5473 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
5474 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
5475 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
5476 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
5477 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
5478 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
5479 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
5481 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
5482 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
5483 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
5484 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
5485 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
5486 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
5487 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
5488 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
5489 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
5490 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
5491 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
5492 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
5493 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
5494 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
5495 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
5496 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
5497 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
5498 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
5499 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
5500 general, controller, or bridge.
5502 o Major features (other):
5503 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
5504 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
5505 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
5506 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
5507 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
5508 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
5509 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
5510 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
5511 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
5512 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
5513 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
5514 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
5515 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
5516 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
5519 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
5520 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
5521 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
5523 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
5524 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
5525 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
5526 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
5527 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
5528 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
5529 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
5530 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
5531 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
5532 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
5533 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
5535 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
5536 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
5538 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
5539 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
5540 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
5541 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
5543 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
5544 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
5545 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
5546 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
5547 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
5549 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
5550 address maps to an internal address space.
5551 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
5552 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
5553 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
5554 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
5555 complements proposal 107.
5556 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
5557 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
5558 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
5559 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
5560 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
5561 reported by taranis and lodger.
5562 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
5563 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
5564 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
5565 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
5566 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
5567 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
5568 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
5569 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
5570 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
5571 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
5572 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
5573 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
5574 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
5576 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
5577 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
5579 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
5580 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
5581 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
5582 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
5583 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
5584 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
5585 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
5587 o Major bugfixes (other):
5588 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
5589 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
5590 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
5592 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
5593 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
5594 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
5595 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
5596 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
5597 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
5598 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
5599 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
5600 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
5601 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
5602 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
5603 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
5604 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
5605 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
5606 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
5607 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
5608 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
5609 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
5610 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
5612 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
5613 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
5614 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
5615 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
5616 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
5617 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
5618 eat all of our bandwidth.
5619 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
5620 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
5621 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
5622 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
5623 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
5624 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
5625 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
5626 bug 688, reported by mfr.
5627 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
5628 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
5629 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
5630 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
5632 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
5633 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
5634 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
5635 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
5636 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
5637 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
5638 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
5639 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
5640 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
5641 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
5642 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
5643 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
5645 o Performance improvements (memory):
5646 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
5647 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
5648 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
5649 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
5650 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
5651 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
5652 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
5653 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
5654 memory fragmentation.
5655 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
5656 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
5657 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
5658 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
5659 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
5661 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
5662 of them were actually distinct.
5663 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
5665 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
5666 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
5667 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
5668 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
5669 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
5670 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
5671 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
5672 performance-intensive.
5673 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
5674 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
5675 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
5676 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
5677 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
5680 o Performance improvements (socket management):
5681 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
5682 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
5683 our allocated connection limit.
5684 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
5685 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
5686 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
5687 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
5688 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
5690 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
5691 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
5693 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
5694 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
5695 is interested in a given message.
5696 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
5697 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
5698 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
5699 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
5700 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
5702 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
5703 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
5704 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
5706 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
5707 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
5708 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
5710 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
5711 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
5712 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
5713 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
5716 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
5717 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
5718 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
5719 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
5720 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
5721 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
5722 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
5724 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
5725 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
5726 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
5727 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
5728 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
5729 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
5730 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
5731 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
5732 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
5733 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
5734 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
5735 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
5736 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
5739 o Changed config option behavior (features):
5740 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
5741 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
5742 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
5743 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
5744 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
5745 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
5746 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
5747 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
5748 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
5749 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
5750 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
5751 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
5752 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
5753 and are reaching it.
5754 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
5755 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
5756 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
5757 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
5759 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
5760 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
5761 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
5762 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
5763 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
5764 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
5765 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
5766 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
5767 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
5769 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
5770 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
5771 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
5772 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
5773 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
5774 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
5775 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
5776 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
5778 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
5779 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
5781 o New config options:
5782 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
5783 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
5784 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
5785 running a test network on a single host.
5786 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
5787 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
5788 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
5789 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
5790 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
5791 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
5792 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
5793 the approved-routers file.
5794 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
5795 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
5796 v2 directory information.
5798 o Minor features (other):
5799 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
5800 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
5801 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
5802 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
5803 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
5804 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
5806 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
5807 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
5808 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
5809 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
5810 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
5811 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
5812 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
5814 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
5815 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
5816 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
5818 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
5819 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
5820 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
5821 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
5822 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
5824 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
5825 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
5826 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
5827 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
5828 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
5829 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
5830 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
5832 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
5833 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
5834 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
5835 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
5836 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
5837 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
5838 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
5839 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
5840 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
5843 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5844 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
5845 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
5847 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
5848 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
5849 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
5850 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
5851 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
5852 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
5854 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
5855 bandwidthburst values.
5856 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
5857 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
5858 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
5859 to mark all our entry points down.
5860 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
5861 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
5862 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
5863 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
5864 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
5866 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
5867 more often than they are allowed to appear.
5868 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
5869 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
5870 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
5871 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
5872 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
5873 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
5874 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
5876 o Controller features:
5877 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
5878 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
5879 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
5880 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
5881 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
5882 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
5884 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
5885 multiple controller passwords.
5886 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
5887 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
5888 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
5889 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
5891 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
5892 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
5893 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
5894 cookie authentication file, and config option
5895 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
5896 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
5897 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
5898 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
5900 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
5901 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
5902 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
5903 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
5904 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
5905 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
5906 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
5908 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
5909 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
5911 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
5912 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
5913 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
5914 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
5915 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
5916 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
5917 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
5918 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
5919 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
5920 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
5921 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
5922 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
5923 report the value as a "minimum skew."
5925 o Controller bugfixes:
5926 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
5927 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
5928 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
5929 processes can't run us out of memory.
5930 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
5931 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
5932 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
5934 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
5935 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
5936 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
5937 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
5938 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
5939 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
5940 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
5941 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
5942 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
5943 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
5944 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
5945 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
5946 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
5947 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
5948 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
5950 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
5951 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
5953 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
5954 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
5955 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
5956 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
5957 WARN-severity events.
5959 o Portability / building / compiling:
5960 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
5961 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
5962 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
5963 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
5964 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
5965 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
5966 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
5967 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
5968 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
5969 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
5970 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
5971 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
5972 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
5974 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
5975 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
5976 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
5977 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
5978 Use this version consistently in log messages.
5979 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
5980 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
5981 partial results on small file reads.
5982 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
5983 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
5984 a directory. Fix from lodger.
5985 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
5986 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
5987 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
5989 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
5990 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
5991 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
5992 logging for the unit tests.
5993 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
5994 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
5996 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
5997 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
5999 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
6000 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
6001 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
6002 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
6005 o Logging improvements:
6006 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
6007 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
6008 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
6009 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
6010 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
6011 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
6012 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
6014 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
6015 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
6016 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
6017 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
6018 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
6019 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
6020 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
6021 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
6022 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
6023 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
6024 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
6025 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
6026 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
6027 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
6028 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
6029 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
6030 Good in combination with --hash-password.
6031 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
6032 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
6034 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
6035 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
6036 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
6037 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
6039 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
6040 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
6041 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
6042 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
6043 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
6045 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
6046 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
6047 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
6048 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
6049 makes the log messages nicer.
6050 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
6051 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
6053 o Contributed scripts and tools:
6054 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
6055 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
6057 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
6058 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
6059 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
6060 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
6061 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
6062 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
6063 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
6064 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
6065 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
6066 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
6068 o Newly deprecated features:
6069 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
6070 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
6071 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
6072 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
6075 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
6076 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
6077 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
6078 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
6079 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
6081 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
6082 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
6083 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
6084 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
6085 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
6086 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
6087 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
6088 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
6090 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
6091 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
6092 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
6093 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
6094 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
6095 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
6097 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
6098 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
6099 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
6100 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
6101 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
6102 patch from Karsten Loesing.
6103 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
6104 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
6105 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
6106 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
6107 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
6108 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
6109 code), this assumption no longer holds.
6110 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
6114 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
6115 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
6116 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
6117 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
6120 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
6121 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
6122 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
6123 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
6127 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
6128 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
6129 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
6130 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
6131 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
6132 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
6133 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
6134 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
6135 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
6136 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
6137 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
6138 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
6141 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
6142 rebuild our server descriptor.
6143 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
6144 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
6145 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
6146 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
6147 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
6148 nonstandard integer types.
6149 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
6150 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
6151 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
6152 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
6153 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
6155 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
6156 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
6157 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
6158 when they receive them.
6159 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
6160 This includes some 64-bit systems.
6161 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
6162 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
6163 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
6164 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
6165 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
6166 router_get_by_hexdigest().
6167 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
6168 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
6172 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
6173 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
6174 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
6175 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
6176 lists for a few hours each day.
6178 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
6179 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
6180 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
6181 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
6182 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
6183 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
6184 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
6185 rend_process_relay_cell().
6187 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
6188 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
6189 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
6190 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
6191 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
6192 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
6193 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
6194 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
6196 o Major bugfixes (other):
6197 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
6198 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
6199 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
6200 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
6201 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
6202 circuit cannibalization).
6203 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
6204 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
6205 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
6206 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
6207 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
6208 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
6211 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
6212 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
6214 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
6215 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
6216 absent. Resolves bug 467.
6217 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
6218 a way to trigger this remotely.)
6219 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
6220 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
6221 were reporting the dir port.)
6222 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
6223 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
6224 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
6225 the future. Fixes bug 434.
6226 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
6228 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
6229 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
6230 the onion key from getting rotated.
6231 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
6232 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
6233 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
6234 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
6235 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
6236 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
6237 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
6240 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
6241 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
6242 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
6243 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
6244 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
6247 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
6248 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
6251 o Major bugfixes (security):
6252 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
6253 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
6254 become more of a headache than it's worth.
6256 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
6257 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
6258 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
6260 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
6261 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
6262 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
6263 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
6264 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
6265 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
6267 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
6268 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
6269 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
6270 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
6271 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
6273 o Minor features (controller):
6274 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
6275 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
6276 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
6277 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
6279 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
6280 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
6281 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
6282 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
6283 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
6284 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
6285 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
6286 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
6288 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
6289 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
6290 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
6291 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
6292 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
6293 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
6294 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
6295 if we ran off the end of the list.
6296 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
6297 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
6298 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
6299 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
6300 every time we change any piece of our config.
6301 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
6302 encourage people using them to stop.
6303 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
6305 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
6306 servers to choose a circuit.
6307 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
6308 unparseable piece of it.
6311 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
6312 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
6313 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
6314 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
6315 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
6316 TorK, etc. Or worse.
6318 o Major security fixes:
6319 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
6320 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
6323 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
6324 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
6325 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
6326 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
6328 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
6329 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
6331 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
6332 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
6333 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
6334 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
6335 routerlist while inserting a new router.
6336 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
6337 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
6339 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
6340 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
6341 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
6343 o Major bugfixes (security):
6344 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
6346 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
6347 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
6348 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
6349 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
6350 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
6351 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
6352 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
6353 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
6354 guard list unless we need to.
6356 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
6357 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
6358 don't get overused as guards.
6360 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
6361 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
6362 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
6363 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
6364 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
6366 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
6367 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
6368 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
6371 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
6372 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
6373 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
6374 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
6375 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
6376 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
6377 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
6378 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
6381 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
6382 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
6383 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
6384 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
6386 o Directory authority changes:
6387 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
6388 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
6389 or use hidden services.
6391 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
6392 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
6393 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
6394 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
6395 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
6396 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
6397 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
6398 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
6399 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
6402 o Major bugfixes (security):
6403 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
6404 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
6405 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
6407 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
6408 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
6409 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
6410 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
6411 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
6412 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
6413 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
6414 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
6415 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
6416 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
6419 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
6421 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
6422 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
6424 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
6425 having a hard time downloading.
6426 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
6427 partial results on small file reads.
6428 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
6429 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
6430 the gaps in the store get very large.
6433 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
6434 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
6436 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
6437 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
6440 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
6441 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
6442 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
6443 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
6444 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
6445 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
6447 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
6448 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
6449 free speech on the Internet.
6451 o Major features, client performance:
6452 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
6453 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
6454 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
6455 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
6456 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
6457 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
6458 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
6459 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
6460 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
6461 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
6462 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
6463 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
6464 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
6465 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
6466 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
6468 o Major features, client functionality:
6469 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
6470 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
6471 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
6472 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
6473 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
6474 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
6475 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
6476 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
6477 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
6478 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
6479 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
6480 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
6481 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
6483 o Major features, servers:
6484 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
6485 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
6486 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
6487 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
6488 authenticated, so use with care.
6489 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
6490 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
6491 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
6493 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
6494 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
6495 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
6496 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
6497 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
6498 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
6500 o Improvements on DNS support:
6501 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
6502 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
6503 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
6504 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
6505 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
6506 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
6507 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
6508 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
6509 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
6510 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
6511 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
6512 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
6513 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
6514 lets you turn it off.
6515 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
6516 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
6517 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
6518 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
6519 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
6520 useful to the network.
6521 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
6522 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
6523 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
6524 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
6525 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
6526 our tests for DNS hijacking.
6528 o Improvements on reachability testing:
6529 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
6530 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
6531 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
6532 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
6533 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
6534 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
6535 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
6536 if their identity keys are as expected.
6537 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
6538 chews through many circuits before giving up.
6539 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
6540 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
6541 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
6542 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
6543 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
6544 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
6545 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
6546 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
6547 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
6548 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
6549 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
6550 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
6552 o Improvements on rate limiting:
6553 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
6554 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
6555 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
6556 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
6557 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
6559 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
6560 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
6561 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
6562 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
6563 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
6564 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
6565 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
6566 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
6568 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
6569 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
6571 o Major features, NT services:
6572 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
6573 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
6574 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
6575 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
6576 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
6577 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
6578 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
6580 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
6581 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
6582 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
6584 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
6585 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
6586 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
6588 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
6589 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
6591 o Directory authority improvements:
6592 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
6594 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
6595 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
6596 too much load to the exit nodes.
6597 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
6598 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
6599 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
6600 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
6601 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
6602 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
6603 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
6604 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
6605 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
6606 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
6607 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
6608 broken. Not used yet.
6609 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
6610 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
6611 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
6612 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
6613 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
6614 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
6615 non-versioning dirservers.
6616 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
6617 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
6618 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
6620 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
6621 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
6622 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
6623 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
6625 o Directory mirrors and clients:
6626 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
6627 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
6628 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
6629 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
6630 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
6631 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
6632 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
6633 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
6634 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
6635 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
6636 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
6637 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
6638 routers for even longer.
6639 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
6640 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
6641 caching HTTP proxies.
6642 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
6643 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
6644 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
6645 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
6647 o Major fixes, crashes:
6648 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
6649 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
6650 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
6651 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
6653 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
6654 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
6655 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
6657 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
6658 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
6659 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
6660 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
6661 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
6662 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
6663 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
6664 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
6665 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
6666 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
6668 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
6669 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
6670 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
6671 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
6672 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
6673 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
6674 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
6675 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
6676 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
6677 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
6678 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
6679 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
6680 could return an unnamed server instead.
6681 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
6682 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
6683 a more attractive target for compromise.)
6684 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
6685 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
6686 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
6687 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
6689 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
6690 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
6692 o Major fixes, other:
6693 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
6694 uptime in the descriptor.
6695 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
6696 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
6697 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
6698 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
6699 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
6700 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
6701 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
6702 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
6703 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
6704 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
6705 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
6706 our DirPort now, etc.
6707 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
6708 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
6709 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
6711 o New config options or behaviors:
6712 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
6713 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
6714 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
6715 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
6716 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
6717 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
6718 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
6719 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
6720 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
6721 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
6722 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
6723 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
6725 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
6726 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
6727 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
6728 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
6729 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
6731 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
6732 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
6733 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
6734 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
6735 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
6736 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
6737 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
6738 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
6739 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
6740 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
6741 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
6742 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
6743 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
6744 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
6745 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
6746 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
6747 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
6748 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
6749 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
6750 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
6751 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
6752 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
6753 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
6754 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
6755 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
6756 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
6757 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
6758 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
6759 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
6760 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
6762 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
6763 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
6767 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
6768 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
6770 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
6771 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
6772 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
6773 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
6775 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
6776 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
6777 whether the config options are bad or good.
6778 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
6779 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
6780 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
6781 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
6782 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
6783 result more than once.
6784 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
6785 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
6786 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
6787 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
6788 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
6789 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
6790 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
6791 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
6792 before we check for libevent.
6793 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
6794 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
6795 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
6796 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
6797 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
6798 recommendation system saner.)
6799 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
6800 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
6801 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
6802 now universal binaries.
6803 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
6804 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
6806 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
6808 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
6809 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
6810 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
6811 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
6812 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
6813 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
6815 o Minor features, controller:
6816 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
6817 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
6818 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
6820 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
6821 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
6822 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
6823 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
6824 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
6825 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
6826 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
6828 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
6829 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
6830 connected or resolved cell.
6831 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
6832 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
6833 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
6834 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
6835 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
6836 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
6837 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
6839 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
6840 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
6841 entry guard status as it changes.
6842 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
6843 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
6844 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
6845 watching for STREAM events.
6846 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
6847 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
6848 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
6849 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
6851 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
6852 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
6853 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
6854 working much like those for circuit events.
6855 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
6856 about the current status of a router.
6857 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
6858 a router's status has changed.
6859 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
6860 can tell which events and features are supported.
6861 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
6862 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
6863 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
6864 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
6865 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
6866 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
6867 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
6868 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
6869 for more information.
6870 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
6871 best guess to the user.
6872 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
6873 descriptor has changed.
6874 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
6875 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
6876 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
6878 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
6879 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
6880 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
6881 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
6882 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
6883 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
6884 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
6885 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
6886 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
6887 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
6888 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
6890 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
6891 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
6893 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
6894 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
6895 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
6897 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
6898 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
6899 the controller from learning about current events.
6900 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
6901 reported by Mike Perry.
6902 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
6903 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
6904 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
6905 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
6906 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
6907 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
6908 long nicknames where appropriate.
6909 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
6910 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
6912 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
6913 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
6914 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
6915 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
6916 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
6918 o Minor features, code performance:
6919 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
6920 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
6921 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
6923 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
6924 some profiles, but not others.)
6925 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
6926 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
6927 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
6928 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
6929 operations, for profiling.
6930 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
6931 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
6932 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
6933 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
6934 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
6935 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
6936 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
6937 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
6939 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
6940 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
6941 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
6942 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
6943 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
6944 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
6945 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
6946 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
6947 family lists conveniently.
6949 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
6950 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
6951 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
6952 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
6953 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
6954 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
6955 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
6956 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
6957 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
6958 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
6959 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
6960 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
6961 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
6962 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
6963 of it), is not therefore "up".
6965 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
6966 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
6967 what version a router is running.
6968 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
6969 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
6970 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
6971 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
6973 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
6974 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
6975 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
6976 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
6977 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
6980 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
6981 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
6982 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
6984 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
6985 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
6987 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
6988 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
6989 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
6990 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
6991 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
6992 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
6993 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
6994 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
6995 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
6996 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
6998 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
6999 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
7000 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
7001 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
7002 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
7003 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
7004 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
7005 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
7006 get one we don't recognize.
7009 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
7010 o Security bugfixes:
7011 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
7012 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
7013 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
7014 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
7018 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
7019 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
7020 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
7023 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
7025 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
7026 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
7027 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
7028 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
7029 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
7030 its circuits on demand.
7031 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
7032 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
7033 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
7034 connections more stable on average.
7035 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
7036 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
7037 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
7039 o Security bugfixes:
7040 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
7041 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
7044 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
7046 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
7047 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
7048 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
7049 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
7050 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
7051 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
7052 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
7053 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
7056 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
7058 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
7059 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
7060 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
7061 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
7062 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
7063 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
7064 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
7065 it can't resolve its hostname.
7066 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
7067 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
7068 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
7071 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
7072 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
7073 "extendcircuit" request.
7074 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
7075 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
7076 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
7077 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
7079 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
7080 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
7081 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
7083 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
7084 methods: these are known to be buggy.
7085 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
7086 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
7090 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
7092 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
7093 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
7094 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
7095 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
7096 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
7097 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
7098 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
7099 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
7100 test reachability, so you won't publish.
7103 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
7104 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
7105 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
7106 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
7107 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
7109 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
7110 own server descriptor yet.
7113 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
7115 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
7116 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
7117 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
7118 make sure to test via one of these.
7119 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
7120 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
7121 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
7122 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
7123 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
7125 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
7126 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
7127 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
7130 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
7131 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
7132 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
7133 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
7134 directory authority.
7135 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
7136 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
7137 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
7138 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
7141 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
7142 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
7143 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
7145 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
7146 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
7147 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
7148 current guards when picking a new guard.
7149 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
7150 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
7151 when we had more than one pending.
7152 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
7153 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
7154 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
7155 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
7156 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
7157 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
7158 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
7159 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
7160 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
7161 debug the reachability problems better.
7163 o Log / documentation fixes:
7164 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
7165 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
7166 about protocol violations by others.
7167 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
7168 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
7169 about what happened to our old torrc.
7172 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
7173 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
7174 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
7175 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
7176 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
7177 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
7179 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
7180 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
7181 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
7182 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
7183 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
7184 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
7185 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
7186 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
7187 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
7188 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
7189 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
7190 on malicious huge inputs.
7192 o Security fixes, major:
7193 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
7194 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
7195 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
7196 misreading their logs.
7197 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
7198 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
7199 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
7200 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
7201 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
7202 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
7203 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
7204 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
7205 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
7206 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
7207 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
7208 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
7209 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
7210 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
7212 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
7213 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
7214 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
7215 firewall options forbid.
7216 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
7217 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
7218 can only proxy to certain destinations.
7219 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
7220 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
7221 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
7223 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
7224 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
7225 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
7226 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
7227 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
7228 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
7229 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
7230 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
7231 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
7232 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
7233 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
7234 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
7235 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
7237 o Security fixes, minor:
7238 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
7239 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
7241 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
7242 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
7243 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
7244 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
7245 if we've not heard of a server.
7246 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
7247 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
7248 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
7249 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
7250 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
7251 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
7252 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
7253 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
7254 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
7255 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
7256 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
7257 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
7258 aids some statistical attacks.
7259 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
7260 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
7261 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
7262 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
7263 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
7264 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
7265 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
7266 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
7269 o Packaging improvements:
7270 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
7271 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
7272 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
7273 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
7274 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
7275 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
7277 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
7278 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
7279 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
7280 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
7281 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
7282 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
7284 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
7285 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
7286 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
7288 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
7289 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
7290 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
7291 They are useless now.
7292 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
7293 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
7294 is reachable by you.
7295 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
7298 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
7299 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
7300 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
7301 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
7302 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
7303 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
7304 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
7305 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
7306 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
7307 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
7308 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
7309 and isolating attacks better.
7310 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
7311 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
7312 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
7313 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
7314 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
7315 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
7316 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
7317 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
7318 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
7319 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
7320 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
7322 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
7323 can answer v2 directory requests too.
7324 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
7325 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
7326 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
7327 mirrors still cache and serve it).
7328 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
7329 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
7330 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
7331 for clients and for servers.
7332 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
7333 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
7334 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
7335 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
7336 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
7337 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
7338 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
7339 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
7340 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
7341 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
7342 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
7344 o Other directory improvements:
7345 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
7346 fifth authoritative directory servers.
7347 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
7348 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
7349 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
7351 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
7352 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
7353 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
7354 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
7355 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
7356 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
7358 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
7359 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
7360 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
7361 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
7362 connections more reliable.
7363 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
7364 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
7365 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
7366 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
7367 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
7368 we fail to connect).
7369 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
7371 o Controller protocol improvements:
7372 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
7373 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
7374 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
7375 applications without caring how our protocol works.
7376 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
7377 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
7378 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
7379 many bytes we've used in this time period.
7380 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
7381 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
7382 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
7383 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
7384 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
7385 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
7386 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
7387 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
7388 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
7389 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
7391 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
7392 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
7393 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
7394 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
7395 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
7396 a router in its role as directory authority.
7397 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
7398 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
7399 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
7400 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
7401 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
7402 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
7403 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
7404 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
7405 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
7406 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
7407 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
7408 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
7409 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
7410 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
7411 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
7412 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
7413 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
7414 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
7416 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
7417 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
7418 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
7419 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
7420 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
7421 just tell them to go read their logs.
7423 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
7424 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
7425 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
7426 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
7427 try to be a bit more fair.
7428 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
7429 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
7430 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
7431 and we're using a default DirPort.
7432 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
7433 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
7434 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
7435 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
7436 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
7437 services faster on the service end.
7438 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
7440 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
7441 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
7442 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
7443 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
7444 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
7445 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
7446 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
7447 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
7448 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
7449 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
7450 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
7451 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
7452 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
7453 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
7454 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
7455 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
7456 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
7457 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
7458 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
7459 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
7460 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
7461 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
7462 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
7463 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
7464 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
7466 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
7467 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
7468 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
7469 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
7470 so we can be backward-compatible.
7471 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
7472 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
7473 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
7474 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
7475 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
7476 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
7477 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
7478 initial descriptor forever.
7479 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
7480 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
7481 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
7482 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
7483 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
7484 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
7485 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
7486 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
7487 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
7488 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
7489 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
7490 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
7491 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
7492 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
7493 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
7494 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
7495 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
7496 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
7497 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
7498 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
7499 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
7500 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
7501 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
7502 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
7503 ports that have changed.
7504 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
7505 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
7506 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
7507 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
7508 connections once a week.
7509 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
7510 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
7511 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
7512 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
7513 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
7514 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
7515 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
7516 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
7517 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
7518 able to discover them.
7519 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
7520 want to make it an NT service.
7521 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
7522 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
7523 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
7524 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
7525 memory leaks better.
7526 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
7527 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
7528 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
7529 statistics are now uint64_t's.
7530 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
7531 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
7532 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
7533 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
7534 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
7535 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
7536 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
7537 default ulimit -n is 1024.
7538 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
7539 and its existence is confusing some users.
7541 o Config option fixes:
7542 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
7543 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
7544 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
7545 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
7546 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
7547 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
7548 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
7549 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
7550 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
7552 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
7553 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
7554 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
7555 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
7556 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
7557 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
7558 it would silently ignore the 6668.
7559 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
7560 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
7561 silently resetting it to its default.
7562 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
7563 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
7564 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
7565 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
7566 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
7567 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
7568 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
7569 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
7570 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
7571 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
7572 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
7573 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
7574 Address config option.
7575 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
7576 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
7578 o Config option features:
7579 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
7580 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
7581 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
7582 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
7583 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
7585 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
7586 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
7587 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
7588 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
7589 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
7590 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
7591 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
7592 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
7593 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
7594 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
7595 in at least some cases.)
7596 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
7597 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
7598 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
7599 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
7600 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
7601 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
7602 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
7603 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
7604 even if we know they're jerks.
7605 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
7606 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
7607 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
7608 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
7609 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
7610 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
7611 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
7612 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
7613 because older Tors do not understand it.
7614 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
7615 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
7616 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
7617 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
7618 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
7619 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
7620 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
7621 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
7622 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
7623 unattached before we fail it?
7624 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
7625 at least this many seconds ago.
7626 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
7627 at least this many seconds ago.
7628 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
7629 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
7631 o Improved and clearer log messages:
7632 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
7633 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
7634 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
7636 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
7637 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
7638 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
7639 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
7640 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
7641 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
7642 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
7643 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
7644 temporarily unreachable.
7645 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
7646 Windows-style errno back.
7647 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
7648 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
7650 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
7651 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
7652 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
7653 exactly for this case.
7654 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
7655 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
7656 don't warn twice about the same name.
7657 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
7659 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
7660 it was self-testing that told us so.
7661 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
7662 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
7663 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
7664 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
7665 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
7666 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
7667 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
7668 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
7669 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
7670 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
7671 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
7672 established a circuit.
7673 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
7674 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
7675 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
7676 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
7677 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
7678 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
7679 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
7680 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
7681 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
7682 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
7683 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
7684 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
7685 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
7686 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
7687 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
7688 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
7689 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
7690 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
7691 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
7692 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
7693 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
7694 testing for reachability.
7695 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
7696 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
7698 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
7701 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
7702 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7703 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
7704 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
7706 o Other important bugfixes:
7707 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
7708 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
7709 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
7710 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
7712 o Backported features:
7713 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
7714 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
7715 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
7716 without getting overloaded.
7717 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
7718 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
7719 503's whenever they feel busy.
7720 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
7721 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
7722 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
7723 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
7724 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
7727 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
7728 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7729 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
7730 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
7731 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
7732 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
7733 too -- so detect and avoid this.
7734 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
7736 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
7737 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
7738 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
7739 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
7740 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
7741 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
7742 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
7743 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
7744 rendezvous circuits.
7745 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
7747 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7748 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
7749 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
7750 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
7751 advertising it because of hibernation.
7752 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
7753 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
7754 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
7755 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
7756 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
7757 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
7758 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
7759 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
7760 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
7761 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
7762 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
7763 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
7764 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
7765 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
7766 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
7769 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
7770 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7771 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
7772 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
7773 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
7774 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
7775 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
7776 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
7777 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
7778 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
7779 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
7780 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
7781 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
7782 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
7783 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
7786 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
7787 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7788 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
7790 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
7791 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
7794 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
7795 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7796 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
7797 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
7798 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
7799 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
7800 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
7802 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
7803 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
7807 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
7808 o New directory servers:
7809 - tor26 has changed IP address.
7811 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7812 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
7813 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
7815 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
7816 claims its dirport is 0.
7817 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
7818 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
7822 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
7823 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
7824 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
7825 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
7826 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
7827 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
7828 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
7829 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
7832 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
7834 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
7835 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
7836 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
7837 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
7838 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
7839 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
7840 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
7841 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
7842 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
7844 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
7845 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
7847 o Assert / crash bugs:
7848 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
7849 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
7850 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
7852 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
7853 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
7854 TLS errors better in other situations too.
7855 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
7856 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
7859 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
7860 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
7861 duplicate ram over time.
7862 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
7863 reentry and threadsafeness.
7864 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
7865 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
7866 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
7868 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
7869 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
7870 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
7871 point at your Tor server.
7872 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
7874 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
7875 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
7878 o Protocol correctness:
7879 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
7880 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
7881 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
7882 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
7883 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
7884 to abandon partially built circuits.
7885 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
7886 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
7887 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
7888 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
7889 descriptors we just dropped.
7890 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
7891 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
7892 and to take errno into account where possible.
7893 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
7894 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
7895 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
7896 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
7898 o Robustness improvements:
7899 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
7900 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
7901 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
7903 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
7904 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
7905 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
7906 that will want high uptime circuits.
7907 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
7908 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
7909 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
7910 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
7911 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
7912 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
7913 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
7914 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
7915 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
7916 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
7917 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
7918 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
7919 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
7920 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
7921 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
7922 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
7923 for google.com" problem.
7924 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
7925 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
7926 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
7927 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
7928 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
7931 o Reachability testing.
7932 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
7933 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
7934 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
7935 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
7936 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
7937 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
7938 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
7939 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
7940 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
7941 already connected to them.
7942 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
7946 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
7947 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
7948 nickname+key are allowed.
7949 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
7950 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
7951 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
7952 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
7953 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
7954 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
7955 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
7956 have quite wrong clocks).
7957 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
7958 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
7959 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
7960 their descriptors are being rejected.
7962 o Efficiency improvements:
7963 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
7964 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
7965 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
7966 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
7967 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
7968 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
7969 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
7970 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
7971 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
7972 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
7974 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
7975 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
7976 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
7977 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
7978 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
7979 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
7980 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
7981 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
7982 of CPU time plus memory.
7983 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
7984 directory every time you regenerate it.
7985 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
7986 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
7987 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
7988 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
7989 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
7990 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
7991 lowercase when you first see them.
7994 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
7995 hidden services better.
7996 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
7997 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
7998 when we try to launch one.
7999 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
8000 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
8001 attempts to build a circuit.
8002 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
8003 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
8004 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
8005 normal web requests.
8008 - More Tor controller support. See
8009 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
8010 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
8011 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
8012 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
8013 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
8014 to make it easier to write controllers.
8015 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
8016 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
8017 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
8018 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
8019 new log event types.
8021 o New config options/defaults:
8022 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
8023 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
8024 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
8025 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
8026 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
8028 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
8030 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
8031 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
8032 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
8033 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
8034 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
8036 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
8037 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
8038 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
8039 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
8040 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
8041 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
8042 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
8043 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
8044 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
8045 required exit node for certain sites.
8046 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
8047 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
8048 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
8049 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
8050 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
8051 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
8052 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
8053 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
8054 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
8056 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
8057 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
8058 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
8059 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
8060 private-IP addresses.
8061 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
8062 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
8063 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
8064 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
8065 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
8066 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
8067 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
8068 is valid without actually launching Tor.
8070 o Logging improvements:
8071 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
8072 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
8073 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
8074 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
8076 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
8077 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
8078 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
8079 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
8080 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
8081 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
8082 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
8083 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
8084 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
8086 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
8088 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
8089 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
8090 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
8091 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
8092 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
8093 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
8095 o New contrib scripts:
8096 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
8097 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
8099 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
8100 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
8101 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
8102 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
8103 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
8104 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
8106 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
8107 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
8108 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
8109 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
8113 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
8114 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
8115 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
8116 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
8117 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
8118 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
8119 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
8121 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
8122 something more reasonable when first installing.
8123 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
8124 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
8125 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
8126 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
8128 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
8129 artificially capped at 500kB.
8130 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
8132 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
8133 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
8134 they could use instead.
8135 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
8136 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
8137 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
8138 the user asks you to.
8141 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
8142 rather than just rejecting it.
8143 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
8144 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
8145 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
8146 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
8147 rather than just "success" or "failure".
8148 - A more sane version numbering system. See
8149 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
8150 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
8151 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
8152 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
8153 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
8154 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
8156 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
8157 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
8158 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
8159 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
8161 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
8162 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
8164 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
8165 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
8166 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
8167 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
8169 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
8170 whether the server is hibernating.
8173 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
8174 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
8175 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
8176 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
8177 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
8181 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
8182 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
8183 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
8184 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
8185 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
8188 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
8189 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
8190 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
8191 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
8192 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
8193 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
8194 busy for more than 100 seconds.
8197 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
8198 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
8199 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
8200 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
8201 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
8202 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
8203 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
8204 creating actual system users.
8205 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
8206 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
8210 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
8211 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
8212 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
8213 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
8214 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
8215 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
8216 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
8217 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
8218 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
8219 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
8220 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
8221 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
8222 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
8223 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
8224 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
8226 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
8227 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
8228 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
8229 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
8230 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
8231 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
8232 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
8233 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
8234 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
8235 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
8236 existing torrc files.
8237 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
8240 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
8241 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
8242 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
8243 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
8244 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
8245 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
8246 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
8247 the win32 SYSTEM account.
8248 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
8249 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
8250 file descriptors available.
8251 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
8252 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
8253 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
8256 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
8257 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
8258 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
8259 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
8261 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
8262 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
8263 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
8264 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
8265 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
8267 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
8268 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
8269 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
8270 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
8271 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
8272 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
8273 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
8274 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
8275 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
8276 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
8277 800kB/s of capacity.
8278 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
8281 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
8282 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
8283 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
8284 need as much processor time.
8285 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
8286 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
8287 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
8288 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
8289 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
8290 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
8291 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
8292 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
8293 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
8294 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
8295 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
8296 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
8298 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
8299 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
8300 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
8301 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
8302 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
8303 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
8304 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
8307 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
8308 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
8309 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
8311 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
8312 style address, then we'd crash.
8313 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
8314 a dirserver is broken.
8315 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
8317 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
8318 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
8319 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
8321 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
8322 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
8323 name out of the warning/assert messages.
8324 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
8325 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
8326 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
8328 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
8329 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
8330 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
8332 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
8334 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
8335 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
8336 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
8337 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
8338 values at once couldn't work.
8339 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
8340 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
8341 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
8342 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
8343 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
8344 they can handle any number of routers.
8345 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
8346 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
8347 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
8348 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
8349 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
8350 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
8351 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
8352 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
8353 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
8356 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
8357 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
8358 - Make hibernation actually work.
8359 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
8360 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
8361 don't use the stream status code.
8364 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
8365 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
8366 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
8367 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
8368 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
8369 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
8370 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
8371 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
8372 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
8373 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
8374 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
8375 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
8378 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
8379 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
8380 win32 socket errors better.
8381 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
8382 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
8383 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
8384 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
8386 - Make unit tests work on win32.
8388 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
8389 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
8390 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
8391 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
8392 right after sending the begin cell.
8393 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
8394 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
8395 exit nodes too. Oops.
8396 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
8397 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
8398 the user would get no response.
8399 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
8400 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
8401 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
8403 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
8404 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
8405 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
8406 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
8407 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
8409 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
8410 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
8411 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
8412 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
8413 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
8414 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
8415 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
8416 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
8417 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
8418 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
8419 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
8421 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
8422 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
8423 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
8424 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
8425 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
8426 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
8427 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
8428 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
8429 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
8430 so we don't see those messages days later.
8431 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
8432 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
8434 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
8435 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
8436 they ran out of file descriptors.
8437 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
8438 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
8439 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
8440 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
8442 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
8443 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
8444 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
8445 the ones we find in directories.)
8446 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
8447 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
8448 if you don't want it open.
8449 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
8450 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
8451 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
8452 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
8453 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
8454 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
8456 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
8457 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
8459 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
8461 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
8462 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
8464 o Features (circuits and streams):
8465 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
8466 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
8467 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
8468 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
8469 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
8470 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
8471 the user knows which one it's talking about.
8472 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
8473 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
8474 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
8475 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
8476 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
8478 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
8480 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
8481 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
8482 to fill the last cell completely.
8483 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
8484 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
8486 o Features (bandwidth):
8487 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
8488 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
8489 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
8490 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
8491 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
8492 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
8493 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
8494 your billing cycle starts on.
8495 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
8496 hibernation properties by
8497 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
8498 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
8499 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
8500 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
8501 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
8503 o Features (directories):
8504 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
8505 nickname to its identity key.
8506 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
8507 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
8508 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
8509 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
8510 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
8512 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
8513 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
8515 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
8516 will be able to get a directory.
8517 - Http proxy support
8518 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
8519 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
8520 be routed through this host.
8521 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
8522 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
8523 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
8524 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
8525 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
8526 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
8528 o Features (packages and install):
8529 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
8530 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
8531 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
8532 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
8533 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
8534 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
8535 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
8536 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
8537 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
8538 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
8541 o Features (ui controller):
8542 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
8543 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
8544 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
8545 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
8546 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
8547 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
8548 with the control port.
8549 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
8550 use in authenticating to the control interface.
8551 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
8552 configuration to torrc.
8553 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
8554 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
8555 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
8557 o Features (config and command-line):
8558 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
8559 not on the command line.
8560 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
8562 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
8563 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
8564 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
8565 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
8566 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
8567 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
8568 - New log format in config:
8569 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
8570 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
8571 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
8572 from their dirserver.
8573 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
8575 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
8576 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
8577 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
8578 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
8579 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
8580 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
8581 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
8582 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
8583 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
8584 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
8585 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
8586 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
8587 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
8588 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
8589 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
8590 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
8591 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
8592 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
8593 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
8594 than once per minute.
8597 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
8598 get back to normal.)
8599 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
8600 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
8601 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
8602 log more informatively.
8603 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
8604 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
8605 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
8606 from each other, to hinder linkability.
8607 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
8608 them act more like real nodes.
8609 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
8610 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
8611 1024) file descriptors.
8612 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
8615 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
8617 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
8618 clients/servers with an open dirport.
8619 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
8620 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
8621 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
8622 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
8623 intermittent connections.
8624 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
8625 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
8627 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
8628 in reporting stats locally.
8629 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
8630 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
8631 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
8634 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
8636 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
8637 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
8638 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
8639 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
8640 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
8641 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
8642 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
8643 list to decide who's running.
8644 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
8645 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
8646 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
8647 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
8648 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
8649 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
8650 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
8651 for pointing out this bug.)
8652 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
8654 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
8655 don't put it into the client dns cache.
8656 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
8657 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
8658 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
8661 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
8662 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
8663 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
8664 hadn't heard of before.
8667 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
8668 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
8669 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
8670 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
8671 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
8672 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
8673 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
8674 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
8675 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
8676 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
8677 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
8678 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
8679 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
8680 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
8681 - Directory caching.
8682 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
8683 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
8684 directory they've pulled down.
8685 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
8686 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
8687 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
8688 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
8689 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
8690 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
8691 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
8693 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
8694 This isn't used yet.
8695 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
8696 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
8697 clients don't use this yet.)
8698 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
8699 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
8700 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
8701 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
8702 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
8703 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
8704 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
8705 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
8706 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
8707 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
8708 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
8709 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
8710 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
8711 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
8712 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
8713 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
8714 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
8715 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
8716 - File and name management:
8717 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
8718 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
8720 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
8721 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
8722 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
8723 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
8724 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
8725 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
8726 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
8728 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
8729 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
8730 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
8732 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
8733 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
8734 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
8735 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
8736 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
8737 - New docs in the tarball:
8739 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
8740 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
8741 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
8742 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
8743 know you might want to get it verified.
8744 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
8745 kazaa, gnutella ports.
8746 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
8747 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
8748 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
8749 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
8750 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
8751 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
8752 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
8754 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
8756 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
8757 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
8759 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
8760 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
8761 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
8764 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
8765 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
8766 ask them to resolve the host "".
8769 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
8770 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
8771 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
8774 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
8775 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
8776 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
8779 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
8780 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
8781 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
8782 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
8784 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
8785 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
8786 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
8788 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
8789 hidden service per 15-minute period.
8790 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
8791 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
8792 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
8793 o Fixes for security bugs:
8794 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
8795 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
8796 a trusted dirserver.
8798 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
8799 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
8800 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
8801 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
8802 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
8803 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
8804 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
8805 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
8806 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
8807 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
8809 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
8810 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
8811 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
8812 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
8813 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
8814 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
8816 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
8819 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
8820 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
8821 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
8822 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
8823 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
8824 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
8825 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
8826 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
8827 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
8828 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
8829 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
8830 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
8831 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
8832 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
8835 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
8836 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
8837 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
8838 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
8841 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
8842 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
8843 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
8844 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
8845 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
8846 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
8847 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
8851 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
8853 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
8854 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
8855 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
8856 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
8857 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
8858 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
8859 if you decrypted them correctly.
8860 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
8861 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
8862 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
8863 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
8864 in-memory directories too.
8865 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
8866 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
8867 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
8868 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
8869 just close the circ.
8870 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
8871 - Better debugging for tls errors
8872 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
8873 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
8875 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
8876 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
8877 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
8878 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
8879 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
8880 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
8881 it tells you about the first error.
8882 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
8883 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
8884 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
8885 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
8886 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
8887 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
8888 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
8889 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
8890 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
8891 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
8893 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
8894 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
8897 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
8898 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
8900 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
8901 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
8902 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
8903 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
8904 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
8905 expect it to have a nickname.
8906 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
8907 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
8908 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
8909 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
8910 the dns farm to do it.
8911 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
8912 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
8914 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
8915 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
8916 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
8917 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
8918 but that aren't warnings
8921 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
8922 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
8926 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
8927 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
8928 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
8929 - include missing header fcntl.h
8930 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
8931 - deal with hardware word alignment
8932 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
8933 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
8934 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
8935 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
8936 by kill -USR1 currently.
8937 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
8938 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
8939 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
8942 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
8943 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
8944 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
8947 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
8949 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
8950 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
8951 - And fix a few endian issues.
8954 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
8956 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
8957 try that circuit again: try a new one.
8958 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
8959 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
8960 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
8961 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
8962 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
8963 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
8965 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
8966 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
8967 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
8969 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
8971 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
8972 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
8973 side isn't reading right then.
8974 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
8976 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
8977 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
8978 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
8981 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
8983 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
8984 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
8987 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
8991 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
8993 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
8994 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
8995 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
8996 connection is finished.
8997 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
8998 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
8999 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
9000 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
9001 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
9002 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
9003 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
9004 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
9005 rather than warn and continue.
9006 - Make --version work
9007 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
9010 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
9012 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
9014 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
9015 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
9017 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
9018 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
9019 so you can collect coredumps there.
9021 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
9022 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
9023 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
9024 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
9025 dns cache actually gets populated.
9026 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
9027 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
9028 end cell down it first.
9029 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
9030 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
9033 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
9035 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
9036 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
9038 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
9039 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
9040 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
9041 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
9042 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
9043 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
9045 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
9047 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
9048 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
9049 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
9050 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
9051 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
9052 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
9054 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
9055 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
9058 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
9060 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
9061 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
9062 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
9063 tor. It even has a man page.
9064 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
9065 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
9066 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
9067 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
9069 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
9071 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
9074 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
9076 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
9078 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
9079 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
9080 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
9081 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
9082 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
9083 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
9084 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
9085 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
9086 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
9087 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
9088 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
9090 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
9091 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
9094 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
9096 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
9097 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
9100 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
9102 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
9103 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
9104 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
9105 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
9106 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
9107 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
9108 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
9109 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
9110 logfile so you know it's working.
9111 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
9112 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
9115 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
9117 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
9118 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
9119 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
9122 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
9124 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
9125 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
9126 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
9129 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
9130 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
9131 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
9133 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
9134 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
9136 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
9137 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
9138 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
9140 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
9141 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
9145 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
9147 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
9148 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
9149 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
9152 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
9153 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
9154 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
9155 - Add port ranges to exit policies
9156 - Add a conservative default exit policy
9157 - Warn if you're running tor as root
9158 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
9159 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
9160 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
9161 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
9163 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
9166 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
9167 o Robustness and bugfixes:
9168 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
9169 really screw things up.
9170 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
9172 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
9173 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
9175 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
9176 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
9177 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
9178 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
9179 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
9180 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
9183 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
9186 - Change default loglevel to warn.
9187 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
9188 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
9190 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
9193 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
9194 o Robustness and bugfixes:
9195 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
9196 - to get ownership/permissions right
9197 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
9198 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
9199 pull down a directory again
9200 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
9201 causing server crashes
9202 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
9203 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
9204 - exit if bind() fails
9205 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
9206 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
9207 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
9208 - fix minor bias in PRNG
9209 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
9212 - Wrote the design document (woo)
9214 o Circuit building and exit policies:
9215 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
9217 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
9218 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
9219 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
9220 exists, rather than failing
9221 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
9222 which AP connections are standing by
9223 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
9224 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
9225 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
9227 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
9228 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
9231 - APPort is now called SocksPort
9232 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
9234 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
9235 hardcoded (for dirservers)
9236 - Reloads config on HUP
9237 - Usage info on -h or --help
9238 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
9240 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
9241 o General stability:
9242 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
9243 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
9244 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
9245 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
9246 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
9247 to take down the network when I approve a new router
9248 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
9251 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
9252 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
9254 o Autoconf improvements:
9255 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
9256 - Make install now works
9257 - create var/lib/tor on make install
9258 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
9259 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
9261 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
9262 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
9263 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
9264 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup